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Results for 'percival everett'
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The Art of Opposition
On Hope, Resilience and Creative Expression Beyond the MainstreamAlongside his own observations and experiences, he explores the work of - and in some instances interviews - other oppositional artists, including Percival Everett, Lou Mensah, Iain Banks, Jean Binta Breeze and others.
€ 23,50 -
McSweeney's Issue 81 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
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Sonnets for a Missing Key
and some othersSonnets for a Missing Key is a mesmerising feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.
€ 33,50 -
California Rewritten
A Journey Through the Golden State's New LiteratureBest LA-Centric Books of 2025 - LA Taco California Book Club Selection - Alta JournalPraise for California Rewritten: "There is a feeling to a John Freeman literary essay—and that feeling is awe and that feeling is fascination. In California Rewritten, Freeman writes with singular precision and intelligence about new California literature, animating that mysterious relationship that unfolds when a writer's imagination engages with place. In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation. I can imagine a life of just reading these essays and revisiting the books described, each act nurtured by the other." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds "Trump fans beware, this book is filled with things your hero won't like: diversity, dissent, and a celebration of the most un-Trumpish of all states, California. John Freeman's crisp, incisive essays cast a wonderfully sensitive eye on a wide-ranging collection of people who've written about this state in novels, reportage, memoir, history, and more. Step aside, New York; the center of the American literary universe has moved here." —Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight "Here is vindication of all that I have argued the last fifty years—that California has had and currently has the richest, the most literary tradition in the country, the most recent of which is so beautifully chronicled in this book. I know I'm not the only California writer to say, Thank you, John Freeman." —Greg Sarris, author of The Forgetters "What's most compelling about the work gathered here isn't what it has to tell us about our past, however recent, but what it has to say about the present and the future of California's restless and insurgent literature [...] At the book's heart is the necessary notion that literature is dynamic, living, that it changes and develops as we do, that it can show us who we are." —David L. Ulin, Alta Journal "If you want to learn more about how the story of California has been told and how it has changed over the years, you will find much to enjoy in this book." —Seattle Book Review "Freeman’s insightful essays mix anecdotes, California history, and illuminating insight." —Mike Sonksen, L.A. TACO "In putting together a collection of representative California writing, Freeman wanted to present a broader picture of the California experience by embracing prominent works from writers of color, including Walter Mosley, Tommy Orange, Maxine Hong Kingston and many others. His new book of essays serves as a handy field guide to the Golden State's current literary landscape—covering almost 50 books from living writers that capture the California experience, complete with an appendix listing 99 other quintessentially California titles from writers living and dead." —Lookout Santa Cruz "Extraordinarily well written. Freeman's California is admirably multicultural, like the state itself." —California Review of Books Praise for Freeman's: California: "Captures the western state's complex history through the eyes of both new writers and established names . . . From every facet of the literary world, this cacophony of fresh and well-known writers with every award under their collective belts movingly interprets struggles and dreams in the Sunshine State." ―Shelf Awareness (starred review) "Tells the story of California in pieces, which is the only way it can be told . . . The point―or one of them―is that, in California, one must learn to persevere. In this collection, California in all its glorious complexity comes vividly to life." ―Kirkus Reviews "Illuminating . . . Perfect reading for our ever-accelerating times." ―NPR's Book Concierge "Freeman’s is fresh, provocative, engrossing" ―BBC.com "There's an illustrious new literary journal in town . . . [with] fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by new voices and literary heavyweights . . . alike." ―Vogue.com Praise for Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman: "A brilliant anthology . . . There is so much excellent writing in the pages of Tales of Two Americas." —Salon "Each contribution stands out. Each voice is unique. The only common threads in the collection are theme and excellence . . . This anthology is spectacular and devastating and provocative." —Minneapolis Star Tribune "Masterful and affecting stories, essays, and poems by 36 writers profoundly attuned to the sources and implications of social rupture. These are sharply inquisitive and provocative works." —Booklist (starred review)
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our time
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Sonnets for a Missing Key
and some othersSonnets for a Missing Key is a mesmerising feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.
€ 17,95 -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
After the Civil War, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) left his small town to seek work as a riverboat pilot. As Mark Twain, the Missouri native found his place in the world. Author, journalist, lecturer, wit, and sage, Twain created enduring works that have enlightened and amused readers of all ages for generations.
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our time
€ 27,50 -
Passing into the Present
Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender PassingThis is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990’s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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Laughing to Keep from Dying
African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century"Many comics hone their craft primarily to amuse, but with this thoughtful, academic work, Morgan explores the idea of Black satire with an added function: to more or less safely rock the boat, expressing ideas that might otherwise be tuned out or provoke uncomfortable or even dangerous backlash." --Library Journal "Morgan explores a radical impulse in recent Black comedy, arguing that performers like Dave Chappelle or films like 'Get Out' aim to highlight racial boundaries." --New York Times "In Laughing to Keep from Dying, Danielle Fuentes Morgan crafts an innovative and well-considered account of African-American satire. . . . Morgan's prose is clear and engaging, and her language accessible and compelling." --Journal of American Culture
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Laughing to Keep from Dying
African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century"Many comics hone their craft primarily to amuse, but with this thoughtful, academic work, Morgan explores the idea of Black satire with an added function: to more or less safely rock the boat, expressing ideas that might otherwise be tuned out or provoke uncomfortable or even dangerous backlash." --Library Journal "Morgan explores a radical impulse in recent Black comedy, arguing that performers like Dave Chappelle or films like 'Get Out' aim to highlight racial boundaries." --New York Times "In Laughing to Keep from Dying, Danielle Fuentes Morgan crafts an innovative and well-considered account of African-American satire. . . . Morgan's prose is clear and engaging, and her language accessible and compelling." --Journal of American Culture "Exceedingly well-written, well-researched . . . Recommended." --Choice "A satisfying read for anyone with an interest in how entertainment responds to a shifting social landscape." --Atlantic "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century is a must-read for anyone (like us) who has needed reminding lately why the risks of irony are worth taking." --Humor "Danielle Fuentes Morgan's Laughing to Keep from Dying is a major contribution to African American literary and cultural studies and to the study of satire and other forms of humor in the United States. Taking as her focus satirical texts in the twenty-first century, Morgan argues that recent African American satirical works reassert an ethical position present in black cultural expressions since slavery, that literature and art instantiate a humanity that its authors perennially assume to be a matter of fact. But rather than positing respectability politics, contemporary African American satire advocates a 'kaleidoscopic blackness,' one that embraces the many subtle and subversive ways that black people make meaning. Contemporary African American satire, as the title indicates, is more than a salve for oppression; its purpose is to keep black people from dying. In this stunning debut, Morgan places herself in the company of Glenda Carpio, Terrence Tucker, and most recently Lisa Guerrero."--Darryl Dickson-Carr, author of Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance "Danielle Fuentes Morgan attunes readers to the variable registers and resonances of Black laughter in the present moment. Examining a wide range of media, from novels and television series to standup comedy and performance art, Morgan shows how the satirical impulse in Black cultural production expresses not only collective histories of subversion but individual practices of survival. A bold account of humor’s capacity to traverse the realms of sociality and interiority, Laughing to Keep from Dying is a model of Black study for the twenty-first century." --Kinohi Nishikawa, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground
€ 26,50 -
Approximate Gestures
Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival EverettArgues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the potential of a larger, more uncertain world.
€ 55,50