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David Haynes
Martha's Daughter is David's first short story collection and the first time that David's stories have ever been assembled in one volume. The collection ranges from the magically real life…
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David Lazar
Stories of the Street is a series of imaginative meditations-through prose poems, short-short essays, microfictions, and prose pieces without precise genre distinction-of what it means to encounter lost or discarded…
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Robert Kalich
What happens when a husband has lived two lives and harbors a deep secret? Robert Kalich blurs the lines between memoir and fiction to tell a timeless story of love…
A sequence of prose poems about the ravages of love, how we desire it, and whether we care to recover.
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What it means to be occasionally aware that we are surviving by our wits, and that our desires, ulterior or obvious, are what keep us alive.
In this volume, David Lazar offers a detailed, humorous and touching recollection of his Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history -…
This collection of interviews captures the conversation of one of the most prominent prose writers in the Unites States. These interviews reveal her uncompromising and frequently contradictory attitudes toward the…
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Markets and Ideology in the City of London is a fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work and…
Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work…
Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions…
This collection of interviews manifests how filmmaker Michael Powell imagined himself simultaneously as a classic English gentleman and as a citizen of the world, making films with social conscience about…
Essays about the things we see that we can’t unsee and how we carry on in the wake of those moments.
Man up! Be a man! How many times have you heard it? The personal essays and poems in the anthology Being: What Makes a Man, edited by Jill McCabe Johnson…
Yahia Lababidi
Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect. In this follow-up to Lababidi’s first essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing…
This book brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary…
David Hine,Emily Lazar,Mariah McCourt
Contains September Mourning #1-4 –Indicia.
The past and the truth are slippery things, and the art of nonfiction writing requires the writer to shape as well as explore. In personal essays, meditations on the nature…
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live…
Patrick Madden,Michel Montaigne
