On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands, and a lifetime of guilt and insecurity weighing upon his soul, he sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party--a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William Hickling Prescott and his biographer, Ticknor is a witty, fantastical study of resentment; and a biting...
On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of ...
Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you're against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn't making the city more fun for you and your friends a super-noble political goal? Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting easier? What can spam tell us about the world?
Misha Glouberman's friend and collaborator, Sheila Heti, wanted her next book to be a compilation of everything Misha knew. Together, they made...
Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you're against something e...
"Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of." David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review
"Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy." San Francisco Chronicle
"Named a Book of the Year by"
"The New York Times Book Review"," ""The New Yorker"," ""San Francisco Chronicle"," ""Salon"," ""Flavorpill"," ""The New Republic"," ""The New York Observer, The Huffington Post"
A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium a compulsive read that's like "spending a day with your new best...
"Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of." David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review
Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti's completely original stories lead you to surprising places. Globe and Mail critic Russell Smith has described Heti's stories as cryptic fairy tales without morals at the end, but really the morals are in the quality of the telling and in the details disclosed along the way. ...
Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti's completely original stories lead you to surprising places. Globe and Mail critic Rus...
Extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job and launch a career as a writer, she navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender...
Extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignmen...
