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Dept. of Speculation

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 130

From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage--a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vogue.com, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. “Dept. of Speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life—a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled ambitions. When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking everything from Kafka to the Stoics to doomed Russian cosmonauts as she analyzes what is lost and what remains. In language that shimmers with rage and longing and wit, Offill has created a brilliantly suspenseful love story—a novel to read in one sitting, even ...

Departamento de Especulaciones

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 172

Cuando se conocieron eran jóvenes y estaban llenos de esperanza. Aunque ambos vivían en Nueva York, solían enviarse cartas en las que imaginaban cómo sería su futuro. El remitente era siempre el mismo: "Departamento de especulaciones". Se casaron, tuvieron un hijo y sortearon como pudieron los pequeños obstáculos de la vida familiar. Pero imperceptiblemente algo ha ido cambiando. Han aparecido miedos y dudas que ponen en cuestión todo cuanto tienen. En un intento de encontrar el punto en el que se equivocaron de rumbo, la esposa echa la vista atrás para tratar de adivinar qué se ha perdido y qué puede salvarse todavía

Last Things

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 274

Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace's world, of fact and fiction, marvels and madness, is slowly unraveling because her family is coming apart before her eyes. Now eight-year-old Grace must choose between her two very different, very flawed parents, a choice that will take her on a dizzying journey, away from her home in Vermont to the boozy, flooded streets of New Orleans--and into the equally wondrous and frightening realm of her own imagination. With eloquence and compassion, Jenny Offill weaves a luminous story of a wounded family and of a young girl yearning to understand the difference between fiction, fact, and hope. A novel of vibrant imagination and searing intelligence, Last Things is a stunning literary achievement.

Clima

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 153

«Una obra maestra total. La novela perfecta para el fin del mundo.» Los Angeles Times «Una novela absolutamente excepcional, quizá el retrato más potente de la Norteamérica de Trump.» The Guardian Lizzie Benson es bibliotecaria en Brooklyn. Divide sus atenciones entre su hijo Eli, su marido Ben y su hermano Henry, que se está recuperando de su adicción a la droga. Además, ayuda a una antigua profesora con el abundante correo que recibe por su exitoso podcast sobre cambio climático, un tema que atrae a extremistas de todo tipo: desde aquellos que se preparan para el fin del mundo hasta los que afirman que la civilización cristiana occidental está en peligro. Y aunque Lizzie intenta ser positiva, ni las clases de meditación ni los consejos que extrae de los estantes de la biblioteca consiguen calmar su inquietud por la situación de su hermano y por la furia que percibe en su entorno. Tras el fenómeno que supuso Departamento de especulaciones, Jenny Offill vuelve a desplegar su prosa mordaz e inteligente y su exquisita construcción fragmentaria para construir una historia que captura a la perfección el clima sentimental y político, el caos y las contradicciones, en ...

Weather

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 136

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD An obligatory note of hope, in a world going to hell Lizzie Benson, a part-time librarian, is already overwhelmed with the crises of daily life when an old mentor offers her a job answering mail from the listeners of her apocalyptic podcast, Hell and High Water. Soon questions begin pouring in from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of Western civilization. Entering this polarized world, Lizzie is forced to consider who she is and what she can do to help: as a mother, as a wife, as a sister, and as a citizen of this doomed planet. "This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy" - Ocean Vuong

While You Were Napping

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 41

In this hilarious read-aloud featuring robots, fire trucks, and pirates, meet an older sister who’s more than happy to fill her little brother in on all he missed while he was napping. Since none of the other neighborhood kids had to nap, they came over. Then came the robots, and of course the astronauts. It was tons of fun . . . and luckily for the boy (right?!), he slept through it all! Here’s a picture book that is sure to ring true in every family with more than one child. With minimal text and raucous illustrations, this laugh-out-loud, spot-on picture book is also a perfect portrait of a mischievous kid at her imaginative best.

11 Experiments That Failed

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 41

"This is a most joyful and clever whimsy, the kind that lightens the heart and puts a shine on the day," raved Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. Is it possible to eat snowballs doused in ketchup—and nothing else—all winter? Can a washing machine wash dishes? By reading the step-by-step instructions, kids can discover the answers to such all-important questions along with the book's curious narrator. Here are 12 "hypotheses," as well as lists of "what you need," "what to do," and "what happened" that are sure to make young readers laugh out loud as they learn how to conduct science experiments (really!). Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter—the ingenious pair that brought you 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore—have outdone themselves in this brilliant and outrageously funny book.

Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild

Autor: Maria Boletsi , Tyler Sage

Número de Páginas: 269

Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency. Through questionable historical comparisons, politicians and journalists evoke barbaric or primitive forces threatening civilization in order to exacerbate the fear of others, diagnose civilizational decline, or feed nostalgic restorative projects. These evocations often demand that forms of oppression, discrimination, and violence be continued or renewed. In this context, the collected essays explore the dispossessing effects of these figures but also their capacities for reimagining subjectivity, agency, and resistance to contemporary forms of power. Emphasizing intersections of the aesthetic and the political, these essays read canonical works alongside contemporary literature, film, art, music, and protest cultures. They interrogate the violent histories but also the subversive potentials of figures barbarous, monstrous, or wild, while illustrating the risks in affirmative resignifications or new mobilizations. Contributors: Sophie van den Bergh, Maria Boletsi, Siebe...

Monstruos

Autor: Claire Dederer

Número de Páginas: 460

¿Cómo nos relacionamos con el arte en la era de la cancelación? ¿Podemos llegar a amar al genio y su obra a la vez que detestamos al monstruo? Un inteligente ensayo que nos enfrenta a nuestros dilemas morales y contradicciones. ¿Podemos apreciar la obra de artistas como Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Miles Davis, Polanski, Woody Allen o Picasso? ¿Deberíamos? La escritora Claire Dederer se propuso indagar en la relación que tenemos con la obra de aquellos artistas a quienes admiramos, al tiempo que lidiamos moralmente con su personalidad, en ocasiones monstruosa. Desde Michael Jackson hasta Virginia Woolf, la autora se cuestiona cómo conciliar nuestra indignación y desprecio con el amor profundo que sentimos por el arte. Y va más allá: ¿la monstruosidad masculina equivale a la femenina? ¿Si una artista es también madre, una identidad rompe fatalmente con la otra? Este libro, precedido de un gran éxito de crítica, ahonda en la disonancia cognitiva propia de una época en la que hemos dejado de transigir ante el genio por la mera razón de serlo, pero plantea también importantes reflexiones sobre la pervivencia de su obra y sobre su concepción misma: dado que el arte...

Weather

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 225

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation comes a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink—she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction—but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.

Bureau des spéculations

Autor: Jenny Offill

Número de Páginas: 160

Bureau des spéculations est la radiographie d'une histoire d'amour. L'héroïne de ce roman, appelée simplement "la femme", adresse à son mari des lettres au dos desquelles elle indique, en guise d'expéditeur : "Bureau des spéculations". Ils se sont rencontrés, ils se sont aimés, ont fondé une famille, mais les fissures apparaissent. Elle a oublié ses rêves, est écrasée par les aléas de son quotidien - un logement insalubre, un bébé qui souffre de coliques, un deuxième roman qu'elle n'arrive pas à écrire, l'infidélité. Alors elle s'en remet à la sagesse des savants et des grands auteurs. Pour expliquer ou apaiser son mal-être face à l'expérience dévorante de l'amour maternel, éviter d'être engloutie par ses angoisses, et tenter de soumettre la vie domestique aux exigences de l'art. Pour se sauver elle-même et, peut-être, sauver son couple du naufrage annoncé. Chef-d'oeuvre de concision, Bureau des spéculations se dévore d'une seule traite. Dans une langue d'où sourdent la rage, l'ironie et le désir, Jenny Offill dissémine des souvenirs parcellaires, des maximes littéraires, des bribes de chansons ou de conversations. Au lecteur de suivre le fil...

The Risk Of Us

Autor: Rachel Howard

Número de Páginas: 213

Nearly half a million children are in foster care. Most placements fail. Will seven-year-old Maresa's? "It starts with a face in a binder. CHILDREN AVAILABLE, reads the cover." So begins Rachel Howard's intimate and heartbreaking novel about a couple hoping to adopt a child from foster care, then struggling to make it as a family. Seven-year-old Maresa arrives with an indomitable spirit, a history of five failed foster care "placements," and a susceptibility to angry panic attacks fueled by memories of abuse. Maresa's new foster mother, whose name the reader never learns, brings good intentions but also her own history of trauma, while her husband's heart condition threatens to explode. These three flawed but deeply human characters want more than anything to love each other--but how does a person get to unconditional love? Over the course of a year, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place, all three must discover if they can move from being three separate people to a true family—or whether, almost unthinkably, the adoption will fail. Written in a spare and thought-provoking style evoking aspects of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk, The Risk...

Cover Story

Autor: Susan Rigetti

Número de Páginas: 368

Netflix’s Inventing Anna and Hulu’s The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist’s scam. A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland, E!, Fortune, PopSugar, and more! “It’s exciting, it’s surprising, it’s satisfying, it’s darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing.”—Linda Holmes for Today.com After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat’s solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat’s suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora’s life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true....

Money Changes Everything

Autor: Jenny Offill , Elissa Schappell

Número de Páginas: 328

We talk openly about our romantic disasters and family dramas, our problems at work and our battles with addiction. But when it comes to what is or is not in our wallets, we remain determinedly mum. Until now, that is. MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING is the first anthology of its kind—an unflinching and on-the-record collection of essays filled with entertaining, enlightening insights into why we spend, save, and steal. In these wide-ranging personal essays, Daniel Handler, Walter Kirn, Jill McCorkle, Meera Nair, Henry Alford, Susan Choi, and other acclaimed authors write with startling candor about how money has strengthened or undermined their closest relationships. Isabel Rose talks about the trials and tribulations of dating as an heiress. Tony Serra explains what led him to take a forty-year vow of poverty. 9/11 widow Marian Fontana illuminates the heartbreak and moral complexities of victim compensation. Jonathan Dee reveals the debt that nearly did him in. And in paired essays, Fred Leebron and his wife, Kathryn Rhett, discuss the way fights over money have shaken their marriage to the core again and again. The pieces in MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING range from the comic to the...

Neruda on the Park

Autor: Cleyvis Natera

Número de Páginas: 353

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification “Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos. Meanwhile, Eusebia’s daughter, Luz, a rising associate at a top Manhattan law firm who strives to live the bougie lifestyle her parents worked hard to give her, becomes distracted by a sweltering romance with the handsome white developer at the company her mother so vehemently opposes. As Luz’s father, Vladimir, secretly designs their retirement home in the Dominican...

Meatspace

Autor: Nikesh Shukla

Número de Páginas: 271

The second novel from Costa First Novel Award shortlisted author Nikesh Shukla.

The Publishers Weekly

Número de Páginas: 956

Story

Número de Páginas: 140

The New Yorker

Autor: Harold Wallace Ross , William Shawn , Tina Brown , Katharine Sergeant Angell White , David Remnick , Rea Irvin , Roger Angell

Número de Páginas: 788