Dos Passos: A collection of critical essays (Twentieth century views)

HOOK, ANDREW

Literature & Fiction

PRENTICE/HALL

1980, mass market paperback reprint edition (of a work first published in 1814), includes information on the author and other introductory material, Penguin, NY. 608 pages. This was Scott's first novel and was enjoyed by a vast readership. A young man in 1745 tries to survive the times of rebellion.

Waverley

Scott., Walter

British & Irish

Penguin Classics

F. Scott Fitzgerald belonged to a generation of American writers who made a crucial contribution to the development of modern literary culture in English. This study charts the changes in Fitzgerald's literary reputation, and examines the factors which have led to his establishment as one of the classic 20th-century American writers. "Modern Fiction" is a series of introductory studies of the chief writers and movements in the history of 20th-century fiction in English. Each volume is written by an expert in the field, and offers a fresh reading of the writer's work in the light of recent scholarship and criticism, but always with the needs of the student and general reader in mind . It provides biographical information, consideration of the writer's relationship to the social, intellectual and cultural life of their times, and detailed readings of selected texts. The series includes short-story writers as well as novelists, contemporary, as well as the classic moderns and their successors, and Commonwealth, as well as British and American writers. There are volumes on themes and groups, as well as on individual figures. Coming at a time when modern fiction is the subject of discussion, which is intense but often bewilderingly specialized, "Modern Fiction" offers up-to-date maps of a crowded territory, providing the novel-reader and student with the informative and helpful introductions that are increasingly needed.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Modern Fiction)

United States

Hodder Arnold

Students of American literature and American studies will welcome this new series that examines the peculiarly cultural context out of which the nation's literature has developed. Between the Civil War and 1900, an enormous population explosion, rapid urbanization and massive industrialization combined to transform American society. America's literary culture, however, found it difficult to cope with the speed and cost of these changes that were making the United States the world's most advanced and powerful industrial nation. This volume focuses on the struggles of American writers to make sense of their changing world.

American Literature in Context: 1865-1900: 3

Routledge& Kegan Paul

A short novel written by Andrew Hook, in the style of slipstream. The secret history of Ponthe Oldenguine's lost BBC programs and cake stomping for dessert. Ponthe Oldenguine is one part fictional biography of a former television impresario who claims he's been hounded out of media history, and one part biography of the journalist commissioned to write his story. Where the tales merge, there is madness. If you want a picture of the future, Trunka, imagine a boot stamping on a cake forever. Imagine just how glorious that would be. Comic, curious, sometimes downright outrageous, Ponthe Oldenguine is a brain-trip through the forgotten archives of the BBC: Captain Crowface, Radio Cardboard Fox, and The Town of Theberton are but a few of the seminal programs once confined to the rubbish bin and now exhumed for your reading pleasure. Part 1984, part Python, part slipstream, part realism, the life of Ponthe Oldenguine is an audacious attempt to restore the balance between sanity and insanity; illustrating what a thin line that can be. So, place your snout in the air, your hands on your tummy, and dance. But read it and believe it at your peril.

Ponthe Oldenguine

Humor & Satire

Atomix Fez Pub

Imagine a fictional world in which all your beloved (or despised) dead writers get one last swan song from beyond the grave. Do they find themselves in "heaven", "hell", or something far more strange? And will they ever get around to answering some of literature's greatest mysteries for us, such as: *Why did Rimbaud stop writing poetry? *What type of Heaven awaits C.S. Lewis? *Is Hell other people as Sartre theorized? *Will Joyce ever return to Dublin? *Was Jack Kerouac actually a Buddhist, Catholic, or both? *Just how much was Zelda Fitzgerald plagiarized by her husband? *Do all Brontë sisters go to Heaven? *What type of Hell could ever surpass Beckett's angst for life? *Why did David Foster Wallace commit suicide? *Did Kawabata accidentally leave the gas tap on? *What would Hunter S. Thompson's politic opinion of our present be? *Why did Oscar Zeta Acosta disappear in the Sea of Cortes? *And just what kind of music does Boris Vian play in the hereafter? As well as check-ins with: Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso, Sylvia Plath, Donald Barthelme, & Jorge Luis Borges. [Additional writers contributing to the anthology: &#381;ana Brankovi&#263;, Ian Drew Forsyth, & Marcella Shepherd.]

Afterlives of the Writers

McCormick, Michael

Woomer, Amanda R.

Belardes, Nicholas

DeSantis, M.T.

Hughes, Rhys.

Press, 5th Wall

Encomienda, Alex R.

Mersault, Treyvon

Salis, George

Literary

Independently published

GHOST HIGHWAYS is the second of the Midnight Street Anthologies. The first was JOURNEYS INTO DARKNESS, still available from Amazon and other sources.   GHOST HIGHWAYS contains 12 previously unpublished stories and a further 3 reprinted stories, (one of which is a completely revised version), from some of the most exciting and proven masters of the genre, including Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark, Ralph Robert Moore, Ray Cluley, Thana Niveau and many more.  Paul Finch has written an introduction that sets the scene perfectly for what is to come.   The themes relate to ghost highways in the fullest, often oblique, sense. In his introduction, Paul Finch reflects that: "Roads aren’t just roads. They’re metaphors for journeys – journeys through life, journeys towards death, journeys we personally have made, journeys we’d like to make or dread making, journeys that others have made".   But there is another aspect to these stories: that of the haunting residue; ghosts in all their various interpretations. The characters are haunted in some way, often in subtle ways. The nightmares that haunt them are often baleful, leaving the protagonists trapped within the fates they have invoked.  Each story has an illustrated introductory page that suggests the mood of what is to come, tempting the reader into whatever nightmarish world the author has created.  GHOST HIGHWAYS is the most ambitious project that Midnight Street Press has launched so far. The Editor, Trevor Denyer, previously edited two critically acclaimed magazines: 'Roadworks' and 'Midnight Street', and the essence of those magazines is distilled in these Midnight Street Anthologies. There is subtlety, augmented by an impending or ongoing horror, and a focus on character that creates unease and ultimately, a full blown, terrifying denouement, often not immediately obvious, but always unsettling.  GHOST HIGHWAYS is a unique journey along highways that will transport the reader to places -  outside the comfort of home, of the cosy armchair - where demons in their many forms, hold sway.

Ghost Highways: Midnight Street Anthology 2 (MIDNIGHT STREET ANTHOLOGIES)

CLARK, SIMON

Cluley, Ray

Niveau, Thana

Campbell, Ramsey

Williamson, Neil

MOORE, RALPH ROBERT

COUZENS, GARY

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Something is happening to Green. He is an ordinary guy, time-jumping forward at a startling, uncontainable rate. He is grappling to understand his present; his relationship is wholly tattered; his ultimate destination is a colossal question mark. Zada is a scientist in the future. She is mindful of Green's conundrum and seeks to unravel it by going backwards in time. Can she stop him from jumping to infinity? Their point of intersection is fleeting but memorable, each one's travel impacting the other's past or future. And one of them doesn't even know it yet. Secondhand Daylight is a reverse story in alternate timelines between two protagonists whose lives must one day intersect. A titillating offering from World Fantasy Award-finalist Eugen Bacon, an Otherwise Fellowships honouree for 'doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction'. In collaboration with three-time British Fantasy Society Award-winner Andrew Hook.

Secondhand Daylight: A Novel

Bacon, Eugen

Cosmic Egg Books

The Immortalists

Telos Publishing, Limited

Andrew Hook's scholarship is distinctive in that it focuses on all three of English, Scottish and American literatures. In this medley of reflections - academic and personal - on his life and work we hear how this focus came about. The themes include early life, a professional career in the academic world, the past and present of both Scotland and America, and the educational, literary, cultural and political life of both countries. Included in the story are unpublished papers delivered at academic conferences, as well as a substantial body of material from his wide-ranging contributions to the online 'Scottish Review' since its inception in 2008.

From Mount Hooly to Princeton: A Scottish-American Medley

Arts & Photography

Kennedy & Boyd

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