An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura; Juliet Winters Carpenter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Minae Mizumura's An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. This formally daring novel radically broke with Japanese literary tradition and offers a luminous meditation on how a person becomes a writer.
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary fl neur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, hi ...Show more
The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be, it's no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she's taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the po t ...Show more
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
$21.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: General Adult
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and la ...Show more
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