Poor Sailor
10 best books like Poor Sailor (Sammy Harkham): 84, Charing Cross Road, Sabrina, Big Bad Love, O Josephine!, My New York Diary, Beverly, Doppler, All of Us: The Collected Poems, Killing and Dying: Stories, The Lie And How We Told It
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 0140143505 |
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share...
Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’t...
How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression...
| Author | Larry Brown |
| ISBN | 0679734910 |
The whole world seemed to be trying to be decent, and I seemed an indecent thing in it.*
This one was recommended to me by my pal John, who described it as "... a two evening read filled with social misfits." Though I spend most of my evenings surrounded by social misfits, I decided to give a read...
| Author | Jason |
| ISBN | 1683962109 |
Jason has caught the hiking bug and decides to walk the Wicklow Way, where he encounters more sheep than he had bargained for. Leonard Cohen's storied life has been well archived, but never with so many Jason-esque liberties taken. (Did you know he beat Fidel Castro in chess? Learned the Heimlich from...
| Author | Julie Doucet |
| ISBN | 1896597831 |
THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINT
Back in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in...
| Author | Nick Drnaso |
| ISBN | 1770462252 |
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak.
A group of teenagers...
Otec dvoch detí jedného dňa spadne v lese z bicykla a zrazu zacíti pokoj a harmóniu. Už ho neotravujú nekonečné detské pesničky zo synových rozprávok, myšlienky na novú kúpeľňu a výber správnej záchodovej misy. O to viac si však uvedomí smrť svojho otca. Rozhodne sa odsťahovať...
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0375703802 |
This prodigiously rich collection of poems suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America’s finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical...
Killing and Dying: Stories
| Author | Adrian Tomine |
| ISBN | 1770462090 |
"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." —Wired
Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes...
The Lie And How We Told It
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. .
Kaunis värienkäyttö ja miellyttävän selkeä piirrostyyli vie mukaansa jo ennen kuin ensimmäistäkään repliikkiä on lausuttu. Tarina on mysteerinen ja johdattaa lukijan tulkitsemaan ja pohdiskelemaan sen alkua ja loppua, antamatta selkeitä vastauksia mihinkään. Silti, omituisella...
"Alexis Nolla es el mejor dibujante del planeta. Al hacer una afirmación de este tipo siento que todavía no estoy siendo lo suficientemente categórica: lo que más me gusta de estar viva en el siglo XXI es saber que Alexis Nolla está en su habitación dibujando" Conxita Herrero
Lo mejor...
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 1559700289 |
"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, "I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt...
| Author | Julie Doucet |
| ISBN | 1896597343 |
Julie and her deadbeat boyfriend move into a flat whose landlord is the cheerful Madame Paul. Besides her trying to set up Julie with her nephew, not much happens and then Madame Paul abruptly disappears. Julie sets out to find her.
This was included in the recent Humble Bundle for Banned Books...
Setembre, octubre i novembre
Les pàgines d’aquest llibre són tres mesos d’apunts al natural. Joan Miquel Oliver es converteix en l’ombra de Miquel Riera —escalador mallorquí i catalitzador d’una pràctica esportiva molt particular, el psicobloc— amb la primera intenció de fer-li una biografia. Molt enfora...
*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'*
What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark...
