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Other Press
Other Press is an independent publisher of literary fiction and nonfiction, based in New York City. Founded in 1998 to publish academic and psychoanalytic titles, Other Press has since expanded to publish novels, short stories, nonfiction, poetry, and memoirs. Dedicated to publishing literature at its finest, Other Press emphasizes storytelling and exploring the limits of knowledge and imagination. Books and authors Other Press has published books by contemporary American authors as well as translated works from around the world. They publish books from a wide range of authors such as Simon Mawer, Hervé Le Tellier, Peter Stamm, Sarah Bakewell, Michael Greenberg, Ninni Holmqvist, Michael Crummey, Atiq Rahimi, Erri De Luca, Saleem Haddad, Bruce Bauman, and Alberto Moravia.Other Press > Books/ref> Some of their best-known titles include: *Simon Mawer, '' The Glass Room'' * Sarah Bakewell, ''How to Live (biography)'' * Michael Greenberg, '' Hurry Down Sunshine'' * Ninni H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, research, technology, educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erri De Luca
Enrico "Erri" De Luca (born 20 May 1950, Naples) is an Italian novelist, translator and poet. He has been recognized by critic Giorgio De Rienzo of ''Corriere della Sera'' as "the writer of the decade". He is also known for his opposition to the Lyon-Turin high speed train line, and is being sued for having called for its sabotage. On 19 October 2015, De Luca was cleared of inciting criminal damage. He reacted to the not-guilty verdict declaring that "An injustice has been avoided." Biography Erri De Luca's original first name was Enrico ("Henry"). is an Italian version of his uncle's name, "Harry". Upon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement . After the organization's disbanding he left political involvement. He worked as a blue-collar worker at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He was also a truck driver and a mason, working at job sites in Italy, France, and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Meursault Investigation
''The Meursault Investigation'' (french: Meursault, contre-enquête) is the first novel by Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud. It is a retelling of Albert Camus' 1942 novel, '' The Stranger.'' First published in Algeria by Barzakh Editions in October 2013, it was reissued in France by Actes Sud (May 2014). Its publication in France was followed by nominations for many prizes and awards. Relationship to Camus' ''The Stranger'' Meursault, the protagonist of Albert Camus' novel '' The Stranger,'' murders a character known only as "the Arab", saying, in his trial, that the murder was a meaningless gesture caused by sunstroke or God's absence. Camus left Meursault's victim nameless, but Kamel Daoud gives him a name: Musa. ''The Meursault Investigation'' revisits these events, but from the point of view of Harun, Musa's brother. Giving a name to Meursault's nameless victim, for Daoud, is about more than just revisiting a minor character. In an interview with the ''Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamel Daoud
Kamel Daoud ( ar, كمال داود; born June 17, 1970) is a French-Algerian writer and journalist. He currently edits the French-language daily ''Le quotidien d’Oran,'' for which he writes a popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Your Opinion). The column often includes commentary on the news. Early life and education Daoud was born in Mostaganem, Algeria on June 17, 1970.Steven R. SerafinKamel Daoud ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' (March 11, 2016). The oldest of six children, he was raised in an Arabic-speaking Muslim family in Algeria. Daoud studied French literature at the University of Oran. Daoud was married but divorced in 2008, after the birth of his daughter as his wife had become increasingly religious (and started wearing the hijab). He is a father to two children (the eldest, a son, the youngest, a daughter) and dedicated his novel ''The Meursault Investigation'' to them. Journalistic career In 1994, he entered ''Le Quotidien d'Oran'', a French-language Alg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galore (novel)
''Galore'' is a 2009 novel by Michael Crummey first published by Doubleday Canada. It is about the discovery of an 18th-century Jonah in a remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, Newfoundland. Plot According to Other Press webpage, ''Galore'' concerns the following: "When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon. Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine’s Widow, with whom he has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Juda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurry Down Sunshine
''Hurry Down Sunshine'' is a best-selling 2008 memoir by nonfiction writer Michael Greenberg (writer), Michael Greenberg. The book tells the story of the author's daughter and her battle with mental illness. Reception The book received attention for both its literary style and its provocative content. In ''The New York Times'', Rachel Donadio's review focussed on Greenberg's attention to New York City, writing that the work was "filled with the kind of characters increasingly rare in a city where real kooks can no longer afford to live." Cultural critic Jacob M. Appel, Jacob Appel praised the memoir "one of those extremely rare works of literature that operates well as both a love story and a social indictment—without either aspect interfering with the dramatic force of the other." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Live (biography)
''How to Live, or a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer'' is a book by Sarah Bakewell, first published by Chatto & Windus in 2010, and by Other Press on September 20, 2011. It is about the life of the 16th-century French nobleman, wine grower, philosopher, and essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. In it, Bakewell "roughly maps out Montaigne's life against the questions he raises along the way," drawing the answers to these questions from his ''Essays''. Contents According to the book's webpage posted by Other Press, ''How to Live'' concerns the following: "How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glass Room
''The Glass Room'', by British author Simon Mawer, was published in 2009 by Other Press in the United States and Little Brown in the United Kingdom. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Summary The Landauers, a recently married couple, commission German architect Rainer von Abt to build a modern house in Brno (Czechoslovakia). The Landauer House, based on the Villa Tugendhat, becomes a minimalist masterpiece, with a transparent glass room as its center. World War II arrives, and they must flee the country, with their happiness and idealism in tatters. As the Landauers struggle abroad, their home passes through several new owners, with each new inhabitant falling under the spell of the glass room. While clearly a fiction, the book does mix fictive characters with some real historical figures, among them Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová. Reception In September 2009 ''The Glass Room'' was one of six novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia ( , ; born Alberto Pincherle ; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990) was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel '' Gli indifferenti'' (''The Time of Indifference'' 1929) and for the anti-fascist novel ''Il Conformista'' ('' The Conformist'' 1947), the basis for the film '' The Conformist'' (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are ''Agostino'', filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; '' Il disprezzo'' (''A Ghost at Noon'' or ''Contempt''), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as ''Le Mépris'' ('' Contempt'' 1963); ''La Noia'' (''Boredom''), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as '' The Empty Canvas'' in 1964 and '' La ciociara'', filmed by Vittorio De Sica as '' Two Women'' (1960). Cédric Kahn's '' L'Ennui'' (1998) is another version of ''La Noia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bauman
Bruce Bauman is an American writer. He is the author of the novels ''Broken Sleep'' (2015) and ''And The Word Was'' (2006). His work has appeared in the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Salon'', ''BOMB'', ''Bookforum'', ''Dart International Magazine'', and ''Black Clock''. He has previously been awarded the City of Los Angeles Award in literature (2008-2009), a Durfee Foundation grant, and an UNESCO/Aschberg award. Career Bauman formerly taught in CalArts's MFA Creative Writing Program and School of Critical Studies. He served as the senior editor for the literary magazine ''Black Clock'' for 13 years, from its inception to its end in 2016. Personal life Born in Brooklyn and raised in Flushing, Queens, Bauman currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the painter Suzan Woodruff. Bibliography Novels * ''And The Word Was'' (2006, ) * ''Broken Sleep ''Broken Sleep: an American Dream'' is the second novel by American writer Bruce Bauman, published in 2015. It follows the exploits of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saleem Haddad
Saleem Haddad (born 1983) is an author, filmmaker and aid worker of Iraqi-German and Palestinian-Lebanese descent, whose debut novel ''Guapa'' was published in 2016. Early life Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City in 1983 to a Lebanese-Palestinian father and an Iraqi-German mother. Haddad was subsequently raised and educated in Jordan, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Books Haddad's debut novel ''Guapa'' was released in March 2016 by Other Press. The book, set over 24 hours, tells the story of Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, and trying to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and religious upheaval. The novel was excerpted by ''VICE'', and received widespread acclaim, with ''The New Yorker'' calling it a "vibrant, wrenching début novel". According to Book Riot, "Haddad maps postcolonial theory, post-revolutionary malaise, and post-outing upheaval onto your standard post-college, what-am-I-doing-with-my-life aimlessness, creating somethi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
