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Casting light and shadow, looking backwards and forwards, My Paris is a hynotizing tale of desire and nostalgia, magically submerging the reader in the endless—and not always seamless—sensuality of the City of Light. In My Paris, a Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio. Not a typical tourist, she prefers indoor spaces, seeing Paris go by on TV or watching from her window the ever-changing displays of me...

Foundational Canadian novelist with international appeal – Gail Scott is practically a household name among intellectual and avant-garde literary and artistic circles in Canada (Montreal) and the US (New York). Over the years, she has also developed a devoted American readership and is poised for an international breakthrough, particularly in Western Europe, with this book.Cross-genre appeal – Gail Scott is a poet’s novelist. Furniture Music, ...

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal"A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates." From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l'écriture-au-féminin in Québec and continental New Narr...

A classic feminist novel for a new generation, this work will resonate in a world of increasing radicalization.

E. AmbroseWebster (1869-1935) is among the earliestand most accomplished American modernists. Hepainted rhapsodic landscape compositions of blazingsunlight and explosive color, which even today arestartling for their innovation.

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What is the best way to tell a story? This anthology features a collection of essays by writers like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Lydia Davis and Kevin Killianon who write on the theme of narration. It also includes forty experimental writers who describe their engagement with language, storytelling, and the world.

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Die Triebwerke sind gestartet. Die Fluggäste haben Platz genommen. Ein Flug wie jeder andere. An Bord befindet sich auch John Berry, ein allein erziehender Vater und Hobbypilot, geschäftlich nach Tokio unterwegs. Doch es kommt anders: Eine Rakete der Navy zerreißt das Flugzeug, die Piloten und mehrere Passagiere werden getötet, und John muss seine spärliche Flugerfahrung einsetzen, um das Unmögliche zu schaffen: die Landung von Flug 52. Unters...

The portrait of a woman facing the end of the century and creating a history of the present.

A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of "Spare Parts" is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Its initial appearance, in 1981, caused a stir, at a time when linear narrative was the m.o. of feminist writing, Gail Scott had the nerve to fracture and dislocate her stories and her language. "Spare Parts" is as vital as it was twenty years ago. Scott's den...