Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme
9 best books like Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme (Donald Barthelme): Les Fleurs du Mal, Bone: The Complete Edition, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew, Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown, Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology, Introduction to Phenomenology, Thomas the Obscure, H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
Bone: The Complete Edition
An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300 page epic from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback.
Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, spending a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. After being run out of Boneville,...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0933377460 |
I'm pretty skeptical of books on writing, if only because everyone seems to have written one. And so many of them come at you with flashy promises: "Sell Your Novel In Thirty Days!"
Prior to having read LeGuin's "Steering the Craft," I relied on three books, more or less:
1. Strunk and...
| Author | Leszek KoĊakowski |
| ISBN | 0393060543 |
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this 'prophetic work' presents, according to the Library of Congress, 'the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure,...
What can I say? This is a must-have book for anyone who wants ALL their lit theory bases covered. This collection culls short stories and excerpts from novels and culminates with a section on postmodernist theory itself. My favorites so far are the stories from Walter Abish, David Foster Wallace, Ishmael...
| Author | Dermot Moran |
| ISBN | 0415183731 |
Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.
Written...
| Author | Maurice Blanchot |
| ISBN | 0882680765 |
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing...
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1435122968 |
Here is the complete collection of fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Stories included are:
The Nameless City
The Festival
The Colour Out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Haunter...
