Longlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize
The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character.
In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents these notebooks interspersed with his own biographical research into Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling--and often wickedly humorous--meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.

Destined to be a modern classic from “an original and a canonical presence in Irish fiction” (Colm Tóibín), Small Things Like These is Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel, the tale of one man’s courage — and a remarkable portrait of love and family.
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is father to five girls, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting and inspiring story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically celebrated and iconic writers.

Lio Min's Beating Heart Baby is a tender best friends to enemies to lovers story with AAPI leads, celebrating first love, second chances, indie rock, and transitions of all kinds

Blistering, deeply emo, and shimmering with the messiness of intimacy, Beating Heart Baby is a dizzying, occasionally infuriating, gleefully sexy, and utterly heartfelt exploration of identity, culture, and finding home within your art and in yourself. --Mary H. K. Choi, author of Yolk Santi has only had his heart broken one time, and it was all his fault. When he accidentally leaked his internet best friend Memo's song, and it became an overnight hit, Memo disappeared--leaving their song's cult fame, and Santi, behind. Three years later, Santi arrives in Los Angeles with a mission: get over the ghost of Memo. Thankfully, his new school and its wildly-talented Sunshower marching band welcome him with open arms. All except for his section leader, the prickly, proud, musical prodigy Suwa. But when Santi realizes Suwa is trans, then Suwa realizes Santi takes his identity in stride, both boys begin to let their guards down. Santi learns Suwa's surliness masks a painful, still raw history of his own, and as they open up to each other, their friendship quickly takes on the red-hot blush of a mutual crush. Just as Santi is feeling settled in this new life, with a growing found family and a head-over-heels relationship with Suwa, he begins to put together the pieces of an impossible truth--that he knows both more and less of Suwa's story than he's been told. Their fragile fresh start threatens to rip apart at the seams again when Suwa is offered the chance to step into the spotlight he's owed but has always denied himself. Now, Santi and Suwa must finally reckon with their dreams, their pasts--and their futures, together or apart.

◇格特鲁德•斯坦因、约翰•凯奇、安东尼•阿尔托、贝托尔特•布莱希特……
◇黑山学院、生活剧团、开放剧团、伍斯特剧团……
◇外百老汇、发生艺术、行为艺术、极简主义、抽象表现主义……
◇对1950年代至1990年代美国先锋戏剧的第一次深入探究
◇提供了对先锋戏剧的一种定义， 探究了其起源与理论基础
美国先锋戏剧兴起于“二战”后，经历了炫目的发展后，于世纪末逐渐衰颓。尽管先锋戏剧获得批评界的大量关注，但很少有专著愿意对这一现象做一个较大范围的概述。本书作者美国哥伦比亚大学戏剧系教授阿诺德•阿伦森（Arnold Aronson），为先锋戏剧提供了一种定义，并首次对美国先锋戏剧做了深度概述，补缺了戏剧史的空白。本书译者为南京大学文学院副教授、《戏剧与影视评论》执行主编高子文，著有《文明的逆子们：美国现代戏剧的中国叙事》。
“先锋”这一概念的历史源头是法国的军事术语，将之第一次明显地用于艺术领域的是圣西门（Henri de Saint-Simon）：“是我们，艺术家们作为先锋，服务于你们……在社会之上行使积极的能量，一种真正的祭司的功能，于这伟大的新纪元，在知识分子之前强有力地行军。这就是艺术家的责任，这就是他们的使命。”
就此，阿诺德•阿伦森对“先锋戏剧”下了一种定义：第一，它必须与现状对立存在。它的目标是革命性的，在这过程中，它试图从根本上改变既有艺术形式的结构、内容和效果。第二，它的基本目的是改变意识，从而使我们感知世界的方式发生根本性的转变。
先锋戏剧创造了一种结构和经验，既不是逻辑的，也不是反逻辑的，而是“非逻辑”的。这种戏剧从根本上不是线性的、幻觉的、主题的或者心理的，自然不再有任何传统的意味。这是一种非文学的戏剧，这并不是说它缺少语言，而是无法用阅读文学作品的方式来读。先锋戏剧主要是形式的、图解的、智性导向的，建立在美学上而不是本能情感上的。它的目的在于重新建构观众观看和体验戏剧的方式，而这势必会反过来改变观众观看自己和世界的方式。
与此同时，阿伦森在结尾断言了先锋戏剧的终结：
“如果先锋的功能是去毁坏习惯模式和社会准则的话，如果先锋就是站在主流社会的实践和态度对立面的话，那么在今天的剧场中很难再找到可以被认为是先锋的东西了。所谓的先锋不再作为权威文化的对立面存在了，而是成了文化的一个子集。先锋存在的理由消失不见了———蒸发了———只留下一种形式和风格的外在骨架，被包含在繁荣的流行文化的各个方面之中。……先锋艺术成了一种文化权威。可以说，‘先锋’已经成为一种风格或类型的标志，但是又很难在其中找到一种首要的美学，‘先锋性’已经被等同于古怪、震惊或仅仅是标新立异和意想不到的东西，总体来说，大部分这类作品没有任何理论基础。”
在中文版序言中，阿伦森提出疑问：先锋的艺术、文学、音乐或表演在当代世界中仍有一席之地吗? 当它被几乎每天都在变化的技术超越时，它还能存在吗?……这篇序言是在新冠病毒大流行期间写的……这场事件之后所出现的世界，将会是一个与几个月前截然不同的世界。在这个新世界里，先锋艺术会有一席之地吗？

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.
The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America’s pulse.

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.
Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers' eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result. But short daily doses will not get us to the highest level of lasting positive change--even if we continue for years--without specific additions. More than sheer hours, we need smart practice, including crucial ingredients such as targeted feedback from a master teacher and a more spacious, less attached view of the self, all of which are missing in widespread versions of mind training. The authors also reveal the latest data from Davidson's own lab that point to a new methodology for developing a broader array of mind-training methods with larger implications for how we can derive the greatest benefits from the practice.
Exciting, compelling, and grounded in new research, this is one of those rare books that has the power to change us at the deepest level.

An essential exploration of why and how women's sexuality works--based on groundbreaking research and brain science--that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a "pink pill" for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it? Well, for reasons this book makes crystal clear, that pill will never be the answer--but as a result of the research that's gone into it, scientists in the last few years have learned more about how women's sexuality works than we ever thought possible, and Come as You Are explains it all.
The first lesson in this essential, transformative book by Dr. Emily Nagoski is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge ourselves based on others' experiences. Because women vary, and that's normal.
Second lesson: sex happens in a context. And all the complications of everyday life influence the context surrounding a woman's arousal, desire, and orgasm.
Cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines tells us that the most important factor for women in creating and sustaining a fulfilling sex life, is not what you do in bed or how you do it, but how you feel about it. Which means that stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman's sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. Once you understand these factors, and how to influence them, you can create for yourself better sex and more profound pleasure than you ever thought possible.
And Emily Nagoski can prove it.

為什麼情投意合、論及婚嫁，卻始終壓抑按捺，不敢跨越親密關係最後一道防線?為什麼圓滿成家、有兒有女，腦海卻時不時浮現槍殺妻小、然後自我了斷的念頭?
死亡藍調愛倫坡獎終身大師獎得主卜洛克於八十二歲生日自費出版的全新獨立作──
「不管其他人喜不喜歡，我這把年紀寫出這樣一本得意之作，夫復何求？」
「創作這本最新的小說，遠遠出乎我的意料之外。歷經這麼久的創作歷程，我一度以為我跟小說已經絕緣。但是這本書堅持要被寫出來。部分評論家甚至說，這是我有史以來的最佳作品。」
──摘自卜洛克給台灣讀者的〈後記〉

最完整的卜洛克，同時滿足！
三彈齊發：紙本書、電子書、有聲書
三種選擇、一次擁有

一九六八年，擔任臨時工的年輕男子羅傑穿著繡上別人名字的制服，在一個陌生的城鎮走進一間酒吧，搭訕了已經醉醺醺的女客，開著車載她到郊外的空地。
但隨後發生的並不是火辣的一夜情。
女方酒醒之後，兩人開始爭執，羅傑不但一怒之下將她掐死，還大膽姦屍。
等他恢復理智，發現自己成了噁心邪惡的變態殺人犯，出於自保的本能，只好草草藏屍，接著倉皇逃亡，賣掉車、改了姓名、有了新的社會安全號碼、新的工作，甚至以假身分結婚生子，成為親友眼中的愛家好男人。
只是，他永遠無法擺脫心中的兩大恐懼：
警察終究會找上他。
或是，他會太過懷念那一晚的快感，忍不住再度下手逞凶……

「許久不曾讀到力道排山倒海卻又發人深省的力作。《死亡藍調》大膽原創，驚世駭俗，下筆有神。一次看盡犯罪小說的諸多元素。勞倫斯．卜洛克再次展現一代宗師風範。」── 大衛．莫瑞爾 （David Morrell），《第一滴血》原創、《紐約時報》暢銷書《藝術謀殺》（Murder As a Fine Art）作者
「《死亡藍調》搔著我心癢處。這枚緩緩釋放的時光膠囊，將我鎖進過去的時代氛圍，一路讀來，五臟六腑為之翻攪。喜歡卜洛克的讀者便知，表面上他渾若無事，信手拈來，實則峰迴路轉，履險如夷，讓讀者目眩神移，驚奇不斷。死亡藍調》不同凡響，堪稱卜洛克創作生涯的顛峰之作！意在言外，別具懷抱。」── 湯姆．史鐸（Tom Straw），小說家、劇作家
「《死亡藍調》不免冒犯某些讀者，但我愛不釋手。布局奇詭，敘述語調已臻化境，舒暢與不安同時進逼而來。這本書讓我想起查爾斯．威利福德（Charles Willeford）的早期作品。如果你喜歡黑色小說，就是這本，不做他想！」── 李．葛登堡（Lee Goldberg），懸疑推理劇作家
 「如月球背面的黑暗、陰冷。行文簡練，內斂節制。《死亡藍調》就像一具屍體，讓你望而變色，卻又不捨調轉眼光。主角腦海陰險邪惡至極、毒如蛇蠍的自我認知，娓娓道來，犀利不失格調，讀來坐立難安。但我欲罷不能，無法釋手，強自正視這個自得其樂的反社會人格，驚恐之餘，不忘提醒：每個人心中都不免有人性中難以啟齒的幽暗面。大師傑作，不折不扣。」 ── 喬．蘭斯道（Joe R. Lansdale），作家、武術家

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.
A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community.
Real Life is a gut punch of a novel, a story that asks if it's ever really possible to overcome our private wounds and buried histories--and at what cost.

“写给星期五早上不听海的人：
无论被囚禁之人在哪儿，我都会带着流浪的波涛出现。”
★聂鲁达研究者马克·埃斯纳领衔编选，呈现诺贝尔文学奖诗人不同时期、不同风格的代表佳作
★中文正版首次收录《狂歌集》《黑岛纪事》《全权》《海与钟》《冬日花园》中的名篇
★精美装帧，烫金护封，送贝壳形书签
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巴勃罗·聂鲁达是二十世纪所有语种中最伟大的诗人。他书写事物都有伟大的诗篇，就好像弥达斯王，凡他触摸的东西，都会变成诗歌。——加西亚·马尔克斯
他的诗充满力量，有一种与生命息息相关的、伟大的率直。他赋予爱以崇高和尊严。——莫言
毫无疑问，聂鲁达的诗作将长久而持续地吸引未来的读者们，就好像它现在吸引住了我们一样。——马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨

★保罗·策兰的“灵魂姐妹”，1966年诺贝尔文学奖得主
★德国犹太裔女诗人奈莉·萨克斯 诗作全面译介
★以动人的感情力度，描述犹太民族世界性的悲剧
【内容简介】
奈莉·萨克斯于1966年获诺贝尔文学奖，她以动人的感情力度，描述犹太民族世界性的悲剧，显现于具有苦涩美感的抒情哀歌与富传奇色彩的戏剧作品中。她象征意味浓厚的语言，大胆融合了灵巧的现代语汇和古代《圣经》诗歌的韵味。在萨克斯的诗作中，犹太人重回以往的角色——流放的民族，遭集体屠杀与迫害的民族，离散与归乡的民族，誓约和诺言的民族。
本书收录奈莉·萨克斯生平不同阶段诗歌佳作，并选译她最为诺贝尔评委赏识的诗剧《伊莱》，同时收录诺贝尔文学奖颁奖辞、致答辞、写作年表等，以呈现她跌宕的生命轨迹和思想变化。
【名人推荐】
因为她杰出的抒情与戏剧作品，以感人的力量阐述了以色列的命运。——1966年诺贝尔文学奖得奖评语
奈莉・萨克斯的作品是现今最能将犹太人的苦难心灵以极具艺术张力的手法表现出来者，因此，她的作品可说真正符合了诺贝尔博士遗嘱中的人道目标。——瑞典学院常任秘书 安德斯·奥斯特林
在她的作品中，恐怖转变成临终祈祷式的极度悲痛，比粗暴的事实更为骇人，但也更平静、更决绝。——斯蒂芬·斯彭德

◎ 获奖记录
2016年度笔会/E. O. 威尔逊文学科学写作奖
《旧金山纪事报》《科克斯书评》等年度好书
◎ 编辑推荐
这是一本关于天气的记忆之书，也是一本关于记忆的天气之书，它用一个个人类故事样本，通过铜版照相凹版蚀刻和感光树脂工艺，以马赛克式的图文叙事，拼贴出我们与自然时而和谐、时而冲突的漫长拉锯。
在平稳的庇佑下，不断新生、发展和消失的天气可以是人类遐思的镜像，气象的更迭通过生物的感官被察觉和体验，我们的心念与情绪也常常牵动其中。当业已适应的恒常被异常打破，突发状况加之应对措施的失灵会剧烈地击打现实。不安侵蚀着安全的惯性，在复杂性和不确定性之下，人类要介入自然多深？破碎的精神怎样重新锚定坐标、整合自身呢？未雨可绸缪，危机之下也有转机。
简体中文版特别收录译者面对面采访作者劳伦·瑞德尼斯的番外，聊了聊天气，也谈了谈图像、色彩和版式所能唤起的体验与想象。
◎内容简介
人类会根据天气来实现自己的设想，天气可以不加理睬，能够助攻，也会反噬。本书的作者劳伦·瑞德尼斯，以极富创意的图文写作和铜版照相凹版蚀刻技术，采样了与天气有关的探险故事、社会新闻、历史事件、民俗传说和科技应用，混编出几千年来人类与天气之间的张力纠葛。从靠近北极的岛屿到智利的阿塔卡马沙漠；从欧洲小冰河期的猎巫到越战时扭转局势的“造雨计划”；从试图人为改变气候的地球工程到《老农历书》的天气预测公式——本书以无法归类的创造力，带我们在万花筒般的视野中，观察天气于恒常和异常之间的瞬息万变——至今，它们仍然以不确定性、可能性和复杂性，吸引和困惑着每一个人。
◎媒体推荐
一部充满美感和经过深入研究的记述……书本身就如一阵狂风暴雨一般，向读者倾泻想法与灵感。
——《自然》（Nature）
骇人之美……如果说天气是我们不经意会谈论的日常话题，那么瑞德尼斯的创作手法就是不想当然地处理这种日常。本书呈现了大量科学论说（包括多次承认全球变暖的事实），还收录了涵盖面极广的个人记事，用图像阐释了气象元素中的美丽、惊奇与混沌。
——《纽约时报》（The New York Times）
◎名人推荐
瑞德尼斯将她富有表现力的艺术创作和予人深刻印象的博闻广识双管齐下，带我们以全新视角去看待头顶上发生的一切。这是一部华美的手稿，也是一本具有启发性的好书。
——亚当·戈普尼克（Adam Gopnik）
瑞德尼斯是我们这个时代极具创造力的科学写作者，她将美丽的艺术作品、纪实报道和诗意的文体结合在一起，以纯文字无法达成的手法，重新唤醒科学的生机。
——丽贝卡·斯克路特（Rebecca Skloot）
这是一本奇特、美妙的书籍，一部诞生自一流创作头脑的作品，无法被归到任何类别，找不到任何先例。
——戴夫·埃格斯（Dave Eggers）

在地球上，照亮生命的自然光几乎都来自两个源头：太阳与生物发光。在永无阳光的海洋深处，无数奇异的生物在黑暗中创造着生命的光芒。
关于深海，我们的了解甚至不及火星。这个被错误描述为“亘古黑暗”的世界，时时刻刻都有“灯光秀”上演。甲藻、珊瑚、水母、磷虾……还有被误传为“北海巨妖”的大王乌贼，都在用光的语言编织生命的戏码。
伊迪丝·威德从小就梦想成为海洋生物学家，一次意外导致的短暂性失明经历让她对光产生了特殊的情感。在那之后的50多年来，她越发着迷于海洋深处闪现的神秘光芒，一次又一次回到深海，只为解开生物发光的谜团。
在阳光照射不到的深海，光意味着什么？在没有庇护的黑暗里，生物如何逃避天敌、吸引伴侣？那些我们闻所未闻的海洋生物，如何借着光的语言生存？
科学探索是艰难却奇幻的冒险，动人的发现和惊人的奇迹，往往就在冲破界限后闪现。

鲸，地球上最古老、最神秘的动物之一。它们有5000万年的历史，99%的时间都生活在水下，人类向往它们，却又对它们知之甚少。
在本书中，我们将跟随杰出的古生物学家尼克·彭森，来到鲸曾经和正在生活的地方，从严寒的极地水域到干燥的热带沙漠，见证寻鲸之旅的精彩瞬间：在小艇上为鲸打上标记，在鲸尸中收集标本，在岩层里奋力挖掘化石……同时，在对鲸类骨骼和化石的分辨中，我们也将探索这种神秘生物的过去、现在和未来：鲸类的祖先何以从陆地来到水中？它们如今有怎样的生存方式？在与人类共存的世界，它们的命运又将如何？在动物科普与游历故事的双线书写中，我们得以窥见鲸类的秘密。
🐋史密森尼学会&美国国立自然历史博物馆权威学者创作，国内知名海洋生物类科普传播者精心翻译，“当代达尔文”、社会生物学之父、普利策奖得主爱德华·O.威尔逊推荐。
🐳 走近地球上最古老神秘的物种之一，深入了解鲸类的过去、现在和未来；跟随作者远赴各地探访鲸类生活、寻找骨骼化石的第一视角，极具沉浸感和新鲜感。
🐋发现只在骨骼和化石中留下的线索，串连鲸类不全然为人所知的演化历程，还原鲸作为一个物种的生命本色。
🐳 跨越时间、空间、学科领域，多角度展现鲸的生活、智慧甚至文化。
🐋 无需专业背景也能读懂，游历故事与海洋动物知识相结合，饱含人文关怀的科普书写。
🐳 穿插版画风格的精美插图，科学与美感并重的阅读体验。

“他们起初浓情蜜意，随后就成了敌人，中间似乎没有任何过渡。”
20世纪20年代美国文学界的女战士
犀利幽默、讽刺直率的语言风格
在“失落的一代”、没有观点的世界里发表观点
从虐恋里萃取独立精神，深入挖掘两性关系
✄“如果你主动寻找那些会使你感到受伤、痛苦和多余的东西，你就一定会找到，而且一次比一次容易。”
✄“之前她一直悲叹、哭泣，因为她完全忘记了男人生在这世上就背负着原罪。”
✄“那一年，妻子们的地位只比圣人们稍逊一二。她们是礼仪专家、受人尊敬的女主人和美食菜单设计者。”
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【内容简介】
国内首次引进，美国女作家多萝西·帕克的22个中短篇小说，涉及两性关系、阶级矛盾等，反映20世纪20年代美国人的愤世嫉俗和多愁善感，这种相互交织的情感近乎发狂。她笔下的女性角色真实鲜活、拥有多种样貌，她们一时沉浸在大萧条时期纸醉金迷的享乐之中，生活矛盾重重，充满挑战——而这样的生活，21世纪的女性再熟悉不过了。
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【作者简介】
多萝西·帕克（Dorothy Parker，1893—1967）生于美国新泽西州，是一名诗人、编剧、评论家和讽刺作家。帕克的写作事业始于20世纪初，从1925年起为《纽约客》供稿，从此进入美国大众读者的视野。她的短篇小说《高个儿金发女郎》荣获“欧·亨利最佳短篇小说奖”。其作品曾两次提名奥斯卡最佳剧本，多部作品改编为电影、电视剧。她的诗歌及短篇小说经常犀利直率地调侃当代人性格上的弱点，涉及两性关系、阶级矛盾等多种当代话题，具有讽刺意蕴，同时不失悲悯之情。其文风简短有力、风趣夸张，仿佛严肃探讨社会问题的政客身着刺眼亮丽的潮服。
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【编辑推荐】
✷ 薄薄的社会土壤掩盖着不满、拒绝、背叛和失去，听《名利场》《纽约客》一姐犀利吐槽当代人性格上的致命弱点，关于生命、死亡、结婚、离婚、爱情、迷失、狗和威士忌。
✷ 拒绝让生活中的荒谬继续，撕开爱情神话的精美包装，呈现残酷美妙的现实世界。
✷ 呈现两性关系里男女面对情感时的真实面貌，给过度依赖和被爱情盲目的女性敲响一记警钟。
两性差异一直是热门话题。随着时代的变迁，两性间的关系也已经发生了非常惊人的变化。帕克生动的描写将会把我们重新拉回上个世纪的生活场景中，从犀利讽刺的笔触中，体味男女间的百态。这位纽约文学界的宠儿在经历了人生的高峰后，一系列批评的声音随之而来，当大萧条时期的纸醉金迷以及战争的阴云开始在欧洲上空聚集……帕克通过书写也对之有了发自内心的回响，她笔下的女性角色都真实鲜活：单相思人士极其丰富和复杂的内心独白，时髦女郎的虚荣生活日复一日，自杀未遂的女人喝下一杯威士忌继续人生……
【名人评论】
除非作家感到了深切的不公正，否则她永远无法写出这样有讽刺意味的作品——为遭受愚蠢、自命不凡、伪善之人戕害的人们打抱不平。——富兰克林·P.亚当斯
除了做她自己，帕克既不属于任何事，也不属于任何人，她独立的头脑和精神才是真正的与众不同之处。——朋友莉莉安·海尔曼的悼词

Heralding the arrival of “a huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard), Megan Nolan’s riveting debut is “a blistering anti-romance” (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us.

Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him?

In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her…
 
Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?
 
Heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability.

"Hot as viscera." —The New Republic

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail for a murder I did not commit.

When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I’m long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of 28, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one – and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love… and murder.

But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit.

Outrageously funny, compulsive and subversive, perfect for fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer.