Watch out for the comping ep from my acoustic-Jewish-folk band, the Zuckermans unplugged.
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Possibly out of print. Email or call to check availability and price.
Vila-Matas stories combine magic, sadness, and emotional punches to do that rare thing that is so difficult to achieve, good writing.
For those of you that have read The Door this is a great follow up novel thanks to NYRB classics. For you that have yet to read Szabo, come in buy this book, read it on a mountain, get some tea, and enjoy life.
The machinations of the mind are just as complicated as the machinations of society. We need conspiracy theories, secret plans, and schemes to control them. Arlt reminds us, this usually does not work out.
At an early age I watched Kurosawa’s masterpiece The Seven Samurai. The consequences of this decision would only be learned when I picked up this book and now spend my days pondering the line that Dewitt uses throughout the book, “a good samurai will parry the blow”.
We love novels where the stories interlock, family sagas, and historical epics in which our faith in humanity is restored. In juxtaposition, as the title suggests, Keene's book challenges the idea of cohesion and redemption. Counternarratives takes us to the margins from a crazed general in the Amazon to Jim from Tom Sawyer. These stories remind us that even if redemption is impossible, recognition is still a radical literary act.
The southwest, that strange and quixotic American landscape, which brings a dark magic to this anti-coming of age novel. Williams is not be nice to her characters. However, the world is not a nice place to begin with and maybe the best we can do is try and find grace in the oddest of places
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Freud's last book written on the eve of World War Two is a spiteful but loving defense of Judaism against its most venomous enemies. I have a senior thesis about this book if you are interested.