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    A Novel

    by Ben Lerner ...
    From the “most talented writer of his generation” (The New York Times), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store—or to erase—our memories.The narrator of Ben Lerner’s new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Leaving the Atocha Station

    by Ben Lerner ...
    From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the experience of the young American abroad while exploring the possibilities of art and authenticity in our time.Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Topeka School

    by Ben Lerner ...
    From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century, hailed by Maggie Nelson as Ben Lerner's "most discerning, ambitious, innovative, and timely novel to date." For fans of Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room, Elif Batuman's The Idiot, Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers.Adam Gordon is a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Leaving the Atocha Station

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Distant Star

    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    Series series
    “[One] of his best.” —Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker“A masterpiece.” —Los Angeles TimesThe year is 1971, or perhaps 1972, in Salvador Allende’s Chile. Arturo B. is just one of a motley crew of young bohemians attending Juan Stein’s poetry workshop at the University of Concepción when a mysterious newcomer by the name of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle arrives. Though Alberto’s taciturn manner, patrician airs, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • 10:04

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Following the international buzz for his debut, Leaving the Atocha Station, comes 10:04, Ben Lerner's electric second novel that blends artistry and wit, intelligence and tenderness. A unique collision between art and life by an extraordinary young writer. For readers of Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Lethem, Sheila Heti.Leaving the Atocha Station was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Parallel Movement of the Hands

    Five Unfinished Longer Works

    by John Ashbery ...
    A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous bookRenowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007 ... Read more

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  • Light While There is Light

    An American History

    by Keith Waldrop ...
    A moving poetic memoir about a family on the fringes of religion and society, this unforgettable story about a mother's destructive involvement with Christian fundamentalism pulls the curtain back on the darker side of American religious experience.Keith Waldrop's account of his mid-twentieth-century Midwestern upbringing opens a window on a uniquely American landscape of desolation and desire. ... Read more

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  • Ticknor

    by Sheila Heti ...
    Series series A List
    The A List edition of Ticknor, the first novel by Sheila Heti — featuring a new introduction by Ben Lerner, author of Leaving the Atocha Station.George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott. Ticknor's life has been reduced to a series of awkward meetings, failed dinner parties, and other misfortunes he ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hatred of Poetry

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its continued relevance.Poetry. Perhaps Marianne Moore said it best: "I, too, dislike it." What other art takes its marginality as a given, and is so widely bemoaned even by its practitioners? Ben Lerner writes, "Many more people agree they hate poetry than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have ... Read more

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  • A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Lights

    Poems

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry PrizeA New Yorker Essential ReadNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric LiteratureA formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School.The Ligh... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD