Not a Big Deal asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or rebutted with alternative facts. When readers already recognize “defamiliarizing texts” as a category, how might texts still work toward the goals of defamiliarization? When readers refuse to grapple with texts that might shock them or disrupt their extant views about politics, race, or even narrative itself, how can texts elicit real engagement?T...

Presents the most wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the influence of modernist art and literature on Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the valences of Lacanian psychoanalysis for interpretations of modernism.A notorious presence in French intellectual circles throughout the 20th century, Lacan was personal friends with modernists such as André Breton and Salvador Dalí, and in 1923 was present at the legendary reading of Ulysses at the Shakespeare and Compa...

The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises.From Lacan to Dalí, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Žižek, the Marquis de Sade's influence and impact on modernism and modern thinking is hard to measure. Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism pr...

Where the meals are unforgettable—and so are the secrets.After losing her tech job and her live-in boyfriend in the same week, Nina Parrish leaves San Francisco for Milwaukee, determined to prove she can build a new life in the city’s booming restaurant scene. Her latest challenge is helping launch Forge, an ambitious pop-up in Walker’s Point where one flawless night could secure the future of a permanent restaurant.Then th...

Get the next three novels in this hardboiled coroner series by bestselling mystery author Paul Austin Ardoin!"Be warned: to read one Fenway mystery is to want to read them all."—Mark Stay, host of Mark Stay's Creative Differences podcastBlood is thicker than oil—until murder is involved!This collection includes the Books 7–9 of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries:The Accused Coroner: On the ru...

A body in a locked storage unit. A coroner caught in the crossfire. And secrets that refuse to stay buried.Fenway Stevenson just wanted one quiet day off to help her boyfriend pack. But when she opens a storage unit in a gritty industrial part of town, she finds something far more sinister than spare furniture--a dead body wrapped in an expensive Persian rug.The victim? The former owner of the storage facility who had a tangled web of personal and professio...

The local university’s Shakespeare troupe already had plenty of drama. Then their manager was murdered.Fresh off her election win, Fenway Stevenson is ready to focus on her job as county coroner. But just hours after claiming victory, she's called to Nidever University, where the manager of a Shakespeare production has been found dead in a stairwell. The scene looks accidental—until Fenway spots signs of a struggle.As the investigation unfolds, it's clear J...

Enjoy the second set of three novels in this hardboiled coroner series by bestselling mystery author Paul Austin Ardoin!"If you love page-turning, unputdownable mysteries, then Ardoin is the real deal."—Mark Stay, host of The Bestseller Experiment podcastBlood is thicker than oil—until murder is involved!The collection includes the Books 4-6 of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries:The Upstaged Coroner

A luxury hotel. A high-profile murder. And the prime suspect hits too close to home.When one of Estancia's most prominent businessmen is found dead in the city's most exclusive hotel, Coroner Fenway Stevenson is thrust into one of her most sensitive investigations yet. The suspect? The ex-wife of Fenway's boyfriend.The pressure starts at the top. The new mayor demands a swift arrest, but Fenway isn't convinced. The case is riddled with contradictions, the t...

A beloved mayor. A seedy motel room. And a murder that shakes the town to its core.Coroner Fenway Stevenson thought she was beginning to find her footing in Estancia. The coastal California town still sees her as an outsider—especially with her powerful father pulling strings behind the scenes—but she's starting to earn the trust of her team. Then the mayor is found dead in a run-down motel room, and everything changes.The crime scene is strange. The prime ...

A dead deputy. A reopened murder case. And a coroner caught in the crossfire.When a young sheriff’s deputy is killed in a late-night hit-and-run, Coroner Fenway Stevenson soon discovers it was no accident. The deputy had only been on the job for a few days—but had he started unraveling secrets within his department?Then a second case is thrown back on Fenway’s desk: a murder that was supposed to be solved two weeks ago. But with new evidence, Fenway starts ...

A dead defendant.A court in lockdown.And a murderer in the room.Fenway Stevenson came to her father's arraignment to support him. She didn't expect another murder—this time, right before her eyes.When two gunshots shatter the tense courtroom, panic erupts—and the doors lock automatically, trapping Fenway inside with twelve others.One of them is the killer.With no backup, limited tools, and ti...