The publisher has ordered an additional 50,000 copies of Fisher’s titles, including her memoirs, Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic, and her novels, Postcards from the Edge and The Best Awful.
“I was tired of introspection, tired of psychology,” says Knausgård, who started writing a letter to his unborn daughter, not knowing it would become a four volume book project following the seasons. Thus Knausgård moved his attention from the inner world to the outer, which resulted in four volumes of short essays on such things […]
If you have a passion, talent, or skill, like music, craft, painting, writing, sculpting, dancing, or acting – and if this is your purpose in life – then this book is a must-read.
Abegail Morley‘s work is complex, deeply felt, and haunted by absence. Hers is a fragile, wistful beauty, spoken in a voice that only matures and deepens with each new publication. Hers are messages in a bottle, issued from the quiet depths of a profound sensitivity–to language, to life, and loss. Her website The Poetry Shed […]
The complaints seem to fall into two categories: his views are repellent and shouldn’t be “supported” by a major publishing firm, and by giving him that much money, the publisher is depriving “more deserving authors” of money and publicity.
MW: There are so many underlying tropes and leitmotifs in Bad Mommy, some that run continuously through your entire oeuvre. We see the doppelganger, the foil, the alter ego, the Freudian parts of the psyche, schadenfreude, the villain (especially the female antagonist), motherhood, heartbreak and betrayal, the trickster. In this novel many of these archetypes […]
To most of us, we come across the kind of book we need whenever we are looking for that information. Like Emerson said, “The whole course of things goes on to teach us faith. We just have to obey. There is a guidance for each of us.” The cosmos always bring us into situations that […]
“That’s our trouble,” said my friend Roger, “everything used to be something else.” I had just told him about meeting my brothers and their families for the third Chanukah candle, 13 relatives in all, at a glatt kosher restaurant called Taam Tov in the Diamond District, on the very site of the legendary Gotham Book […]
