The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis

The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis PDF Author: Mark Gluth
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354941
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Composed in brief paragraphs and structured as a series of vignettes, pieces of fiction and autobiography, The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis creates a world in which a woman's life is refracted through dreamlike logic. Margaret Kroftis is a writer, living alone. As she experiences a personal tragedy, the narrative moves forward in an emotionally coherent manner that exists separately from linear time. A groundbreaking debut from a truly talented new writer.

The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis

The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis PDF Author: Mark Gluth
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354941
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Book Description
Composed in brief paragraphs and structured as a series of vignettes, pieces of fiction and autobiography, The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis creates a world in which a woman's life is refracted through dreamlike logic. Margaret Kroftis is a writer, living alone. As she experiences a personal tragedy, the narrative moves forward in an emotionally coherent manner that exists separately from linear time. A groundbreaking debut from a truly talented new writer.

The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse

The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse PDF Author: Lonely Christopher
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1936070804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Two boys lie on a bed, one of them is already dead; they listen to Glenn Gould playing Bach and talk about suicide and love. A lonely narrator mourns the end of a relationship and the disappearance of a mysterious object as a frustrated artist jumps out of a moving car on his birthday and runs for the last street lamp in the universe. The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, a radical map of shortcomings in daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, presents thematically related windows into serious emotional trouble and monstrous love.

Headless

Headless PDF Author: Benjamin Weissman
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1888451491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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The author of the acclaimed transgressive cult classic Dear Dead Person returns with this long-awaited second collection of brilliantly written, outrageously imaginative and comedic short stories. In Headless, Weissman turns his daredevil wit and fearless storytelling gifts on subjects ranging from Hitler's secret life as a skier to the philosophical musings of identical twin porn stars to the travails of the world's most sitcom defying family.

Userlands

Userlands PDF Author: Dennis Cooper
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354151
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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This anthology brings to light some of the new fiction writers who are using the Internet's labyrinthine array of blogs and personal web pages to expose, test, and develop their work. They are gay, straight, young, old, and in some cases still searching for their identities. Written by Dennis Cooper

The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1042

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Advances in Social Work

Advances in Social Work PDF Author: Indiana University School of Social Work
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412068444
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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This special issue of the journal Advances in Social Work captures the vision of 21 different social work scholars looking ahead to the future in their area of practice. Areas include Futures of: Social Work as a profession, Social Work Education, Social Work Values and Ethics, Global Social Work, Multicultural Social Work, Macro Social Work, Social Welfare Policy, Evidence-based Social Work, Strengths-based Social Work, Technology and Social Work, Spirituality and Social Work, Disabilities and Social Work, Aging and Social Work, Rural Social Work, Families and Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Work, Schools and Social Work, Health Care and Social Work, Mental Health and Social Work, Addictions and Social Work, Criminal Justice and Social Work. This insightful special issue offers a grand view of a very diverse profession and the many areas of practice that social workers serve in. This special issue will be highly useful in all levels of social work education within introductory, policy, and practice classes as an invaluable teaching tool. It will also be informative reading for professionals in the practice who are interested in seeing cutting edge visions of our future as a profession. Every social worker should read this fascinating issue of Advances in Social Work!

Artificial Light

Artificial Light PDF Author: James Greer
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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“Artificial Light beats the bejeezus out of the last dozen Thomas Pynchons, the last nineteen Don DeLillos, and the last forty-three Kurt Vonneguts.”—Richard Meltzer “In his ambitious and intriguing debut novel, indie rock expert Greer, author of Guided by Voices, employs one of literature's oldest gambits, the book-within-a-book structure, three times over. A young librarian calling herself Fiat Lux fills a set of notebooks with her passion for books and an enigmatic account of her interlude with Kurt C, a famous indie rock star who appears unheralded in Dayton, Ohio, and buys the long-abandoned Orville Wright mansion. A member of the rock group Whiskey Ships is trying to write about his musical odyssey but longs to return to his book about Orville Wright, whose long-lost diaries also feed the narrative stream. Greer picks the lock on the Kurt Cobain mythos and the rapid commercialization of indie rock…Strong writing and shrewd perceptions prevail, backed by wry humor, compelling stumblebum characters, a true-blue louche atmosphere, and arresting insights into the dream of art, be it literature or rock and roll.”—Booklist

The Sterile Cuckoo

The Sterile Cuckoo PDF Author: John Nichols
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393349527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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“A hilarious, sad . . . all too true novel about the rough underside of a college love affair.”—John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace When eighteen-year-old Jerry Payne first meets Pookie Adams at the Friarsburg, Oklahoma, bus depot, he is hardly aware that this moment marks the beginning of the most memorable love affair of his life. Overwhelmed (and yet secretly enchanted) by her zany, rambling monologue, Jerry is relieved to leave her in St. Louis as he continues to New York. Thinking he’s seen the last of her, he heads off to college, only to be pursued by seventeen lengthy letters, and before he knows it he’s involved with a seemingly crazy, startlingly honest girl who adores him. During the next two years, Pookie helps Jerry leave behind the fun-seeking, beer-blasted fraternity man he has become, as she teaches him to open his heart to her. Then, almost as suddenly as she appeared in his life, she disappears from it, leaving in her wake an eternal trail of love and wonder.

Grab Bag

Grab Bag PDF Author: Derek McCormack
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781888451597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The third title on Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series, Grab Bag is comprised of two interrelated novels, Dark Rides and Wish Book, from one of Canada's most important young writers. Both books are set in the same small rural city, in different eras (1950s, 1930s), each characterised by McCormack's spare and elliptical prose. Anyone interested in the more wicked, crafty and inventive forms of Canadian writing would be well advised to spend time with McCormack' - Toronto Star'

Wide Eyed

Wide Eyed PDF Author: Trinie Dalton
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781888451863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Part of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series, this collection of stories is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets, fantasies, and obsessions.