恰克•帕拉尼克，1962年出生于美国，毕业于俄勒冈大学新闻学院，三十多岁时开始写作，是一名特立独行的当代小说天才，在全世界范围内拥有大量忠实的粉丝。主要作品有《肠子》、《隐形怪物》、《搏击俱乐部》、《窒息》、《摇篮曲》、《日记》、《逃亡者与难民》等。这些作品糅合了讽刺、戏剧性、恐怖等元素，呈现出一种独特的超现实主义黑色幽默。其中，《搏击俱乐部》被导演大卫•芬奇改编成同名电影，他也因此得到了来自全世界的关注和认可。

Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling St...(展开全部)

A legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends. “How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century br...(展开全部)

A legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends. “How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century br...(展开全部)

Eshun's book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction was published in 1998 and is “At its simplest... a study of visions of the future in music from Sun Ra to 4 Hero”[1]. Written in a style that makes extensive use of neologism, re-appropriated jargon and compound words the book explores the intersection of black music and science fiction from an afro-futurist...(展开全部)

小さな町で保安官をしているフランは、荷の護送をした帰り道、馬に死なれてしまう。水もなしに荒野を歩いて帰る。それは命の危機に瀕（ルビ・ひん）したあまりにも無謀なことだっった。三日目、意識を失いかけた彼は言葉も容姿も異なるネイティブのトトに助けられる。友好関係にない二人だったが、トトはフランを町まで導いてくれた。礼も言えずに別れてしまい、フランはトトのことが気にかかるが──。

The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its ...(展开全部)

The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?