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ANDY GOLDSWORTHY PROJECT
Written by Fisk, Tina
In January 2003 British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy was invited to create a work of art for the National Gallery of Art. The project began with a series of ephemeral works on Government Island in Stafford County, Virginia. From this phase a series of photographic suites and a diary remain.
IZNIK: THE ARTISTRY OF OTTOMAN CERAMICS
Written by Denny, Walter B
In this beautifully illustrated book, Walter Denny presents a vision of one of the best-known and most internationally renowned Islamic art forms: Iznik ceramics.
NOVA EXPRESS: THE RESTORED TEXT
Written by Burroughs, William S
The most ferociously political and prophetic book of Burroughs's cut-up trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space the better to see our burning planet and the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness.
ADDING MACHINE
Written by Burroughs, William S
Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining.--Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as possibly the only American writer of genius, William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes.
TOUGH, TOUGH TOYS FOR TOUGH, TOUGH BOYS
Written by Self, Will
The New York Times Book Review has called Will Self a defiant satirist with a peculiar mastery of the vocabulary of modern neurosis, and Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a dazzling foray into his funhouse world. Status-conscious New Yorkers navigate the perils of dating along with their very literal inner children.
PHILIP ROTH: NOVELS 2001-2007 (LOA #236): THE DYING ANIMAL / THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA / EXIT GHOST
Written by Roth, Philip
The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. The Dying Animal (2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977).
BLACK HAWK DOWN: A STORY OF MODERN WAR
Written by Bowden, Mark
Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War.
BUTT
Written by Self, Will
When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his vacation apart-ment, it lands on elderly Reggie Lincoln, lounging on the balcony below.
COMMON SENSE, THE CRISIS, & OTHER WRITINGS FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A LIBRARY OF AMERICA PAPERBACK CLASSIC (REVISED)
Written by Paine, Thomas
An authoritative collection of Thomas Paine's essential writings on American politics and governance--including the landmark Revolutionary War pamphlet, Common Sense After a life of obscurity and failure in England, Thomas Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37.
LOVE MACHINE
Written by Susann, Jacqueline
In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other baby and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it the love machine.