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(0)Karen Joy Fowler
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean...
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Fifteen satirical stories. In The View from Venus, aliens
do a case study of the mores and customs of college
students, in The Travails, Gulliver's wife orders her
husband to stop travelling and share household chores,
while Lieserl portrays Einstein as a deadbeat dad. By the
author of Sarah Canary.
"First published in 1998 ... and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay, Black Glass showcases the...
6) Wit's end
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Ohio schoolteacher Rima Lanisell goes to visit her godmother Addison Early, a famous novelist, in Santa Cruz, California, and becomes caught up in the lives of the eccentric people in Early's household, while trying to discover the truth about the relationship between her godmother and her recently deceased father, Bim, who was the model for a killer in one of Early's mystery novels.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice -- sharp, witty, as compassionate as it...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility (Sylvia's daughter Allegra). Throw in a fair amount of...
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters-to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged-written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
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Series
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Included in this volume:
INTRODUCTION, Rich Horton (Editor)
DARK INTEGERS, Greg Egan
A PLAIN TALE FROM OUR HILLS, Bruce Ster
AN EYE FOR AN EYE, Charles Coleman Finlay
ALWAYS, Karen Joy Fowler
AN OCEAN IS A SNOWFLAKE, FOUR BILLION MILES AWAY, John Barnes
VIRUS CHANGES SKIN, Ekaterina Sedia
WIKIWORLD, Paul Di Filippo
ARTIFICE AND INTELLIGENCE, Tim Pratt
JESUS CHRIST, REANIMATOR, Ken MacLeod
NIGHT CALLS, Robert Reed
EVERYONE
