Recueil de contes humoristiques.

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From Publishers Weekly

Jack Murnighan, former editor-in-chief of sex-friendly Web site Nerve.com, gathers short erotic excerpts from works by more than 70 authors from the Marquis de Sade to Thomas Pynchon, Sappho to Jeanette Winterson, Ovid to J.G. Ballard. Culled from his popular weekly online column, The Naughty Bits (also Brit slang for genitalia) is billed as "the book that literary perverts have been waiting for." One of several recent Nerve.com tie-ins, it's a great idea and one needn't be especially literary or perverted to enjoy it. Murnighan's thoroughly good-natured, erudite introductions add to the bawdy fun.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Most people don't read a good book or have great sex nearly as often as they should; then again, most people don't know that the Great Works e.g., Joyce's Ulysses, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and Plato's The Symposium are as rife with "naughty bits" as a frat house is with hormones. The general public has Murnighan, former editor-in-chief of the popular sex web-zine Nerve.com, to thank for gleaning the gamut of world literature for amorous interludes, from the painfully romantic to the puke-inducing. Murnighan first excerpted these findings in the web site's "Naughty Bits" column, of which the cr me de la cr me is collected here. Besides giants like Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, Dante, and Herman Melville, lesser-knowns, such as 1960s French teen novelist Catherine Breillant, medieval English autobiographer Margery Kempe, and lesbian playwright Holly Hughes, make appearances alongside contemporary cads Larry Flynt and Kenneth Starr. Almost more savory than the wildly varied extracts are Murnighan's learned prefaces. The fan of erotica, the student of literature, and the aspiring sex worker will all relate to his language, a strangely seamless mix of lit crit and potty talk. Highly recommended for erotica collections and larger world literature collections. Heather McCormack, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.

A collection of ten dark stories from Horror Writers Association member Aaron Polson. Witness hotels with shifting rooms...carnivorous beetles bent on devouring a sleepy mountain town...vindictive spirits with beautiful eyes...an undead Marine on his return from Iraq...a pond full of restless dead in the title story, and more.

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Het leven zit vol gevaar en droefenis maar biedt soms ook onverwachte troost en vermaak. Ligt de dood weer eens grijnzend op de loer vanaf een Amsterdams fietspad? Jammer, maar je ontkomt dan wél aan het schoonmaken van een balkon vol kattendrollen. Ja, David Bowie, ooit de aantrekkelijkste man ter wereld, is onherroepelijk oud geworden en zingt zijn beverige zwanenzang. Maar de geur van versgebakken vis op de Dappermarkt maakt veel goed. Of anders een afgeluisterd gesprek over koek en trouw tussen verliefde eenvoudigen van geest.
Soms lijkt alles wel mee te vallen, tot je de boze inwoners van Rectum over je heen krijgt. Of tot je kinderen je ritmisch `Yo, fat bitch toezingen, met een vrolijk muziekje erbij, dat dan weer wel; of tot je oude foto s van jezelf terugvindt en ontdekt dat je vroeger jong en mooi was. Zonder het te weten. En nu is het te laat.
Niet iedereen heeft oog, neus of oor voor de vaak absurde smarten en emolumenten des levens, laat staan de woorden. Gelukkig is daar altijd weer Sylvia Witteman, weergaloze stadsflaneur en chroniqueur van het leven van alledag.
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Verzameling van ruim honderd columns die eerder in de Volkskrant zijn verschenen. De columns hebben betrekking op het werk en leven van de auteur met haar partner en drie kinderen. Het zijn beschrijvingen van momenten, situaties, ervaringen en bespiegelingen die ontstaan naar aanleiding van een gebeurtenis of observatie. Er komt van alles aan de orde, zoals het bijwonen van een concert in een theater, kleding kopen, Bevrijdingsdag, schoolzwemmen, het maken van een werkstuk, papadag, Marokkaanse meisjes en veel observaties in Amsterdam, zoals het bezoek van een Venlose vrouw aan de stad en het huren van een fiets. Elke column beslaat minder dan twee pagina’s. Ze roepen vaak herkenning op en zijn door de verrassende wending of de persoonlijke ontboezeming aan het einde goed voor een glimlach. Leuke, humoristische columns, vol zelfspot en geschreven in een vlotte stijl. Normale druk.
Felix Meijer
(source: Bol.com)

Le Moine noir - Un philosophe obsédé par une légende refuse la médiocrité des gens raisonnables et sombre dans la folie. L'Effroi - D'autres intellectuels brisent comme lui leur vie familiale, trouvant la vie incompréhensible. La Vieille Maison - On se noie dans l'alcool, dans l'attente d'un avenir meilleur. Le Mendiant - On se tire parfois de la misère grâce au travail. Le Pari - Un pari fou mêne à une réflexion sur le sens de la vie et la liberté. Faits divers - On partage les rêves d'un bagnard en fuite, ceux d'un pauvre cordonnier qui vend son âme. On retrouve le Petit Poucet dans l'aventure d'Anioûtka la petite... Ce recueil nous permet aussi de découvrir un Tchékhov drôle. Comique et satire sociale se mêlent dans plusieurs récits. Il vaut mieux ne pas être un contrôleur zélé - Ah! Public!, aimer l'ordre à l‘excès - Le Sous-off Prichibêiév, dire ce que l'on pense - De mal en pis, demander un renseignement sans graisser la patte du fonctionnaire - Le Renseignement. L'instruction sauve-t-elle vraiment les hommes? On rit beaucoup en lisant L'Examen pour le rang, Le Point d'exclamation, Beaucoup de papier, La Lecture ou Le Portier intelligent. Enfin beaucoup de récits sont du pur théâtre comique - L'Orateur ou comment faire l'éloge funèbre d'un vivant, L'Écrivain ou l'art de la pub, La Fermentation des esprits ou comment un vol d'oiseaux prend des proportions inouïes. Enfin MM. les indigènes est une pièce en deux actes sur «l‘efficacité» d'une tour de gué. Tchékhov ne prend jamais parti, il se contente d'observer, souvent avec drôlerie, la quotidienneté, la monotonie des jours en province.

First short story collection by PUNKTOWN author, featuring the best of his early works.

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.

Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; Terminator 2 and The Best of the Prose Poem; the nature of being a fiction writer and the quandary of defining the essay; the best underappreciated novels and the English language's most irksome misused words; and much more.

Both Flesh and Not restores Wallace's essays as originally written, and it includes a selection from his personal vocabulary list, an assembly of unusual words and definitions.

From Booklist

This posthumous volume, appearing in the wake of D. T. Max’s much-discussed biography of Wallace, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story (2012), gathers 15 previously uncollected essays. Six are book reviews, 3 discuss the contemporary state or art of writing, 2 address tennis, and 1 is about Terminator 2. The remainder cover a range of Wallace’s wide-eyed, “isn’t it weird we take things like ad space at the U.S. Open for granted” subjects and scarily astute criticism. Published originally between 1988 and 2007, these essays demonstrate Wallace’s interdisciplinary approach to both pop culture and abstruse academic discourse. For instance, his formal training in symbolic logic informs his opinion of two, in-his-opinion awful, math novels, Philibert Schogt’s The Wild Numbers (2000) and Apostolos Doxiadis’ Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture (2000), while his familiarity with the actual life and cranium-crunching philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein lends perspective to his appreciation of David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988). For Wallace devotees, these essays are required reading. For everyone else, they’re sometimes tough to get into but entirely worth the exertion. --Diego Báez

From Bookforum

Both Flesh and Not is David Foster Wallace at his best and his worst, but the thing about Wallace’s best was that it usually contained his worst... If he’s not going to court the reader, he’s going to hold him in contempt. And you’re going to listen to him because his is the most colossal intelligence in the room. —Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Wolfe's brilliant first book -- a collection of essays that introduced us to the Sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

SUMMARY: Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Shirley Bassey, Estee Lauder and Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.