This year, our readers mourned the loss of our dear Gary Indiana and celebrated his outrageously wicked wit and style in Rent Boy, dove into relaunched instant classics with Dorothy Parker’s martini-sharp Constant Reader and Edmund White’s voluptuous Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and expanded ever further the reach of our two all-time bestsellers, Ex-Wife and Something to Do with Paying Attention.
Get all five and a tote bag for just $80.
This year, our readers mourned the loss of our dear Gary Indiana and celebrated his outrageously wicked wit and style in Rent Boy, dove into relaunched instant classics with Dorothy Parker’s martini-sharp Constant Reader and Edmund White’s voluptuous Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and expanded ever further the reach of our two all-time bestsellers, Ex-Wife and Something to Do with Paying Attention.
Get all five and a tote bag for just $80.
“Enthralling . . . Something to Do with Paying Attention has the spirit of [Wallace’s] best non-fiction . . . You open [the] text and it wakes. What is alive in it passes to the living. His attention becomes our attention.” —Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books
David Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ
“Literature with the filter off . . . Rent Boy is a multi-faceted little gem . . . the sort of funny, sick, weird little book you never forget.” —John Self, The Critic
A noir tour-de-force set in a world of hustlers by “a shark in US literature’s calm waters” (The Guardian).
“Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are.” —Fran Lebowitz
“In Parker’s hands, the humble book review becomes an instrument as expressive as a lyric poem.” —Nicholas Frankel, The Wall Street Journal
Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
“Artful vignettes from a life passed between Bohemian and cafe societies, in Italy and Spain, on a decaying American estate, on the New York piers . . . It is exquisite prose . . . A writer of great talent and high art.” —John Yohalem, The New York Times
The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times).
Ursula Parrott
Foreword by Alissa Bennett
Afterword by Marc Parrott
“Precociously aphoristic and coolly unsentimental . . . Like Fitzgerald but from a woman’s perspective . . . As if Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Oscar Wilde had collaborated to examine the war between the sexes in the post-Victorian era.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today.