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"The girls were rebelling. The girls were acting out. The girls had
run away from home, that much was clear." -Rebecca Bengal In her
collection Strange Hours, the writer Rebecca Bengal considers over
a century of photography that has defined our relationship to the
medium. Through generous and in-depth essays, profiles, reviews,
and interviews, Bengal contemplates photography's narrative power,
from the radical intimacy of Nan Goldin's New York demimonde to
Justine Kurland's pictures of rebel girls on the open road. Bengal
brings us closer to several pioneering artists and the personal,
political, and poetic stories that surround their photographs. She
travels with Alec Soth in Minneapolis, searching for the houses
where Prince once lived, and revisits Chauncey Hare's 1979 protest
against the Museum of Modern Art. She speaks with Dawoud Bey about
his evocative early portraits in Brooklyn and explores Diana
Markosian's cinematic take on her family's immigration to the US.
Throughout Strange Hours, Bengal's prose is attentive to the
alchemy of experience, chance, and pioneering vision that has
always pushed photography's potential for unforgettable
storytelling.
In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain
landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only
the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the
authentic. 'When the book was over, I missed the awful, cleansing
darkness of its eyes upon me ' New Yorker Books of the Year 2021
'This is the apocalypse as reimagined by a committee headed by
Dali, Kafka and Yorgos Lanthimos.' Observer Winner of the 2021
Kirkus Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 LA Times Prize
Longlisted for the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the
2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Khristen
is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked for greatness as
a baby when she died for a moment, then came back to life. After
Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and
her mother disappears, she ranges across the dead landscape and
finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the
elderly residents there call 'Big Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of
rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and
people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final
scraps of nature's beauty. Rivetingly strange and delivered with
Williams' searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is a tale of paradise lost
and the reasons to try and recover something of it.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for
Comic Fiction A Sunday Times Book of the Year In her first novel
since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize),
the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an
environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has
value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. 'When the book
was over, I missed the awful, cleansing darkness of its eyes upon
me ' New Yorker Books of the Year 2021 'This is the apocalypse as
reimagined by a committee headed by Dali, Kafka and Yorgos
Lanthimos.' Observer Winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2022 LA Times Prize Longlisted for the PEN/
Jean Stein Book Award Khristen is a teenager who, her mother
believes, was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a
moment, then came back to life. After Khristen's boarding school
for gifted teens closes its doors, and her mother disappears, she
ranges across the dead landscape and finds a 'resort' on the shores
of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call 'Big
Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions
to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the
destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. Rivetingly
strange and delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, Harrow
is a tale of paradise lost and the reasons to try and recover
something of it.
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William Gaddis, Joy Williams
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Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this
collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with
humanity's abuses of the natural world.
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored strange as a nursing home where the living dead are preserved, to a wildlife museum where the dead are presented as living, the girls attend to their future. A remarkable attendant cast of characters, including a stroke survivor whose soulmate is a vivisected monkey, an aging big-game hunter who finds spiritual renewal in his infatuation with an eight-year-old–the formidable Emily Bliss Pickles–and a widower whose wife continues to harangue him, populate this gloriously funny and wonderfully serious novel where the dead are forever infusing the living, and all creatures strive to participate in eternity.
'How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning
more than forty years? Especially when I really want to just
exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture'
Geoff Dyer, Observer Williams' uniquely devastating portrayals of
modern life have been captivating readers and writers for decades.
Here, for the first time, Williams' thirty-three best stories are
available in a single volume, together with thirteen new stories
that show a writer continuing to mould the form into something
strange and new. Bleak but funny, real but surreal, domestic but
dangerous, familiar but enigmatic, Joy Williams' stories fray away
the fabric at the edge of ordinary experience to reveal the
loneliness at the heart of human life. In 'The Lover', a girl
suffers a spiritual and physical wasting away; in 'The Visiting
Privilege', a visitor finds refuge in her friend's psychiatric
ward; in 'Charity', a woman gives a poor family gas money and finds
herself marooned in their peculiar world; in 'Another Season' an
itinerant man cleanses an island of roadkill; in 'Craving' an
alcoholic couple head towards a car crash. The Visiting Privilege
represents the culmination of Williams' career and cements her
place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today.
Fantastic Women comprises eighteen stories by some of the most
exciting contemporary women writers in the United States. The
daughters of Franz Kafka and Mary Shelley, the Brothers Grimm, and
Angela Carter, these inventive, insightful authors steep their
narratives in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black
comedy. The result is wildly creative work that captures the potent
truth about human nature far more clearly than much of the fiction
(or, for that matter, the nonfiction) being written today. Why just
women? More and more women writers are creating work that not only
pushes the envelope but also folds realistic fiction into an
origami dragon, transporting readers into worlds we've never seen
before and digging deeper into the psychic bedrock than their male
counterparts. So slip into a pocket universe, drive through a
family's home, awake in the night to find you've become a deer, and
dive into the ocean to join your mermaid mother. We can't imagine
ever wanting to escape this spellbinding world, but if you must,
best leave a trail of crumbs along your way.
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