In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people--but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice.
Through a series of five linked stories, we meet Bern, a New York City architect yearning for a return to -first principles---the -initial euphoria, the falling-in-love- that led him to consider a life devoted to sheltering others. In his ministrations to colleagues and friends, his memories of magical building feats now...
In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open...
The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people - literally, or through the rituals of labour, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madness - and people's ability to forge connections in spite of extreme conditions.
The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people - literally, or through the rituals of labo...
With Let Us Build Us a City Tracy Daugherty considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual's relationship to the world. The book reads like a master class on writing as practice, while performing a deep reading of art and life and looking to discern why liberal education matters so much to our society.
At its core, Let Us Build Us a City is a work of cultural and literary history, combining memoir (of the author's experiences as a student and teacher of literature and writing) with...
With Let Us Build Us a City Tracy Daugherty considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artis...
