Ken T.'s Picks
$16.95
ISBN: 9780679731375
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Published: Vintage - November 27th, 1990
Ten short stories with no recurring characters, whose settings include Noah’s Ark, an archeological expedition, and Heaven; a little essay; and a reproduction of a painting. It doesn’t sound like a novel, much less a history of the world, but it really is both.
$14.95
ISBN: 9780811222167
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Published: New Directions - April 19th, 2016
This short novel is one monologue by a man speeding through the French countryside intending to crash his sportscar—with his daughter and his wife’s lover in the backseat—into a stone wall, and it’s among the least disquieting of Hawkes’ unyieldingly lyrical fiction.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780399592706
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Published: One World - April 6th, 2021
My favorite nonfiction of this year so far: Essays full of tension between love, obligation, rebellion and violence that inform a bigger picture of everyday injustice. The author insists she’s not a proper journalist, but her observations articulated through the immediacy of her voice constantly tell you otherwise.