From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories, including a novella featuring one of his most beloved characters. Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age...(展开全部)

本文选自白先勇小说集《纽约客》。八十年代的纽约曼哈顿，一家名为“Tea for Two”的同志酒吧，是许多漂泊灵魂的“欢乐天堂”。华人青年“罗”在这里与中美混血少年安弟相遇，酒吧老板大伟与东尼更是相守半生的爱侣。他们相濡以沫，在异国构建了一个温暖的小世界。 然而，艾滋病的阴影悄然降临。这场突如其来的瘟疫，无情地击碎了他们的乐园。面对死亡与离散，这群边缘人用最后的生命，守护着爱与尊严，谱写了一曲悲壮而深情的时代挽歌。

豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯（1899-1986），阿根廷诗人，小说家，翻译家。一九二三年出版第一部诗集，一九三五年出版第一部短篇小说集，奠定在阿根廷文坛的地位。曾任阿根廷国立图书馆馆长、布宜诺斯艾利斯大学哲学文学系教授。重要作品有诗集《布宜诺斯艾利斯的激情》《老虎的金黄》，短篇小说集《小径分岔的花园》《阿莱夫》等。

Kinfolk magazine—launched to great acclaim and instant buzz in 2011—is a quarterly journal about understated, unfussy entertaining. The journal has captured the imagination of readers nationwide, with content and an aesthetic that reflect a desire to go back to simpler times; to take a break from our busy lives; to build a community around a shared sensibility; and to foster th...(展开全部)

旅美学人夏志清教授曾赞誉白氏为“当代中国短篇小说家中的奇才，五四以来，艺术成就上能与他匹敌的，从鲁迅到张爱玲，五六人而已。”也因如此，白先勇2008年获聘北京师范大学（珠海分校）文学院荣誉院长职务。　　欧阳子认为，“白先勇才气纵横，不甘受拘；他尝试过各种不同样式的小说，处理过各种不同类式的题材。而难得的是，他不仅尝试写，而且写出来的作品，差不多都非常成功。白先勇讲述故事的方式很多。他的小说情节，有从人物对话中引出的《我们看菊花去》，有以传统直叙法讲述的《玉卿嫂》，有以简单的倒叙法 (flashback)叙说的《寂寞的十七岁》，有用复杂的「意识流」(stream of consciousness )表白的《香港——一九六0》，更有用「直叙」与「意识流」两法交插并用以显示给读者的《游园惊梦》。他的人物对话，一如日常讲话，非常自然。除此之外，他也能用色调浓...(展开全部)

Pricksongs & Descants , originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously...(展开全部)

Pricksongs & Descants , originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously...(展开全部)

An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics. From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of t...(展开全部)

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black...(展开全部)