The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh an...(展开全部)

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh an...(展开全部)

I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly -- a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new liter...(展开全部)

On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he’s ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shi...(展开全部)

Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar...(展开全部)

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

Destined to be a modern classic from “an original and a canonical presence in Irish fiction” (Colm Tóibín), Small Things Like These is Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel, the tale of one man’s courage — and a remarkable portrait of love and family. It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is fa...(展开全部)

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettab...(展开全部)

克莱尔•吉根 （1968— ） 生于爱尔兰威克洛郡一个大家庭，是家中最小的孩子。十七岁时远赴美国路易斯安那州新奥尔良，在洛约拉大学主修英语和政治学，一九九二年回到爱尔兰，在威尔士加迪夫大学生活一年，获创意写作硕士学位，并在威尔士大学教授本科生。 故事发表于《纽约客》《格兰塔》《巴黎评论》和《美国最佳故事》。曾获得威廉•特雷弗奖、鲁尼爱尔兰文学奖、奥利弗•库克奖和二〇〇九年戴维•伯恩斯爱尔兰写作奖。其他奖项包括休•伦纳德奖学金、麦考利奖学金、马丁•希利奖、基尔肯尼奖和汤姆•加仑奖。两次获得弗朗西斯•麦克马纳斯奖，同时是温盖特奖学金获得者。都柏林圣三一学院和剑桥大学彭布罗克学院选择吉根作为二〇二一年布里纳•斯汤顿访问学者（Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow）。 二〇〇九年，小说《寄养》获得由美国作家理查德•福特担任评委的戴维...(展开全部)

‘The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased t...(展开全部)