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  • Frivolity

    A Defense

    Series series No Limits
    Why must everything be so important—so dour and solemn, so grim and austere? How about a feather boa, some frilly lace, and a bright splash of pink? In Frivolity, Jehanne Dubrow stands up for the seemingly shallow and trifling, calling for a reconsideration of what we find worthy and what we dismiss.This book is a provocation. It offers a defense of the pursuits, objects, and people denigrated as ... Leer más

    $332 MXN

  • Taste

    A Book of Small Bites

    Series series No Limits
    Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses, which we often take for granted. Structured as a series of “small bites,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world, how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting.Through flavorful explorations of the sweet, the sour, the salty, the bitter, and umami, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste. In a ... Leer más

    $239 MXN

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  • Monsters

    What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

    'How rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read'MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life'JENNY OFFILLPablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan. But many of us still love Guernica and the Ring cycle an... ... Leer más

    $238 MXN

  • Monsters

    A Fan's Dilemma

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?"A lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of ... Leer más

    $157 MXN

  • Writing Fiction

    A Guide to Narrative Craft

    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped ... Leer más

    $226 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Blazing World

    Longlisted for the Booker Prize

    de Siri Hustvedt ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION PRIZE**'**Dazzling'Sunday Times'Truly wonderful**'**Daily MailArtist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three mal... ... Leer más

    $208 MXN

  • Notes on Camp

    de Susan Sontag ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, ... Leer más

    $23 MXN

  • Pockets

    An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

    “Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising account, Hannah Carlson turns the pocket inside out and out tumble pocket watches, coins, pistols, and a riveting centuries-long social and political history.” ―**Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesPockets "showcases the best features of cultural history: a lively ... Leer más

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  • City Boy

    My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

    de Edmund White ...
    In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a ... Leer más

    $226 MXN

  • The Art of Subtext

    Beyond Plot

    Series series Art of...
    Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the ... Leer más

    $161 MXN

  • How Reading Changed My Life

    de Anna Quindlen ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist).“Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many ... Leer más

    $166 MXN

  • Book by Book

    Notes on Reading and Life

    de Michael Dirda ...
    "As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again," the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic discusses the rewards of reading books ( Chicago Tribune, Editor's Choice).Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life ... Leer más

    $176 MXN