“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”—Joan Didion“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.”—Jack KerouacCarefully edited from more than 1000 of his personal correspondences, Rub Out the Words is a collection of 300 of the best letters of Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, written between 1959 and 1974. A truly remarkable compendium, it offers an eye-opening and insightful look into the artistic process and complex personal life of the legendary literary outlaw in the post-Beat era—providing a new understanding and appreciation of an author who stood alongside Paul Bowles and Charles Bukowski as one of the most creative and rebellious American artists of the 20th century.

Rub Out the Words

Literature & Fiction

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Essays & Correspondence

Penguin PressClassics

In "The Eye", a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. There follows a satirical detective story and a wonderfully layered exploration of identity, appearance and the loss of self in a world of word-play and confusion. Nabokov described "The Enchanter", written in Paris in 1939, as 'the first little throb of "Lolita"'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his pedophilic obsession with her daughter. The legendary "The Original of Laura" has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans - and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but his son, Dmitri, eventually took the decision to publish it many years later. The novel was complete in Nabokov's mind, though he died before he could translate his vision on to paper. It is hard, however, to imagine any scholars, Nabokov enthusiasts or literature lovers being disappointed by even these fragments. These three works make up the latest in the major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire", in Penguin Classics.

Novellas: The Eye; The Enchanter; The Original of Laura

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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-03 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Yasha the magician - sword swallower. fire eater. acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills Half Jewish. half. Gentile. a free thinker who slips easily between worlds. Yasha has an observant wife. a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now. though. his exploits are catching up with him. and he is tempted to make one final escape -. from his marriage. his homeland and the last tendrils of his fathers religion Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s. Isaac Bashevis Singers second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a mans flight from love.Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Magician of Lublin

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Literary

Love stories, with a twist, by Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel   By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best known for in Russia.   Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer.

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, An

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Contemporary

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New Maps of Hell

KINGSLEY AMIS

History & Criticism

Miami Blues

[Read by Stephen Bolby]Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you'd think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the greatest detective creations of all time. After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn't think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases, wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, her ex-con boyfriend, and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp.

CHARLES WILLEFORD

Sideswipe

New Hope For the Dead

New Hope for the Dead

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-02-28 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Reading Brodskys essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite. hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor Wall Street JournalWatermark is Joseph Brodskys witty . intelligent. moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city. from its waterways. streets and architecture to its food. politics and people. Brodsky captures its magnificence and beauty. and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters. as he remembers friends. lovers and enemies he has encountered. Above all. he reflects with great poetic force on how the rising tide of time affects city and inhabitants alike.Watermark is an unforgettable piece of writing. and a wonderful evocation of a remarkable. unique city.Winner of the Nobel Prize fo...

Watermark An Essay On Venice

Travel

Joseph Brodsky

Europe

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