Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
10 best books like Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries (Dennis Cooper): Giovanni’s Room, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Cruddy, Complete Works, Borderlands 1, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Lanark, Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0141186356 |
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Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an...
| Author | David Peace |
| ISBN | 1852427442 |
The bodies, the corpses, the alleys and the wasteland, the dirty men, the broken women.
Wow, this is stunning. Literally. It's like being bludgeoned over the head by a cascade of bloody and relentless grimness. BUT all this violence, this brutality, this hate and corruption, betrayal and greed...
On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write.
Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling...
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 0060955503 |
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen.
This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the...
| Author | Thomas F. Monteleone |
| ISBN | 1565041070 |
Borderlands is a horror anthology series not concerned with traditional elements of horror fiction. Borderlands is about breaking the mold and pushing the genre and its finest writers to the edge. Hailed as the anthology series of the 90s, Borderlands will remind you that horror can indeed be horrific....
Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
| Author | Kenneth Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0231149913 |
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities...
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Inflated Footnotes: "Lanark - A Life in Four Books" by Alasdair Gray
(Original Review, 1981-03-10)
I don't have problem with intertextual interpretation as such. It's only that...
| Author | William T. Vollmann |
| ISBN | 1560254416 |
William T. Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers. Masterworks such as You Bright and Risen Angels, The Royal Family, and Rising Up and Rising Down—his latest work, a stunning 3,300-page tour-de-force—have launched him into the literary stratosphere. He stands today as one of America's...
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
| Author | Timothy Morton |
| ISBN | 0816689237 |
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global...
| Author | Lynne Tillman |
| ISBN | 1935869213 |
Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches limits of genre and category, reconfiguring the world with the turn of a sentence. Like other unique...
William Eggleston's Guide
| Author | William Eggleston |
| ISBN | 0870703781 |
William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography,...
