“150 years of ecology in Spain: science for a fragile earth” “The itinerary proposes several thematic areas, each of them made up of one or more self-contained modules. "The laws of the thicket" recalls our old national concern for forests. "Islands of water in a sea of land" rescues the work of pioneering researchers
“Noir” by Robert Coover “With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America's pioneering postmodernists, has taken the classic genre of the noir detective story and turned it inside-out. Here, Coover is at the top of his form of him, and Noir is a true page-turner—wry, absurd, and desolate. Excerpted from Overlook Press. See also: http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero12/cooveres.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Robert/Coover/reinventar/fabula/misma/elpepicul/19780816elpepicul_5/ Thes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coover
“The book of getting even: a novel” by Benjamin Taylor “Son of a rabbi, budding astronomer Gabriel Geismar is on his way from youth to manhood in the 1970s when he falls in love with the esteemed and beguiling Hundert family, different in every way from his own. Over the course of a decade-long drama
“Spanish metafiction in postmodernity” by Antonio Sobejano-Morán “Spanish metafiction in postmodernity aims to study some of the most representative writers of Spanish postmodern metafiction. The text consists of an introduction and 8 chapters. The introduction has a dual purpose, on the one hand it aims to summarize some of the burning issues of the
“Agape agape and other writings” by William Gaddis “William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and his ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a
“Letter to my daughter” by Maya Angelou “Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. here
“Let the great world spin” by Colum McCann “As the narrator of Colum McCann's new novel sees it, Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 triggered a quietude generally unknown to New Yorkers. “Those who saw him hushed,” McCann writes. “It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”
“Ask the Dust” by John Fante “Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until,
“Quicksand and Passing” by Nella Larsen “Quicksand, Larsen's first novel, is generally considered the better of the two. The work is a superb psychological study of a complicated and appealing woman, Helga Crane, who, like Larsen herself, is the product of a liaison between a black man and a white woman. In one sense, Quicksand
“No one belongs here more than you” by Miranda July “Filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the audio short story in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure