Actress Mae West once said «I've been things and seen places.» Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast. In his latest collection of verse he takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through Amsterdam's antique streets and canals, Tuscany's sun-soaked landscapes, Paris's Gallic gabble of monuments and madcaps, and the title poem's Finnish auditory and aural delights. In one poem we p ...
Winner of the Colorado Book Award;Winner of the Willa Literary Award As heard on Public Radio International's The Writer's Almanac! Full of music and evocative word play, Veronica Patterson's Swan, What Shores? offers alluring poems varied in form and inventive in approach. In language that is both precise and lyrical, Patterson's work, like much of the best poetry, plumbs the human condition with depth, wit, and, above all ...
Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual period ...
The third in the Paperback L.A. series focusing on culture, people, humor, and zeitgeist of L.A.Editor is respected as a former magazine editor and communications chief for a prominent social-justice nonprofitFocus will be on smart, entertaining short pieces, not esoteric or archly «literary» (i.e., no poetry)A mix of famous names and quirky unknownsNetwork of contributors will help promote the bookEngaging photo essays will add color and visu ...
The second of a planned series of four books focusing on culture, people, humor, and zeitgeist of L.A.Editor is respected as a former magazine editor and communications chief for a prominent social-justice nonprofitFocus will be on smart, entertaining short pieces, not esoteric or archly «literary» (i.e., no poetry)A mix of famous names and quirky unknownsNetwork of contributors will help promote the bookEngaging photo essays will add color and ...
Paperback LA is a surprising and witty collection of some of the best writing ever about Los Angeles. More than a dozen major selections include new work and fresh discoveries: a radio broadcast, a ballad, a magazine article, excerpts from prizewinning novels and memoirs. These pieces are punctuated by perceptive photo essays, a quotable lineup of one-liners, and other quick hits. In the company of a virtuosic band of storytellers, Paperback ...
McInerney has won the James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing for his wine columns and has published three acclaimed books about wine: Bacchus and Me (which sold over 40k copies), A Hedonist in the Cellar , and The Juice: Vinous Veritas . Edited by Jay McInerney, a longtime and highly praised wine columnist (for Town & Country , Wall Street Journal , and House and Garden ), an entertaining and delectably literary anthol ...
<P>This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham, and shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-g ...
