*****JUNE 2006 STAFF PICKS*****

Luke

 

LUCKY JIM by KINGSLEY AMIS

$14.00 * Fiction / Paperback * Penguin ISBN: 0140186301   

“Despite my best efforts, I am stymied to find a passage which can relate the unbridled brilliance, wit, and hilarity of Lucky Jim. Read it to discover characters whose attention shifts “like a squadron of slow old battleships,” or who wake up “spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning.” Intelligent and light, it’s the perfect summer read.”

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Brie                                            

IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS by TIM O’BRIEN

$15.00 * Fiction / Paperback * Penguin ISBN: 0140250948

“Never has watering houseplants been so terrifying. Is this a horror story … or a love story? Either way, this is one of the best, most haunting novels you’ll ever read.”

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Zack Z.

BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN by DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

$14.95 * Fiction / Paperback * Little Brown ISBN: 0316925195

“One of the funniest and most creative books I have ever found, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is a soothing parallel to Infinite Jest, the intimidating one thousand and eighty eight page novel Wallace had put out three years prior to this collection of smart, uproarious, and strangly eloquent short stories. I hated David Foster Wallace … and then I read this book.”

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Henry

BUT BEAUTIFUL by GEOFF DYER

$14.00 * Music / Paperback * FSG ISBN 0865475083

“The best book on jazz.”

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Juliet

ARCADIA by TOM STOPPARD

$13.00 * Drama / Paperback * FSG ISBN: 0571169341

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Holly

PORTRAIT OF A LADY by HENRY JAMES

$11.00 * Fiction / Paperback * Penguin ISBN: 0141439637

“Isabel Archer is a character you can’t forget, but as a I reread this novel recently, I saw her more clearly than I had years ago in college. Float with her, soar with her, discover with her, again, the violence that lurks behind the veneer of social graces.”

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Matt

THE INNOCENTS ABROAD by MARK TWAIN

$7.95 * Travelogue / Paperback * Penguin ISBN: 0451525027

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Peter

ANNIE JOHN by JAMAICA KINCAID

$11.00 * Fiction / Paperback * FSG ISBN: 0374525102

“An early lyrical work of a singular artist.”

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Drew

JESUS’ SON by DENIS JOHNSON

$12.00 * Fiction / Paperback * Harper Collins ISBN: 0060975776

“An official selection of the NYT’S top twenty five of the last twenty five, this slender volume pacts a smack-infused punch. Morbidly funny and filled with paranoid surrealism, Jesus’ Son makes a great beach read.”

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Zack A.

UNDERGROUND by HARUKI MURAKAMI

$14.95 * History / Paperback * Random House ISBN: 0375725806

“From Japan’s premier contemporary novelist comes a collection of self-conducted interviews from survivors of the 1995 Tokyo gas attack, which has garnered comparisons to Akutajawa’s Rashomon. Unfolding the ever-complex subjects of terror and religious extremism, underground is a timely and powerful read.”

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David

MOTEL CHRONICLES by SAM SHEPARD

$10.95 * Drama / Paperback * City Lights ISBN: 0872861430

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Mary

I’LL KNOW IT WHEN I SEE IT by ALICE CAREY

$14.95 * Biography / Paperback * PGW ISBN: 1580051324

Seth

HOW WE LIVE by SHERWIN NULAND

$14.95 * Health / Paperback * Random House ISBN: 0679781404

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Jack

GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS by IMMANUEL KANT

$13.00 * Philosophy / Paperback * Harper Collins ISBN: 0061311596

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Rich

TWELVE by NICK MCDONELL

$12.00 * Fiction / Paperback * PGW ISBN: 0802140122

“A fast paced and sometimes horrific look into the lives of privileged Upper East Side prep school kids. Like a post-modern This Side Of Paradise.” 

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Kate

STONE BUTCH BLUES by LESLIE FEINBERG

$14.95 * Fiction Paperback * Alyson ISBN: 1555838537

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Graham

BALD SOPRANO AND OTHER PLAYS by EUGENE IONESCO

$12.00 * Drama / Paperback * PGW ISBN: 0802131018

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Steve

NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS 1931 - 2001 by CZESLAW MILOSZ

$19.95 * Poetry / Paperback * Harper Collins ISBN: 0060514485

“Have you ever cracked open a book looking, searching, thinking there must be something out there to notice so you can see what’s fresh again, make songs sing again, make art see something again like Monet in a garden in Giverney: matching color with dirt and the soup at the kitchen table meal - a selection not seen ever before? This book does it!”

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