The Best Cigarette

Author	Annie Proulx
ISBN	0743271327

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender...

Author	James Baldwin
ISBN	0525434690

To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving...

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0811201201

The work of Gogol—one of the very greatest of Russia's literary geniuses—has become fairly well known in America but has seldom been properly understood. There have been many bad, but a few good, translations of his work available in English, and critics have often tended to put labels on him, to...

Author	Dean Young
ISBN	0822958724

In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence.

Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea...

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James Joyce

Okuduğum ilk James Joyce eseri. Ulysses'i okumaya niyetlenmiş, okuyamamıştım. Sanırım nesirde epey farklı bir üslubu olacak ki her yerde karşıma "Ulysses üslubu"na göndermeler çıkmakta (bu eserin önsözü de dahil olmak üzere). Fakat çevirmenin de uyardığı gibi şiirlerde...

Author	Truman Capote
ISBN	0141184612

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also...

Author	Tony Hoagland
ISBN	1893003175

Poetry. Tony Hoagland's work grapples with the distortions of contemporary America and what it takes to remain human in these strange times. His wry, penetrating poems admired by Boomers and Millennials alike, restlessly seek to awaken us from our dream. Full of warm hearted cynicism, wild humor,...