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Adventures in the Skin Trade
Andrew Sinclair

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968

Absent Friends (New Directions Paperbook, 721)

4 reviews
Frederick Busch

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1991

deeply felt
Busch is a very perceptive writer and the stories in this book is realistic fiction at its best. He possesses so much wisdom about the pragmatics of life and infuses them with humor and genuine human emotions. I especially love the story Ralph the Duck where he becomes another Holden Caulfield, a lovable loser who eventually becomes a hero. Highly recommended.

The Accompanist

1 review
Nina Berberova

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003

flawless, compact, and disturbing novella
I'm disappointed that this book is out of print, as it is one of the most beautifully written and translated works I have ever read. It is a story of what people who do for other people or because of other people and the power of personality. It is also a love story, but of an unocnventional type. The narrator/protagonist is not someone that I would normally find interesting, but the author ...

3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice (New Directions Paperbook)
Ronald Firbank

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986

An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters

1 review
Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003

Excellent
This book fills in great holes in Corso's biography. Not only do we get an account of major periods of his adulthood, but for the first time his childhood is explored. The letter to his father is especially revealing. A major biography still needs to be done of this poet, among America's most important poets, and almost certainly the most important surrealist poet America has produced. It is ...

7 Greeks

4 reviews

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995

Scrupulously accurate, thoroughly modern
This is a little book that will take your breath away. Most of the poets here survive only in tatters, rags of verse and words quoted by other authors. Yet the power that dwells in a handful of scattered words from a great verse is poetry itself, like haiku. Sappho and Archilochos read as though they could have been contemporaries of Ted Hughes. The key here is Davenport, a man of incredible ...

62: A Model Kit

5 reviews
Julio Cortazar

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000

Enter this labyrinth if you dare
The way in is through a looking-glass that is also a vampire-haunted castle and at the sa e time a city that is all cities. Be forewarned that once you have entered the Zone, you will never completely leave it. You will find yourself in its shadowed galleries, its furtive plazas, its unpredictable elevators, from time to time for the rest of your life. You will ask questions that will never be ...

4 by Pelevin

1 review
Victor Pelevin

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001

A major disappointment ... the usual high quality Pelevin
Why disappointing? Because when I ordered it, I expected new stories rather than reprints from The Blue Lantern (see it for a review of the stories). However, if you've never read Pelevin, this is a small collection to get you started. The mystical chickens Hermit and Six-Toes are unforgettable. A commune from the perspective of a shed, the transformation of public bathrooms to trinket store ...

Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems
Hans Faverey, Eliot Weinberger

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004

A stunning selection of poems from the great twentieth-century Dutch poet. Against the Forgetting presents the work of an important twentieth-century Dutch poet, Hans Faverey. The first extensive selection of his poetry in English, this collection brings together poems from his eight published volumes of poetry spanning the years 1968 to 1990—the last volume, Default, he received only two days before his death. In addition, a selection ...

All the Poems of Muriel Spark

2 reviews
Muriel Spark

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004

Muriel Spark: A Poet Beyond Competence
Really enjoyed All the Poems of Muriel Spark. Her work is intelligent, witty and not at all concerned with what reviewers on either side of the Atlantic might think. And evidently, Ms. Spark felt that way for over sixty years. Compared to the gobbledygook verse being shoveled our way by legions trained poets, these poems, which come from all periods of Ms. Spark's writing career, truly delight, ...

Aller Retour New York (Revived Modern Classics)

2 reviews
Henry Miller

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1993

A voyage with Miller
Aller Retour New York.. This book was written between the time of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. If you are unknown to Henry Miller, I highly recommend that you read Tropic of Cancer first. In this short but good book, Miller reflects on the gay time he has while he is home visiting New York and getting ready to travel back to Paris. His writting style is more like a journal than a ...

All the Stories of Muriel Spark

1 review
Muriel Spark

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001

"We Haven't Got the Savage In Ourselves Under Control"
All The Stories of Muriel Spark (2000) is the latest edition of novelist's short fiction; four stories have been added since the book was released as Open to the Public: New & Collected Stories in 1997. The new edition is fully warranted, as Spark remains one of the greatest short story writers in English of her time, a fact rarely acknowledged in the literary world. Best known as the author ...

Albert Angelo

3 reviews
B. S. Johnson

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987

a minor classic by an experimental english writer
Albert Angelo tells the story of an aspiring London architect in the 1960s who is forced to earn a living by teaching in rough inner-City schools. This was Johnson's second novel and he displays some of the experiments and techniques for which he is famous - splitting the page between the inner thoughts and spoken words of a character, for example. Towards the end of the book the author ...

Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book)

3 reviews
Walter Abish

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1974

Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
Alliterative Analogies, assertively assembled, appear aplenty, appropriately, apt and artful, absorbing attention ad infinitum. This could be a fitting summary of Abish's stunningly "now" novel, written almost a quarter of a century ago with a linguistic device concocted between Kabbala and alliteration. Chapter 1 is composed with words beginning only with the letter A, Chapter 2 with A and B ...

All the Conspirators (New Directions Paperbook;)
Christopher Isherwood

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1979

In the Kensington of the 1920s - silver frames, inlaid bureaux, charming sitting-rooms - the 'conspirators', Philip and Joan, fight to throw off the oppressive power of their mother.

All Souls

6 reviews
Javier Marias

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000

Only read this book if you love literature
Only read this book if you love literature. Marias is the type of gifted writer who makes telling compelling stories 'look easy,' and thus inspires us to wish that we had written down our own adventures, perceptions, and loves. Although it is fiction, it caused quite an uproar at Oxford/Cambridge, because the professors there read themselves into the book's characters. All Souls, from the ...

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

8 reviews
Henry Miller

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970

'But the ashes are still warm.'
In reading Henry Miller's surprisingly contemporary 'The Air-Conditioned Nightmare I experienced the same kind of desire to 'see' America as I did when reading Kerouac's 'On the Road', but for very different reasons. While Kerouac's narrative was that of his experiences with people he encountered along his way while traversing the country, Miller seems most at ease in dozens of miles of ...

Alphabet (New Directions)

1 review
Inger Christensen

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001

Classical form and contemporary images
Inger Christensen's Alphabet is a modern marvel: within the imposed form of the order of the alphabet, she constructs widely varying images, everyday-ish, fanciful, delicate, startling. "Constructs" may be the wrong verb because the language and the images appear effortlessly produced, as if they were simply evoked, although the most cursory look at the the collection shows the poet's painstaking ...

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