TODAY: In 1952, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is published by Random House.
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FROM A LEGENDARY AVANT-GARDE POET
A landmark collection from Kim Hyesoon, the grand dame of contemporary Korean poetry, documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date. Features 34 drawings by the artist Fi Jae Li.
Award-winning author and beloved teacher Ausubel offers 101 exercises that promise to welcome you back to the page again and again. Say goodbye to writer’s block because “Unstuck can’t help but unstick you!” –Pam Houston.
“Ondaatje’s whole career has tended toward this condition of late collection, of a memory that lacks a story, and sustains itself only on sensoria and images.” Ben Libman on Michael Ondaatje’s poetry. | Poetry
From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites.
