Short stories by Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Stafford, Hortense Calisher, Jean Rhys, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Vladimir Nabokov, and Roger Angell offer distinctively individual visions of the aging process in man
Fifth-generation lobster-woman Mat Pero loves her traditional Portuguese family and living in the lesbian hub of Provincetown, even if they feel like two different worlds.
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment.
Autumn Light: A Lifetime of Seasons & Reflections
... goes right along with what all “men of good will” are in essence celebrating during the holiday season: that very miraculous thing called love. ('\J An important part of holiday tradition in many countries 22 AUTUMN LIGHT.
Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation, and this book offers a window into its lives."—Chris Kraus "Extolled by a writer who radically devoted herself to the experiential truth of beauty and intellect, in poverty ...
Foreign words are compassionate. They tell you stories only to encourage you to tell your own. This story is a journey with the teller from Paris to Africa via Athens, where he buries his father and closes up his parents' house forever.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Praise forPICO IYER'S THE LADY AND THE MONK “Brilliant and poetically charged ... The chapters chronicle and color the Japanese seasons, summoning with great effects the sounds of temple gongs, the mellifluous notes of bamboo flutes, ...
“Arguably the greatest living travel writer” (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades.
In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband.