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Product: Black Warrior Review: Issue 33.2: Spring/Summer 2007
Description: CONTENTS: - POETRY - Beth Ann Fennelly POETRY CONTEST WINNER - 1), Cow Tipping ... Sarah E. Smith - 2). Why I'm Not Famous ... Greta Wrolstad - 3). Notes on Sea and Shore ... Paul Guest - 4). A Brief History of History ... K.A. Hays 5). Serotinous ... Michele Glazer 6). The least amount of stirred air a ﬁgure needed ... - FICTION - Chris Bachelder 7). Otherwise Faithful ... Lily Hoang 8). Personal Equation ... Eben Wood: FICTION CONTEST WINNER (9). The Masturah Well ... Christopher Merkner 10). The Cook at Swedish Castle ... - N O N F I C T I O N - Leslie Jamison 11). In Defense of Saccharin(e) ... - CHAPBOOK - Stephanie Bolster 12). The Life of the Mind ... - ART - 13). Nicole Barrick ... - FEATURE - Beth Bachmann 14). Introduction by James Hoch ... 15). Answer to the Mystery of My Blank Stare ... 16). Nesting ... 17). Glorious Mystery ... 18). Setting ... Lynne Tillman 19). Introduction by Lydia Millet ... 20). The Way We Are ... Deb Olin Unferth 21). Introduction by Steve Tomasula ... 22). Brevity ... 23). International Days ... 24). Conversations ... Michael Salisbury 25). Introduction by Ander Monson 26). Horizontal Accidents ... Jennifer Chang 27). Introduction by Victoria Chang ... 28). Postscript ... 29). Sea Psalm ... 30). Apologia pro Vita Sua ... 31). MINI-RESUME/BIOS OF CONTRIBUTORS
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Product: The New York Times Book Review - August 13, 2017 - All About Eve
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Product: U.S.!: Songs and Stories by Bachelder, Chris(February 21, 2006) Paperback
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Product: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Number 23 (Signed First Edition)
Description: Hammond, Raymond (Editor). The New York Quarterly. Number 62. New York, New York Quarterly Foundation, 2007. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. 176 pages with illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding. Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus on the craft that underlies effective poetry writing. The New York Quarterly features works by both known and emerging poets. The NYQ Craft Interviews present the views of some of our most outstanding poets on the general subjects of style, prosody and technique. The issues are rounded out with an essay or two on the subject of contemporary American poetry that is both accessible and meaningful to readers, poets, students, and teachers of poetry alike. NYQ 62 features two craft interviews, one with Franz Wright and the other with Ted Kooser; an editorial on originality and poetry; an essay, Scientific Thought and Poetic Vision, by Jared Smith; an essay, A Challenge to American Poetry, by Antonio de Nicolas; and poetry by Franz Wright, W. D. Snodgrass, Douglas Treem, Gary Goude, Antonio de Nicolas, Sascha Feinstein, Andrew Glaze, Fred Yannantuono, Antler, Kevin Pilkington, Ira Joe Fisher, Christopher Goodrich, Lyn Lifshin, Tony Quagliano, Timothy Liu, Amanda J. Bradley, Michael Montlack, Scott Greenleaf, Jared Smith, Stephen Stepanchev, Bill Zavatsky, Melanie Huber, Mark Bibbins, Knute Skinner, Scott Bailey, Melissa Christine Goodrum, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Ted Jonathan, Mookie Katigbak, Yoon Sik Kim, Reginald Sinclair Lewis, Scott Odom, Patricia Ryan, Jackie Sheeler, Virgil Suarez, Amber Tamblyn, Gael Miller, Michael Cirelli, Shanna Compton, Pat Farewell, Douglas Goetsch, Jennif..
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Product: A propósito de Abbott (Libros del Asteroide nº 106) (Spanish Edition)
Description: Sinopsis

Abbott es un profesor universitario de vacaciones, padre exhausto de una niña de dos años, marido de una embarazada insomne y amo de un perro miedoso.

Abbott se afana en las tareas domésticas y en el cuidado de su hija, aunque las cosas no siempre salen como él quisiera: un día se olvida de ponerle crema solar a la niña o la viste de invierno en pleno verano; otro se le estropea la nevera o se encuentra una serpiente en medio de su jardín.

Abbott parece haber sido abducido por la paternidad, aunque no puede dejar de ponerse en entredicho ni de percibir las implacables paradojas de su vida. Y así, mientras limpia el vómito de la sillita de su hija se dice: «Las dos proposiciones siguientes son ciertas: (a) Si tuviera la ocasión, Abbott no cambiaría ni uno de los elementos fundamentales de su vida, pero (b) Abbott no soporta su vida».

Compuesta por pequeñas escenas cotidianas, terroríficas unas, maravillosas otras, A propósito de Abbott es una desternillante historia sobre las pequeñas desventuras, agobios y alegrías de los que está hecha la paternidad.

Biografía del autor

Chris Bachelder nació en Minneapolis en 1971 pero se crio en Virginia. Estudió en las universidades de Virginia Tech y Florida, y es profesor de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Massachusetts Amherst. Colabora habitualmente en revistas literarias como McSweeney’s o The Believer.

Es autor de las novelas Bear vs. Shark (2001), U.S! (2006) y A propósito de Abbott (2011), y del inclasificable Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (2004).

Críticas

«Bachelder ha escrito un libro delicioso y al tiempo tóxico, pues es imposible no sentirse aludido por él, para lo bueno y para lo malo. Capítulos como el que dedica a los miedos que una siesta desacostumbradamente larga genera en un progenitor,merecen por derecho propio inscribirse entre las mejores páginas que se han escrito acerca de los fantasmas (y la estupidez) que acosan a todo padre.» Ricardo Menéndez Salmón (La Nueva España)

«A propósito de Abbott es una novela inteligente, sutil, alegre.Ligera en el mejor sentido de la palabra. Una novela feliz.» Paul Viejo (Revista Mercurio)

«Un retrato mordaz, brillante y divertidísimo de la paternidad, explicación y bálsamo para la desazón que los padres a veces sienten y que normalmente no tienen el coraje suficiente de admitir. Bachelder, gracias a Dios, sí lo tiene.» The New Yorker
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Product: ESPN Quick Pitches: A Star-Studded Lineup of Original Sports Fiction
Description: Get your red-hot sports fiction right here!
QUICK PITCHES fires ten great pieces of short fiction right at the intelligent sports fan’s strike zone. Featuring authors as diverse as bestselling writer Dave Eggers and major league pitcher Miguel Batista, these stories demonstrate that sports in the post-ESPN world is no mere metaphor for life, but increasingly life itself. These tales—selected by the editors of ESPN The Magazine and McSweeney’s, and originally published in the inaugural Fiction Issue of ESPN The Magazine—range from whimsical to serious, from based-on-fact to surreal, but each one shares with the best sports literature a deep love for that place where games, memory and imagination intersect.
QUICK PITCHES includes:
Bleacher Couch Man by JESS WALTER
Perfectly capturing the teasing, banged-up banter of a group of weekend warriors, Bleacher Couch Man chronicles the belated transformation of an unemployed 42-year-old divorcee.
My Life in Baseball by DAVE EGGERS
The autobiography of a surprisingly articulate beard, whose latest gig is working the face of a San Francisco relief pitcher.
Angel Wings by SUSAN STRAIGHT
A bold piece of experimental fiction, chronicling a mother’s heartbreaking lament for her hoops-star son, senselessly shot dead at a fast-food drive-thru, then mercilessly mocked by online trolls.
Moto by WELLS TOWER
An 11-year-old boy is pressed by fate into a doomed competition with a fearless but troubled neighbor.

The Favorite by JOHN BRANDON
A financial wunderkind fallen on hard times returns to his boyhood home and concocts a small-time scheme to rebuild his bank account by framing a local football star.

What if… by JEFF PINKNER
Five counterfactual premises demonstrate that the sports history we take for granted could just as easily have been a dream.

The Kudzu League by CHRIS BACHELDER
An elegy for an obscure baseball league with finances so shaky that even a boy’s circus catch of a foul ball affects the bottom line.

The Bow-Tie Miracle by MICHAEL BIBLE
With his girlfriend in tow, a high school junior under the influence breaks into the restricted areas of Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium during a Carolina Panther game.

John Brisker’s Greatest Game by GARE JOYCE
A journalist obsessed with ABA bad-ass and black separatist John Brisker—presumed dead years before at the hands of Idi Amin—tracks him down in Monrovia, Liberia. Or does he?

The Family Business by MIGUEL BATISTA
Sixty years after her father died in an airplane crash that killed his entire baseball team, a 73-year-old grandmother in the Dominican Republic decides to introduce her grandson to the family’s brilliant, tragic past.
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Product: Abbott Awaits: A Novel (Yellow Shoe Fiction)
Description: A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder’s Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence.
In Abbott we see a modern-day Sisyphus: he is the exhausted father of a lively two-year old, the ruminative husband of a pregnant insomniac, and the confused owner of a terrified dog. Confronted by a flooded basement, a broken refrigerator, a urine-soaked carpet, and a literal snake in the woodpile, Abbott endures the beauty and hopelessness of each moment, often while contemplating evolutionary history, altruism, or the passage of time.
An expectant father and university teacher on summer break, Abbott tackles the agonizing chores of each day, laboring for peace in his household and struggling to keep his daughter clean and happy, all while staving off a fear of failure as a parent, and even as a human being. As he cleans car seats, forgets to apply sun block, clips his dog’s nails, dresses his daughter out of season, and makes unsuccessful furniture-buying trips with his wife, his mind plays out an unrelenting series of paradoxical reflections. Abbott’s pensive self-doubt comes to a head one day in late June as he cleans vomited raspberries out of his daughter’s car seat and realizes: “The following propositions are both true: (A) Abbott would not, given the opportunity, change one significant element of his life, but (B) Abbott cannot stand his life.”
Composed of small moments of domestic wonder and terror, Abbott Awaits is a charming story of misadventure, anxiety, and the everyday battles and triumphs of parenthood.
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Product: Bear v. Shark: The Novel
Description: So it's kind of like a parlor game, then?...
The question is apparently of Ancient Eastern extraction....
It seems to be a gut thing. The answer just feels right and then you come up with reasons....
Given a relatively level playing field -- i.e., water deep enough so that a Shark could maneuver proficiently, but shallow enough so that a Bear could stand and operate with its characteristic dexterity -- who would win in a fight between a Bear and a Shark?
In this brilliant satire of our media-saturated culture, the sovereign nation of Las Vegas -- the entertainment capital of the world -- is host to Bear v. Shark II. After a disappointing loss in the first matchup between the land and the sea, the bear is back with a vengeance and out for blood. All of America is obsessed with the upcoming spectacle, so tickets are hard to come by. With an essay entitled "Bear v. Shark: A Reason to Live," young Curtis Norman wins a national writing contest and four tickets to the event. The Normans load up their SUV and embark on a road trip to Vegas.
As they head cross-country, the family is besieged by a dizzying barrage of voices: television and radio personalities, public service announcements, bear and shark pundits, Freudians, theologians, and self-published authors, in addition to the Bear v. Shark fanatics, cultists, and resisters they meet at roadside gas stations and restaurants. Overwhelmed by factoids, statistics, and ten-second debates, the Normans -- along with the rest of country -- can't seem to get their facts straight, much less figure out a way to actually communicate with one another. Sound bites and verbal tics predominate; misheard, misunderstood, and just plain mistaken information is absorbed, mangled, and regurgitated to hilarious effect; and the most inane subjects -- from the disappearance of Dutch culture to the Shakespearean bias toward the bear -- are vigorously and obsessively debated. These meaningless exchanges of misinformation leave Mr. Norman disenchanted, world-weary, and ambivalent about the impending show, but the family eventually makes it to Vegas for an apocalyptic and surprisingly emotional ending.
Written in quick, commercial-like segments that mirror the media it satirizes, Chris Bachelder's debut is a fiercely funny, razor-sharp novel about the odd intersection of zealotry and trivia, about the barriers to human connection in a society that values entertainment above all else. Through a clever act of novelistic subterfuge, Bachelder makes us laugh at our penchant for absurd and useless information while drawing us into a dazzling spectacle of his own imagination.
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Product: Keyhole 10
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Product: Oso vs. Tiburón (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)
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Product: Bär gegen Hai: Roman
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Product: US ! (French Edition)
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Product: The Hotel Neversink
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Product: U.S.!: Songs and Stories
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Product: The Throwback Special: A Novel
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Product: L'infortunio
Description: Ogni anno, ventidue amici sulla quarantina si riuniscono per un weekend in un hotel senza pretese e danno vita a un irrinunciabile rituale: armati di caschi e divise rimettono in scena, sul campo di una vicina scuola, la celebre azione di una partita di football americano, quella in cui Joe Theismann, fenomenale quarterback dei Redskins, subì un infortunio che gli stroncò la carriera. Questo bizzarro rito sportivo diventa il pretesto per osservare da vicino le vite, le emozioni e le interazioni dei protagonisti: ce chi fa lo psicologo, il bibliotecario, il piccolo imprenditore; chi è un padre di famiglia, chi uno scapolo incallito; chi sta divorziando, chi invecchia male, chi coltiva il proprio fisico con successo invidiabile; ce n'è uno con il colore della pelle diverso dagli altri, uno che abbandona misteriosamente il gruppo...
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