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The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student.Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, encouragement, and sense of possibility that help...

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From the renowned president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hidden sexuality at a New England boys' boarding school.Sam has spent more than half his life at the prestigious Leverett high school, which lies at the heart of an affluent Connecticut town of the same name. First as a student in the late 1960s, before coeducation, then as an English teacher after Harvard and Oxford, he developed a keen sense of lo...

An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation. Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. These poems-decisive, wrenching, exquisite-show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a...

>Die Muse< von Jonathan Galassi: Eine Liebeserklärung an alle, die Bücher schreiben, verlegen und vor allem - lesen! New York in den Sechzigern: Geld war nicht nur Papier, Bücher hatten Substanz, Buchhandlungen waren Oasen. Der Verleger Homer Stern residiert in einem schäbigen Büro und sucht unter all den Manuskripten nach Schätzen. Diese missgönnt er vor allem seinem Rivalen Sterling Wainwright, dessen wichtigste Autorin, die Dichterin Ida ...

In these pages, Jonathan Galassi-the longtime publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux-gives us an extraordinarily sensitive, satirically sharp novel set in the world of books that he knows so well. At the center is Paul Dukach, editor-in-chief and heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of New York's last great independent publishing houses. But despite all his success, Paul remains obsessed with the writer who got away: the poet Ida Perkins, who...

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But though things can be shaky in the age of conglomerates and ebooks, Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have shaped America`s contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher - also her cousin and erstwhile lover - happens to be Homer's biggest rival.

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Paul Dukach è destinato a raccogliere l'eredità di Homer Stern, uno degli ultimi editori indipendenti di New York, che in mezzo secolo ha saputo costruire un catalogo importante. Approdato negli uffici polverosi della casa editrice P&S, , in Union Square, Paul impara dal suo capo, spregiudicato e spavaldo, come muoversi nell'affascinante mondo dei libri, come conquistare un agente letterario nello spazio di un pranzo, come destreggiarsi tra gl...

Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) spent the last four years of his life living in Bordeaux with other political "emigres" from Spain and South America. In those years he created small-scale, intimate pieces, including uncommissioned portraits of friends and family, miniature paintings on ivory plaques, and numerous drawings and lithographs. These works attest to the artist's continuing vitality in his old age and also offer insigh...

The story of the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions over the work of an iconic female poet. A love letter to the people who write, sell - and, above all, read - the books that shape our lives.

In these pages, Jonathan Galassi gives us an extraordinarily sensitive, satirically sharp novel set in the world of books that he knows so well. At the center is Paul Dukach, editor-in-chief and heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of New Yorks last great independent publishing houses.

Paul Dukach è destinato a raccogliere l'eredità di Homer Stern, uno degli ultimi editori indipendenti di New York, che in mezzo secolo ha saputo costruire un catalogo importante. Approdato negli uffici polverosi della casa editrice P&S, , in Union Square, Paul impara dal suo capo, spregiudicato e spavaldo, come muoversi nell'affascinante mondo dei libri, come conquistare un agente letterario nello spazio di un pranzo, come destreggiarsi tra gl...