false 2669 3914 0374271070 9780374271077 27 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3914.Sylvia_A_Novel 3.96 106 Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasias, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme intimacy of self-destructive violence.

Reproducing a time and place with extraordinary clarity, Leonard Michaels explores with self-wounding honesty the excruciating particulars of a youthful marriage headed for disaster.</div></div>]]> 2669 4.14 443 74 1992 50705 0374126542 9780374126544 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50705.The_Collected_Stories 4.34 98 The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they appeared in The New Yorker, Threepenny Review, and Partisan Review.

At every stage in his career, Michaels produced taut, spare tales of sex, love, and other adult intimacies: gossip, argument, friendship, guilt, rage. A fearless writer—“destructive, joyful, brilliant, purely creative,” in the words of John Hawkes—Michaels probed his characters’ motivations with brutal humor and startling frankness; his ear for the vernacular puts him in the company of Philip Roth, Grace Paley, and Bernard Malamud. Remarkable for its compression and cadences, his prose is nothing short of addictive.

The Collected Stories is a landmark.</div></div>]]> 2669 4.14 443 74 2007 50700 1562790390 9781562790394 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648573m/50700.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648573s/50700.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50700.The_Men_s_Club 3.60 40 2669 4.14 443 74 1983 50709 0374164967 9780374164966 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209083079m/50709.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209083079s/50709.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50709.Going_Places 4.53 38 2669 4.14 443 74 1982 50710 0374517134 9780374517137 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50710.I_Would_Have_Saved_Them_If_I_Could 4.55 33 2669 4.14 443 74 1975 50699 1562791206 9781562791209 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371211m/50699.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371211s/50699.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50699.A_Girl_With_a_Monkey_New_and_Selected_Stories 4.21 19 2669 4.14 443 74 2000 50702 1573228192 9781573228190 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371214m/50702.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371214s/50702.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50702.Time_out_of_Mind_The_Diaries_of_Leonard_Michaels_1961_1995 4.08 13 Time Out of Mind is more than an individual's journals. While charting Michaels's progress over three decades, we gain an understanding of what it means to be a writer. Time Out of Mind, which has been excerpted in The New Yorker, is the carefully crafted yet emotionally raw musings of a tormented, sensitive, and deeply insightful man who has difficulty reconciling himself to the world. Often hilarious, always riveting, and with surprising dramatic intensity, it describes Michaels as friend, lover, husband, and father, and captures the character of the times, beginning in the early sixties, when he was a young writer living in Greenwich Village.

Michaels has been hailed a master of observation, and through his eyes we see the ordinary world alive with new meaning.

A rare invitation into the journals of a writer."Leonard Michaels is a great magician of prose." --April Bernard, New York Newsday]]> 2669 4.14 443 74 1999 627911 96431279 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176476315m/627911.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176476315s/627911.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627911._ 4.08 12 2669 4.14 443 74 1994573 3.92 13 0 1385 6135372 0374148805 9780374148805 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6135372.The_Essays_of_Leonard_Michaels 4.50 10 NONFICTION FROM “ONE OF THE STRONGEST AND MOST ARRESTING PROSE TALENTS OF HIS GENERATION” (LARRY MCMURTRY) Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty.

His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections,

are among the most thrilling evocations of growing up in

the New York of the 1950s and ’60s—and of continuing to grow

up, in the cultural turmoil of the ’70s and ’80s, as a writer, teacher,

lover, and reader. The same honesty and excitement shine in

Michaels’s highly personal commentaries on culture and art.

Whether he’s asking what makes a story, reviewing the history of

the word “relationship,” or reflecting on sex in the movies, he is

funny, penetrating, surprising, always alive on the page.

The Essays of Leonard Michaels is the definitive collection of

his nonfiction and shows, yet again, why Michaels was singled

out for praise by fellow writers as diverse as Susan Sontag, Larry

McMurtry, William Styron, and Charles Baxter. Beyond autobiography

or criticism, it is the record of a sensibility and of a style

that is unmatched in American letters.

]]> 2669 4.14 443 74 2009 50714 0374263493 9780374263492 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648574m/50714.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648574s/50714.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50714.Shuffle 4.78 9 2669 4.14 443 74 1990 469089 1573225665 9781573225663 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175023326m/469089.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175023326s/469089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469089.A_Cat 3.75 4 2669 4.14 443 74 1995 980579 1562790404 9781562790400 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/980579.To_Feel_These_Things 5.00 2 2669 4.14 443 74 1993 198986 057114182X 9780571141821 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207024276m/198986.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207024276s/198986.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198986.State_of_the_Language_1990_Edition 4.00 2 Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today.
Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate.
The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of "standard English" and correctness. The "bad language" that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized--or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized?
Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s.
The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco.]]> 114957 3.99 615 68 2669 4.14 443 74 1981 980576 0865474036 9780865474031 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232925342m/980576.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232925342s/980576.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/980576.West_of_the_West_Imagining_California 3.00 1 West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically evident in the weather, geography, and people. This richly fascinating collection represents the experience of California both physical and metaphysical, in fiction, poetry, essays, travel writing, confessions, reportage, and social criticism. The authors are native Californians, born-again Californians, exiles, émigrés, critics, and visitors of every kind--Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, Amy Tan, Simone de Beauvoir, Carey McWilliams, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Octavio Paz, Jean Baudrillard, Ishmael Reed, Allen Ginsberg--to name just a few.]]> 2669 4.14 443 74 1990 198960 0520059069 9780520059061 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172616456m/198960.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172616456s/198960.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198960.The_State_of_the_Language 0.0 0 Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today.
Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate.
The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of "standard English" and correctness. The "bad language" that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized--or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized?
Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s.
The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco.]]> 2669 4.14 443 74 1989 1302940 0933277814 9780933277816 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1302940.Ploughshares_Spring_1985_What_s_a_Story 0.0 0 2669 4.14 443 74 1986