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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Clamor of Innocence Stories from Central America Barbara Paschke These stories taken together are an eye on Central America, focusing on the real lives and enduring passions of today's men and women. Here are tales from the quiet villages, from the urban vortex, from the field of battle... A Cock-Eyed Comedy Juan Goytisolo In A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain's history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity... Danger and Beauty Jessica Hagedorn Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience."Jessica Hagedorn is one of the best of a new generation of writers who are making American language new and who... Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose Chad Sweeney Raw, inspired testimony and work from the teachers of the National WritersCorps Death In Troy Bilge Karasu A young man growing up in a small coastal village comes of age in an atmosphere of sublimated, disoriented male eroticism. Governed by religious and sexual taboos, rigid gender roles, stifling maternal love, and the enforced silences of social... Distance No Object Stories Gloria Frym Gloria Frym turns her ironic, passionate gaze to 1990s post-Vietnam Berkeley and San Francisco."Frym turns an unflinching eye on human interaction, capturing casual and intimate exchanges between strangers on trains, estranged husbands and wives, and... The Dogs A Modern Bestiary Rebecca Brown The nameless narrator of The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary lives in her studio apartment with a pack of Doberman pinchers. The dogs, led by the cruel, charismatic bitch named Miss Dog, alternate between being brutal attack animals and loyal companions... Dust on Her Tongue Rodrigo Rey Rosa Set in Guatemala, these spare and beautiful tales are linked by themes of magic, violence, and the fragility of existence. Paul Bowle's translation perfectly captures Rey Rosa's stories of the haunted lives of ordinary people in present-day Central... Elements of a Coffee Service Robert Glück In these narratives, Robert Glück takes essay, lyric, fable, gossip, and dismantles these traditional categories. With their parts he constructs stories where emotions find release and events yield their meanings. The End of Youth Rebecca Brown The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of "Description of a... Ends and Beginnings City Lights Review No. 6 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Robert Anbian, Amiri Baraka, Alberto Blanco, William S. Burroughs, Andrei Codrescu, Susan Etlinger, Dario Fo, Barry Gifford, J.T. Gillett, Allen Ginsberg, Howard Hart, Elaine Katzenberger, Phillip M. Klasky, Steve Kowit, James Laughlin, D.H. Lawrence... Entering Fire Rikki Ducornet This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle... Eros Anti-Eros Harold Jaffe Eros collides with Anti-Eros in these menacingly comic fictions in which physical love and desire are policed by a high-tech, militarist, media-manipulated society. The calculated silences and disinformation surrounding the AIDS epidemic... Ether Ben Ehrenreich An Earth-bound god whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>