The Best of the Lifted Brow

The Best of the Lifted Brow
Author: Alexander Bennetts
Publisher: Brow Books
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0994606877
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The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Twocelebrates five more years of the most idiosyncratic literary journal from Australia. The anthology includes essays on queer life, Aboriginal history, and the adult industry, as well as fiction that rewrites the Australian literary canon and poetry from some of the world’s best. Volume Two features distinguished names from Australia and the world, such as Fiona Wright, Eileen Myles, Paola Balla, Peter Polites, Margo Lanagan, Upulie Divisekera, Darren Hanlon, Ryan O’Neill, and Margaret Atwood. It also features the winner of the inaugural Prize for Experimental Nonfiction, several acclaimed longform essays, plus writing from Brow Books authors Briohny Doyle (The Island Will Sink, 2016) and Shaun Prescott (The Town, 2017). This book is a perfect entry-point into the most interesting elements of Australia’s current literary culture, Volume Two is diverse, exciting, and isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions – an eclectic and significant collection that captures the sharp sense of humour and experimental sensibility for which the magazine is best known. Volume Two is a follow-up to The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume One (2013) which collected the best work from the first five years of The Lifted Brow magazine. ____ “The Lifted Brow regularly produces fresh and dynamic work from some of Australia's most talented writers and artists. Here, they have gathered together creative work absolutely vital to our cultural heartbeat.” Tony Birch, author of Ghost River, Blood and Shadowboxing “The Lifted Brow raises hackles with the freshest writing around. This collection is a marvellous showcase of this work.” Phillip Adams, commentator and broadcaster "How lucky we are to have The Lifted Brow – a game changer from its inception and an incubator for some of the world’s most compelling storytellers." Michelle Law, writer and screenwriter

Unflattening

Unflattening
Author: Nick Sousanis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-04-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0674744438
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The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint. Weaving together diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, it uses the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points. While its vibrant, constantly morphing images occasionally serve as illustrations of text, they more often connect in nonlinear fashion to other visual references throughout the book. They become allusions, allegories, and motifs, pitting realism against abstraction and making us aware that more meets the eye than is presented on the page. In its graphic innovations and restless shape-shifting, Unflattening is meant to counteract the type of narrow, rigid thinking that Sousanis calls “flatness.” Just as the two-dimensional inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott’s novella Flatland could not fathom the concept of “upwards,” Sousanis says, we are often unable to see past the boundaries of our current frame of mind. Fusing words and images to produce new forms of knowledge, Unflattening teaches us how to access modes of understanding beyond what we normally apprehend.

Car Crash

Car Crash
Author: Lech Blaine
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1771648651
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In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a young man navigates small-town gossip, grief and recovery amidst a culture of toxic masculinity. “A heart-soaring act of literary bravery,” Car Crash is a hopeful, raw coming-of-age story for our times (Trent Dalton). “Bruisingly insightful.”—The Guardian • “Delivers from the first arresting page.”—Inside Story • “Moving, lyrical, warmly told and very funny.”—Brooke Davis, author of Lost & Found • “Shines with a fierce intelligence.”—Kristina Olsson, author of Shell Why did he get to live, and not them? This question has plagued Lech Blaine ever since he was a teenager, when he got into a car that never arrived at its destination. Of his crew of friends who were in the car, Blaine was the only passenger who made it out unscathed. In the aftermath of the accident that sent shockwaves through his small town, Blain was thrust into the local spotlight, fielding questions from journalists, police, and feeling pressure to perform his grief in public and on social media. In a community where men were expected to be strong and silent, Blaine felt that he had no one to turn to with his complicated emotions. In Car Crash, Blaine offers an intimate, brave account of what it’s like to survive a tragedy that others didn’t––and a moving portrait of a young person struggling to define his own masculinity. Blaine was raised to believe that being masculine meant projecting toughness, stoicism, and dominance, and this belief leads him to alcohol and disordered eating to cope with his pain. But as Blaine finally learns to open up with family, friends, and a therapist, he comes to realize the meaning of true strength, and the power of vulnerability to bring hope and healing. “Some books just have to be written. And some books just have to be read.”—Trent Dalton, author of Boy Swallows Universe

Apostle, Or, Bones that Shine Like Fire

Apostle, Or, Bones that Shine Like Fire
Author: Tom Bissell
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2016
Genre: Apostles
ISBN: 0375424660
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"Bissell finds that the story of the apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus's ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of the world's largest religion, Bissell embarks on a years-long pilgrimage to the supposed tombs of the Twelve Apostles"--Dust jacket flap.

The Face Yoga Journal

The Face Yoga Journal
Author: Danielle Collins
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1786787075
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From the world's leading face yoga expert, this beautiful journal offers daily motivation for a younger-looking face and a calmer mind. The 52-week programme will transform your face, mind and life in just 2 minutes a day, with Danielle by your side every step of the way. This is the first-ever Face Yoga journal, from the best-known Face Yoga teacher in the world. As it's undated, it can be started at any time of year and then used for 52 weeks, supporting you through a year of Face Yoga practice, and encouraging you to take daily time out for self-care along the way. With Danielle by your side, offering a new exercise each week, plus a motivational quote, a weekly wellness hack and a chance to set yourself a goal and then reflect on your progress at the week's end, you'll be motivated to continue practising and reap the benefits of fresher, more vibrant and younger-looking skin. And it takes just 2 minutes a day to fill in the journal and do the Face Yoga exercise. You can spend more if you like, but just 2 minutes a day will work - and surely we can all spare 2 minutes for ourselves. There are 52-brand new Face Yoga exercises in this journal along with full explanation of what Face Yoga is and how to do it. You don't need to own Danielle's first book to buy this journal, but if you do own it, you'll certainly want this journal too.

Blueberries

Blueberries
Author: Ellena Savage
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1925923177
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A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction.

Perfect Stranger

Perfect Stranger
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 267
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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In that perfect stranger, I found my fairytale… Olivia Cadwell, brilliant with numbers but still having trouble figuring out where she fits into the world, is on the run from her hometown, courtesy of her mother's boyfriend—who has decided that Olivia is his next target. Leo Folley, head of the multi-billion-dollar company his father started, is minding his own business and carrying on as usual… until his publicist gives him a deadline: Find a girlfriend, play nice with the press, and be a better face for the company, or the board is going to make trouble. When Leo finds Olivia sleeping in her car in the alley outside of his office, he sees the perfect answer to his dilemma: a girl who needs money and a place to stay in exchange for playing his date for the big charity auction. For Olivia, it's the perfect solution: money, a place to stay, and safety from the man she's sure is searching for her. What's not to love? They both believe they can get through the week without taking anything too seriously. They're both wrong. A job is a job, until you're the bosses pretty woman… The Millionaire's Pretty Woman Series Book 1 – Perfect Stranger Book 2 – Captive Devotion Book 3 – Sweet Temptations Search Terms: billionaire romance, romance billionaire series, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire obsession, new adult romance, romance love triangle, romance love, sweet love story, BBW, billionaire romanc, true love, happily ever after, famos actor, hot and steamy, hot romance, bad boy, Alpha Bad Boy, Alpha male romance, contemporary romance and sex, billionaire, romance, new adult, contemporary romance, love and life, cancer, fictio, big beautiful women, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, holiday, holiday romance, golf, bilionaire romance, dark romance, romantic comedy, saga, women's saga

Evolution

Evolution
Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0802146368
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The new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Chelsea Girls reads like “an arrival, a voice always becoming, unpinnable and queer” (Natalie Diaz, New York Times Book Review). The first all-new collection of poems from Eileen Myles since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets, Evolution follows the author’s critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as a volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice. In these new poems, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that radiates insight, purpose, and risk while channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones. This long-awaited new collection “lopes forward in the strutting style of the witnessing and sincere, but gorgeously nonaustere, poet in New York…The gift of Evolution is its bold depiction of the textually-rendered ‘I’-Eileen” (Kenyon Review). A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Blind Spot

Blind Spot
Author: Teju Cole
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0399591079
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In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions. One of Time’s Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of the Year • One of Smithsonian.com’s Ten Best Photography Books of the Year When it comes to Teju Cole, the unexpected is not unfamiliar: He’s an acclaimed novelist, an influential essayist, and an internationally exhibited photographer. In Blind Spot, readers follow Cole’s inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm as he continues to refine the voice, eye, and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open City. Here, journey through more than 150 of Cole’s full-color original photos, each accompanied by his lyrical and evocative prose, forming a multimedia diary of years of near-constant travel: from a park in Berlin to a mountain range in Switzerland, a church exterior in Lagos to a parking lot in Brooklyn; landscapes and interiors, beautiful or quotidian, that inspire Cole’s memories, fantasies, and introspections. Ships in Capri remind him of the work of writers from Homer to Edna O’Brien; a hotel room in Wannsee brings back a disturbing dream about a friend’s death; a home in Tivoli evokes a transformative period of semi-blindness, after which “the photography changed. . . . The looking changed.” As exquisitely wrought as the work of Anne Carson or Chris Marker, Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature. Praise for Blind Spot “Common things [are] made radiant by the quality of Cole’s looking. . . . In this new, luminous book, Cole shows himself to be really one of the best at seeing.”—The Guardian “This lyrical essay in photographs paired with texts explores the mysteries of the ordinary.”—The New York Times Books Review (Editors’ Choice) “Stunning . . . feels like the fulfillment of an intellectual project that has defined most of [Cole’s] career.”—Slate “Dazzling . . . cerebral yet intimate . . . combines personal essay, history, biography, journalism, and photography into a seamless package, capturing human dignity and grace through careful, clear-eyed reverence.”—Vice “An eclectically brilliant distillation of what photography can do, and why it remains an important art form.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The Best American Short Stories 2012

The Best American Short Stories 2012
Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547242107
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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.