Microscripts

Author	Russell Hoban
ISBN	0253212340

Fionnuala wrote: "Ah, you wouldn't be 'fixing' it, not, but you know that of course!
No, you'd be doing an interesting exercise for yourself, maybe for me who'd be curious to read your 'transliteration', even a pag..."

Alan is sure it would be ruined but he's a writer, who aren't necessarily...

Author	Robert McCrum
ISBN	0142002313

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English—from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to...

Author

Anne Carson

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red...

Author	Virginia Woolf
ISBN	0140185682

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist...

Author	Félix Fénéon
ISBN	1590172302

A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL

Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This...

Author	Renee Gladman
ISBN	1940696275

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." —Eileen Myles

A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original...