Happy LGBTQIA Pride Month! Sara here. I've lived in Houston for ten years (ten!) now, and I'll never forget the looping drive I took around 610 to arrive at my new apartment in the quintissential fug of polluted...
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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."
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$16.95
The cursed lineage of Uganda's mythological first man parallels the African nation's history in this epic debut novel from the nascent Transit Books press. Spanning centuries and centering on the collision of tradition and modernity, KINTU is destined to become a contemporary classic of world literature. Stellar!
$26.95
In a single night, amidst a haze of opium smoke, musicologist Franz Ritter reflects on memory and dreams and his lifelong fascination with the Middle East. As beautiful as it is intellectual, this powerful narrative manages to blend the East and the West, focusing on cultural figures from the past two hundred years amidst myriad other subjects. Enard's novel has been shortlisted for the Booker International Prize and for obvious reason. An ideal novel for fans of W.G. Sebald and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
Full disclosure: Lawrence is my buddy from MFA school days--but even if he weren’t, I’d be wild about his debut book of smartypants essays with heart. Lawrence writes vividly about personal history, pets--including, um, improper acts with dogs--and Greek mythology, all with pathos and humor. This is the work of a brilliant mind, one that explores the world in surprising and inventive ways.
Will is a PhD student getting his degree in film studies when he finds out a horror film is being made of a terrifying experience he had as a young adult. Forced to undergo gay conversion camp run by his mother's younger sister, he and four other boys made an attempted escape – to disastrous effect. Now an adult, he must confront his childhood at the camp while parsing through the stories of his mother's backwoods family. Is the grisly slasher an exploitative excuse for a resurgence of gay bashing? Or is it a queer-authored reclamation of the hateful violence he and the four other boys underwent? And what ever happened to the other boys? This book is a wonderfully multi-layered debut that rethinks agency in the narrative of queer violence.
The essays of Eliot Weinberger are typically not what one thinks of when one thinks "essay". He is a master of taking the traditional essay form and turning it on its head to great effect.
The first section of this book collects his essays that make up AN ELEMENTAL THING. Part prose, part poetry, these essays explore the mystical and ethereal. With great pith, Weinberger explores the mythologies, elements, and histories of humankind. His writing is all at once simple and ornate, giving the reader a sense of cosmic moodiness and curiosity.
The second half of the book collects Weinberger's more traditional essays. A definite highlight is his scathing review of George W. Bush's memoir Decision Points.
I can not recommend this collection enough. Beautifully written, witty, and wry, these essays are sure to imbue the reader with an understanding of human history unlike anything I've ever read.
Quips & Quotes
Reading rebels against the managed world of information and the chaotic world of data. Reading is meaning.
-- Jeanette Winterson