Porn: An Oral History
4.390 kr.How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire. Soon, unfolding before her, was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter – not a traditional history, but the raw, honest truth about what we aren’t saying.
A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.
Wrong Norma
4.390 kr.As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like the New Yorker and the Paris Review.
Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word “idea”, the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked.
That’s why I’ve called them “wrong”.
Bréf til Láru – Afmælisútgáfa með skýringum
4.690 kr.„Bréf til Láru hefur kannski haft meiri áhrif en nokkur önnur bók, sem rituð hefur verið á íslenska tungu. … Hún verkaði eins og sprenging, sem molaði niður ýmsar villukenningar og úreltar hugmyndir. Fyrir þá, sem sprenging þessi var lausn, var hún gleðiboð – skapur, en [fyrir hina], sem fundu stuðning í villukenningunum og hinum úreltu hugmyndum, var hún hræðileg bók og höfundurinn vitlaus maður.“
Þannig lýsir Þórbergur Þórðarson bók sinni, Bréfi til Láru, sem kom fyrst út árið 1924 en oft síðan. Bókin olli miklu fjaðrafoki og deilum en boðaði um leið nýja tíma í íslenskum bókmenntum. Ýmsum sveið undan hárbeittum skotum höfundar en þó er það ekki síst stórkostleg sjálfslýsing hans sem gerir Bréf til Láru að sígildri bók. Óborganlegur húmor Þórbergs nýtur sín til fulls í ádeilum hans og skopi sem hann beinir í allar áttir og ekki síst að sjálfum sér.
Þetta einstæða meistaraverk kemur nú út í nýrri útgáfu á hundrað ára afmæli bókarinnar. Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir ritar inngang og tekur saman ítarlegar skýringar á mönnum og málefnum sem Þórbergur víkur að og opnar nýjum lesendum þannig dyr inn í galskapinn.
