The Moon and the Island: Poems by Laura Stortoni

Literature & Fiction

laura-stortoni

Poetry

Small Press

A World Of Letters

Gustaf Sobin

Luling, Texas, once known as the "Toughest Town i n Texas," gets tougher when all hell breaks loose in this second installment of the Tom Seiler mystery trilogy by Jack Grubbs. The Dryline opens with Tom Seiler helping his brother, Don, with the ﬁnal design of an oil extraction system potentially worth billions. When one of Don's workers is found dead on the outskirts of Luling, a chain of events pits the brothers against a group of ruthless oilmen bent on stealing the patent to their design. Surrounded by danger, Tom and Don have no option but to ﬁght for the system-and their lives. Set among the gentle, rolling hills of South Texas, The Dryline explores the vagaries of nature, the one-of-a-kind Luling Watermelon Thump, and the struggle between justice and revenge. The ending, vicious and lightning-quick, will leave the reader parched-ready to drink deep from the font of Grubbs's imagination.

Dryline (A Seiler Murder Mystery)

Jack Grubbs

Action & Adventure

<p>Pierre Klossowski's debut novel, The Suspended Vocation, fictionalizes and satirizes the great erotic artist, philosopher, and iconoclast's brief, wartime flirtation with the priesthood, portraying the Church as a haven for conspiracy, idolatry, perversion, and even atheism. Written in the form of a disapproving monograph on an anonymous, confessional novel (itself titled The Suspended Vocation), it is the story of the hapless Jérôme, whose lust for holiness leads him astray in a cloistered world full of ideological and physical temptations. Sometimes a knowing critique of "religious fiction," sometimes a wicked self-parody of Klossowski's own lifelong obsessions, and sometimes a sacerdotal spy novel, The Suspended Vocation is one of the strangest and most audacious debuts in twentieth-century literature, and is here made available in English for the very first time.</p>

The Suspended Vocation

Pierre Klossowski

Maths Poems

<p>Limited to 500 copies, Litterature pairs excerpts from Francis Picabia’s (1879–1953) novel Caravanserail with nine drawings and seventeen studies he created for the cover of André Breton’s Litterature journal between 1922 and 1924. This beautifully produced linen-bound book―whose front cover features circular die-cuts derived from one of Picabia’s dice drawings―offers a celebration of subversive play and fluid forms. </p>

Francis Picabia: Litterature

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Towards the end of his life Leppin wrote: Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflict, its mystery, its rat-catchers beauty have ever provided my poetic efforts with new inspiration and meaning. Others Paradise represents one of the most intense expressions of this experience. Beginning with the highly imagistic The Doors of Life, the eight stories contained in this volume detail the contours of the lives and visions of a collection of Prague inhabitants, from a prostitute bound to the decay of the old Jewish quarter, to a man caught in the memory of a lost love, and a shoemaker whose knowledge of the world has been constricted to the view from the window of his cellar workroom. Amidst their differing circumstances what these characters share is an intense desire for lasting human contact and the fated disappointment of all such aspirations. Binding their personal histories, woven into their most intimate details, is Prague itself, the city whose nature, mythical and yet all-too-real, gives shape and force to their desires while simultaneously determining their frustrations.

Others' Paradise

Howard, Stephanie

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