Following the immense success of "The Art of the Tale", Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers -- those born after 1937, which combines the best of the established masters as well as the fresh, new voices of writers whose work has seldom been translated into English.
A collection of contemporary one-act plays and monologues, including works by Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson, Eudora Welty, Amiri Baraka, Richard Ford, Vaclav Havel, Tina Howe, and over 30 more.
A dazzling collection and already a standard reference for those interested in contemporary drama, Plays in One Act is a unique compilation of plays and monologues that showcases a stunning and diverse array of work from some of the most important voices in theater. Forty-three modern works are collected here: from plays by important contemporary ...
This international anthology of contemporary short stories brings together the work of 78 writers born after 1938. With stories from 35 countries, the collection combines established authors with the fresh, new voices of the writing world.
'Proust on Chardin, Sartre on Tintoretto, Huxley on El Greco, Hemingway on Miro--writers discussing painters hold the irresistible promise of insight beyond formal analysis, interpretation beyond conventional art history....The essays...form a strong history of art...a pointillist history of stories and apercus and ruminations.' --New York Times ...
Borges On Writing In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, ...
This collection of lyrics includes a number of poems about the poet's baby daughter, as well as some about his wife. Some of the poems are also inspired by Arabic poetry ("After Rumi" and "Triadic Ghazal"), perhaps reflecting the author's experiences in Morocco, where he has spent some time.
Bringing together twenty-two writers to discuss eating as more than simple sustenance, editor Daniel Halpern writes in his introduction, this collection is about 'Eating our slice of daily bread, but not for the intake of that slice alone.' These writers reveal the curiosity, romance, faith, and insight that can be as much a part of a meal as any ...
It is a rare occasion that readers are given privileged information (however tongue-in-cheek) about the identities of their favorite authors, still rarer to meet their guises in the same place. Who's Writing This is a writer's and reader's delight, a joyous and eloquent spoof on self-knowledge and expression by the best in the business.
This generous collection of cat-inspired stories and poems, compiled by Joyce Carol Oates, includes contributions by Chekhov, Wodehouse, Saki, Colette, Poe, Twain, Hemingway, Updike, LeGuin, Keats, Dickinson, Eliot, Faulkner, and Oates herself--among many more.
Excerpts from the diaries of such writers as Paul Bowles, Guy Davenport, Lawrence Durrell, Gretel Ehrlich, M. F. K. Fisher, Mavis Gallant, Gail Godwin, Norman Mailer, V. S. Naipaul, Oliver Sacks, and many more.
*One of the best books of nature writing around* "Our lives spent in rooms, our imaginations and outlooks framed by windows - by concepts, logic, language - most of us continue to think of nature as a place to visit, wearing sunscreen and suitable protective clothing. Visitors in the museum of the great outdoors" This delightful anthology features ...
Edited by Daniel Halpern, this collection of essays joins 24 erudite writers who explore the limits of the autobiographical essay. It includes original pieces by Italo Calvino, Stanley Elkin, Nadine Gordimer, Edouard Roditi, Edmund White, Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Hardwick, R. K. Narayan, Derek Walcott, and others. Anecdotal, philosophical, ...
This first annotated edition of Bowles' later works offers the full range of his achievements and contains his masterpiece of travel writing, "Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue."
A collection of inspirational poems centers on a common theme of spiritual discovery and includes the works of William Blake, Ranier Maria Rilke, Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi, and fifteenth-century Hindu mystic Mirabai. Original National ad/promo.
The Good Food is the first single collection of recipes devoted to the celebration of the classics of casual cuisine. Betty Fussell, author of Masters of American Cookery, writes, "Anyone who loves roasted peppers, garlic, anchovies, lemons, olives, and dill can be grateful for this well-traveled guide through the good foodlands of the ...
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