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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She's not just the award-winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and food history; not just a winner of the James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award who was inducted into their "Who's Who of American Food and Beverage" in 2009; and not just an extraordinary person whose fifty years' worth of essays on food, travel, and the arts have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied asThe New York Times,The New Yorker,The Los Angeles Times,Saveur, andVogue. This is a woman who at eighty-two years old (and despite being half-blind) went deer hunting for the very first time in the Montana foothills with her son, Sam (as described in her 2010 essay for theNew York Times Magazine.) She got her deer. This is a woman who declared in a 2005 essay for Vogue that she had to teach herself Latin and German from scratch (on top of teaching herself how to cook) as a young twenty-one year old bride, because "housewifery wasn't enough." Indeed, for Fussell one subject is never enough. Counterpoint is thrilled to be publishing this selected anthology of her diverse essays.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York Times, to be published just prior to opening?something to whet the theatergoers? appetites and to get the critics thinking. Many of these were collected in the 1978 volume Where I Live, which is now expanded by noted Williams scholar John S. Bak to include all of Williams? theater essays, biographical pieces, introductions and reviews. This volume also includes a few occasional pieces, program notes, and a discreet selection of juvenilia such as his 1927 essay published in Smart Set, which answers the question ?Can a good wife be a good sport?? Wonderful and candid stories abound in these essays?from erudite observations on the theater to veneration for great actresses. In ?Five Fiery Ladies? Williams describes his fascinated, deep appreciation of Vivien Leigh, Geraldine Page, Anna Magnani, Katharine Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor, all of whom created roles in stage or film versions of his plays. There are two tributes to his great friend Carson McCullers; reviews of Cocteau?s film Orpheus and of two novels by Paul Bowles; a portrait of Williams? longtime agent Audrey Wood; a salute to Tallulah Bankhead; a political statement from 1972, ?We Are Dissenters Now?; some hilarious stories in response to Elia Kazan?s frequent admonition, ?Tennessee, Never Talk to An Actress?; and Williams? most moving and astute autobiographical essay, ?The Man in the Overstuffed Chair.? Theater critic and essayist John Lahr has provided a terrific foreword which sheds further light on Tennessee Williams? writing process, always fueled by Williams? self-deprecating humor and his empathy for life?s nonconformists.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible.-Booklist.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Arguably one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer's writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg's books written over the course of Ginzburg's lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz. These essays are deeply felt, but also disarmingly accessible. Full of self-doubt and searing insight, Ginzburg is merciless in her attempts to describe herself and her world--and yet paradoxically, her self-deprecating remarks reveal her deeper confidence in her own eye and writing ability, as well as the weight and nuance of her exploration of the conflict between humane values and bureaucratic rigidity.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation  ?This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan?s poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinching witness to the turbulent social and political travails of his nation. With an acerbic tone that will seem familiar to admirers of Franz Wright or Charles Bukowski, Zhadan?s no-nonsense verses are sure to strike more than a few nerves.??World Literature Today  ?A startling collection of verse.??Askold Melnyczuk, Times Literary Supplement   ?Everyone can find something, if they only look carefully,? reads one of the memorable lines from this first collection of poems in English by the world?renowned Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems feature gutsy portraits of life on wartorn and poverty-ravaged streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, where mothers live with low expectations, and where romance lives like a remote memory. In the tradition of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs, Zhadan creates a new poetics of loss, a daily crusade of testimonial, a final witness of abandoned lives in a claustrophobic universe where ?every year there?s less and less air.? Yet despite the grimness of these portraits, Zhadan?s poems are familiar and enchanting, lit by the magic of everyday detail, leaving readers with a sense of hope, knowing that the will of a people ?will never let it be / like it was before..…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation  ?This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan?s poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinching witness to the turbulent social and political travails of his nation. With an acerbic tone that will seem familiar to admirers of Franz Wright or Charles Bukowski, Zhadan?s no-nonsense verses are sure to strike more than a few nerves.??World Literature Today  ?A startling collection of verse.??Askold Melnyczuk, Times Literary Supplement   ?Everyone can find something, if they only look carefully,? reads one of the memorable lines from this first collection of poems in English by the world?renowned Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems feature gutsy portraits of life on wartorn and poverty-ravaged streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, where mothers live with low expectations, and where romance lives like a remote memory. In the tradition of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs, Zhadan creates a new poetics of loss, a daily crusade of testimonial, a final witness of abandoned lives in a claustrophobic universe where ?every year there?s less and less air.? Yet despite the grimness of these portraits, Zhadan?s poems are familiar and enchanting, lit by the magic of everyday detail, leaving readers with a sense of hope, knowing that the will of a people ?will never let it be / like it was before..…