“Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman’s colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.” —Booklist
William T. Vollmann, the National Book Award–winning author of Europe Central, offers a charming, evocative, and piercing examination of the ancient Japanese tradition of Noh theatre and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty. Kissing the Mask is the first major book on Noh by an American writer since the 1916 publication the classic study Pisan Cantos and the Noh by Ezra Pound. But Kissing the Mask is pure Vollman—illustrated with photos by the author with provocative related side-discussions on femininity, transgender, kabuki, pornography, geishas, and more.

Kissing the Mask

Vollmann, William

Humor & Entertainment

EccoPress

Recreates the arrival of the Vikings in North America, as rival Greenland women, Freydis and Gudrid, battle each other and the Skraelings and Inuit, the Amerindians they plan to supplant

The Ice-shirt (Seven Dreams)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Viking Adult

The second volume of a saga that chronicles the relations between native Americans and their colonizers begins four hundred years ago in the Great Lakes region, where Jesuit priests martyr themselves to save the disease-ridden villages of the Huron.

Fathers and Crows (Seven Dreams)

When Sir John Franklin defies the warnings of native peoples and embarks on his fourth Arctic voyage in the 1840s, his journey ends in tragedy in a novel of America's ongoing tragedy of greed, ignorance, and violence. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

The Rifles (Seven Dreams)

In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, Conjunctions, "arguably the most distinguished journal of prose and poetry in America" (Elle), gathers a virtual Who's Who of innovative contemporary literature. Conjunctions:37 will feature new work by writers as diverse as Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Chinua Achebe, Rick Moody, Richard Powers, Jorie Graham, William T. Vollmann, Paul West, Carole Maso, Ann Lauterbach and many surprise contributors. This special issue will also feature an important short story by Vladimir Nabokov, newly translated by Dimitri Nabokov for Conjunctions, which has never before appeared in English. Joyce Carol Oates offers a first look at her haunting new novel in progress, The Falls, and William H. Gass gives us a darkly hilarious tour de force with his novella, Charity. The twentieth-anniversary issue will surely be, as the Village Voice has said of Conjunctions, "A must read" for anyone interested in contemporary fiction, poetry and drama.

Conjunctions: 37, Twentieth Anniversary Issue

Achebe, Chinua

POWERS, RICHARD

Lauterbach, Ann

WEST, PAUL

Graham, Jorie

Maso, Carole

Eve, Nomi

Gass, William

AUSTER, PAUL.

Matthews, Harry

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

NABOKOV,Vladimir

DeLillo, Don.

Contemporary

Bard College

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