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    Milk Fed
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and moreA Most-Anticipated Selection by Vogue * Refinery29 * Vulture * BuzzFeed * Harper's Bazaar * O, The Oprah Magazine * The Millions * Literary Hub * The Rumpus * Publishers Weekly and moreA scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today.Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting-until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.Early in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam-by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family-and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche-both sacred and profane.
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    Olga Dies Dreaming
    New York Times Bestseller MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 by TIME, HipLatina, Parade, The Rumpus, Angela Lashbrook, Vogue.com, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Bustle, Kirkus, Book Riot, Popsugar, Barnes & Noble, The Stacks, Russh, Boston Globe, and more! "Don't underestimate this new novelist. She's jump-starting the year with a smart romantic comedy that lures us in with laughter and keeps us hooked with a fantastically engaging story." -The Washington Post A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots-all in the wake of Hurricane Maria It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1 percent but she can't seem to find her own. . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets. Olga and Prieto's mother, Blanca, a Young Lord turned radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Xochitl Gonzalez's Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the very notion of the American dream-all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.
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    A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves-and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • "[A] worship song to writers and readers."-Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, "We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?" He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
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    Detransition, Baby
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The lives of three women-transgender and cisgender-collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in "one of the most celebrated novels of the year" (Time) "Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand."-Vulture LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Vogue, BuzzFeed, New York Public Library, Esquire, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Self, Vulture, Electric Lit, PopSugar, Town & Country, Shelf Awareness, The Rumpus, Autostraddle, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage • Longlisted for The Women's Prize • Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick • New York Times Editors' Choice Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese-and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby-and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it-Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family-and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.
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    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. "A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam - and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!
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    Two Brown Dots
    1. First printing: 2,000 copies. 2. Danni Quintos is the winner of the 20th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, which was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. This is her debut full-length poetry collection. 3. This title is part of BOA's New Poets of America Series, which have seen strong sales in recent seasons by such authors as Chen Chen and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Previous Poulin winners in this series have seen outstanding attention from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Rumpus, Forward Reviews, etc. 4. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil will write the Foreword for the collection, and her name will appear on the cover. Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments (Milkweed, 2020), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's Book of the Year for 2020. She is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic (Copper Canyon, 2018), Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011), At The Drive-in Volcano (Tupelo Press, 2007), and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo, 2003). 5. Danni Quintos tackles the hot-button topics of race, gender, immigration, and identity from a Filipina/x-American perspective. The poems in this collection explore what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky through the memories of girlhood, motherhood, family history, and Phillipine folklore. In the author's words: "It is an antidote to the definition of 'American' as 'white.' It means to carve out a space and let readers know that we exist, we belong, we are from here and will continue to be." 6. Quintos is a Kentuckian, a mom, an educator, and an Affrilachian Poet who studied with Ellen Hagan, Mitchell L. H. Douglas and Kelly Norman Ellis. She received her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University and currently serves as a Humanities Instructor at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. 7. Quintos's writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2015, Cream City Review, Day One, Pluck!, Salon, and in the chapbook PYTHON (Argus House, 2017), which features photography by her sister, Shelli Quintos. 8. Strong subject appeal for feminist studies, AAPI studies, multiethnic studies, and folklore studies, as well as courses on immigration, identity, race, gender, and intersectional identities. 9. Strong regional appeal in Kentucky/Appalachia, the South, the Pacific Northwest, the West Coast, and cities with large multiethnic/Filipina/Filipinx communities.
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    Parenting Wild Things
    Parenting Wild Things - Embracing the Rumpus: ab 10.49 €
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    After All These Years
    This album is a collection of songs written over a period of eleven months in two different studios, in two different locations in Australia. The basis of the album began in Clare SA (Greenhaven Mobile Cottage Recordings) and the tracks were edited and remixed in Sydney NSW. The final vocals and mixes were also done in Sydney. The founder members of Nattai, Billy, Trish and Lindsay have continued to collaborate on their musical tracks, even after the live performances ended in the early 90's. Not entirely satisfied with their earlier releases, controlled by engineers and independent studios, Lindsay Askew (Clubdred Studio Sydney NSW) decided to further develop his interest in recording and producing, which has led to many amazing tracks, some of which, have featured on local radio, with a myriad of artists clambering for his input into their creative works. (Lindsay is AKA Lindsay Carlos Santana Askew - brilliant guitarist, not that he would ever admit to it!!!!) Geoff Oaks, a well respected player, fine musician and incredibly funny man has continued to support Nattai's music by adding his amazing sax lines to the never ending list of new songs. Alec Tundervary (DJ Rapt) has had quite a bit of input into this latest release with some great remixes of the original tracks and the odd vocal harmony thrown in for good measure. Digeridoo player, guitarist and singer song writer Scott Harrow lent his amazing talent to the track Diji Man. He is currently on a spiritual journey in Byron Bay. Billy and Trish like to perform live locally for community events and Michael (Trish's husband) bass player extraordinaire supports their 25 year partnership in musical escapades. Originally from Cardiff Wales, Billy started his musical career as a roady with many of the 60's bands touring the UK. He didn't discover he had a talent for singing and harmonica until he partnered with 'Ruscoe' in Torquay in the early 80's as the Jack Daniels Duo. Trish joined them shortly after when they became the JD Trio. Trish had been singing in a local Devon folk group called Rumpus, who released 'Songs From The South Hams Coastline' and also the trio Aqua Track which featured Lord George Villiers on guitar. Billy and Trish moved to Adelaide Australia in the late 80's and continued their journey with bands named The Light Factory, Karoubra, The Jack Daniels Band, Tigerbay, The Liquidators, The Riot Squad and eventually Nattai. The name Nattai was originally derived from an anagram of their daughter Natasha's name but it soon became known that it was also an aboriginal name meaning water. Billy checked with the local Aboriginal Elders in Sydney that it was okay to use the name and they gave it their blessing. After nearly 3 decades of performing Billy and Trish continue to amuse delight and inspire audiences of all ages and hope to continue till the day they drop! Their earlier releases have been compiled into a double CD collectors album, soon to be released for posterity and although they have not previously been picked up by the major record labels, the band will make use of modern technology to continue to write, record and update their releases in the future. Enjoy this collection of songs for what it is, honest, truthful music which is equally as good live as it is in it's recorded state. Thanks for listening. X.
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