HEIDI JULAVITS

Alice ed Edith, inseparabili e competitive, incomplete e complementari, salite a bordo del volo 919 delle linee aeree marocchine e destinate a vedere cambiare per sempre il corso delle loro vite. Ma si tratto davvero di un dirottamento? Perche al di la delle apparenze, nel racconto di Alice c''e qualcosa di decisamente strano, come nel dirottatore cieco e carismatico, Bruno, quasi gentile nei modi e seducente. Per non parlare della palese inettitudine dei suoi collaboratori. Ma il dirottamento atipico regge e funziona solo fino a quando le due sorelle, l''una aggressiva e sensuale, l''altra impacciata e disillusa, che si amano e disprezzano nella stessa misura, decidono di forzare la mano al gruppo di presunti terroristi.

A beautifully illustrated ode to self-expression and personal style, featuring more than 225 contributors, edited by three critically acclaimed authors.Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other, so begins the inside flap summary of the new paperback book by Sheila Heti (How Should a Person Be), Heidi Julavits (founding editor of The Believer), Leanne Shapton (Swimming Studies) and 639 others.

Corre el año 1934 y la existencia de Bena Jonssen, la joven esposa de un médico y madre de un bebé, transcurre con aparente placidez, ajena a los estragos que la Gran Depresión está causando en el pais. Pero, en realidad, Bena vive atormentada por las supersticiones y los recuerdos de una juventud tragica. Cuando ella y su marido se trasladan a Pueblo -una pequeña ciudad minera de Colorado castigada por tormentas de arena y profundas diferencias entre riqueza y pobreza-, su vida empieza a desembrollarse mientras penetra en los secretos de sus nuevos conciudadanos y afronta sus propios demonios. El Palacio Mineral es una osada y brutal revelacion de las vidas desgarradas por las heridas del pasado y la negacion del presente. Heidi Julavits ha compuesto un relato oscuro y faulkneriano. La redencion en esta enriquecedora primera novela se encuentra en el rigor y bello tratamiento de las verdades dificiles (Maureen Howard).

Women in Clothes is a book unlike any you have seen before. Part collective memoir, part field study, it incorporates the view from hundreds of women of all nationalities - famous, anonymous, married, single, young and old - of our clothing, and how the garments we put on define and shape us. Featuring interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations from writers, artists, and cognoscenti, Women in Clothes is an exploration of the power of womens daily choices, bringing humour and depth to the attention we pay to clothes, and plumbing aspects of body image and self-esteem so integral to what women wear.

From the acclaimed novelist of The Folded Clock and founding editor of The Believer magazine comes a "sharp-eyed, sardonic, hilarious" novel (The New York Times Book Review) about grief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughters love. Julia Severn is a talented student at an elite institute for psychics. When Julias mentor, the legendary Madame Ackerman, grows jealous of her protegees talents, she subjects Julia to the painful humiliation of reliving her mothers suicide . . . and then launches a desperate psychic attack. But Julias gifts, though a threat to her teacher, prove an asset to others. Soon shes recruited to track down a missing person who might have a connection to her mother. As Julia sifts through ghosts and astral clues, everything she thought she knew about her mother is called into question, and she discovers that her ability to know the minds of othersincluding her owngoes far deeper than she ever imagined.

New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls witty, sly, critical, inventive and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls electric.An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.George SaundersThat night, in his bed, I spread my sons palm wide and tried to read it. If the hand was a map that led to a future person, was there any changing the destination? One summer Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls the end times of childhood. When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becomingand what qualifies me to be his guide?The next four years feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where Julavits teaches, unleashing questions of justice and accountability, as well as education and prevention. She begins to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of the world hes about to enter. And what she must learn about herself to responsibly steer him.Looking back to her childhood in Maine, where she and her family often navigated the tricky coastline in a small boat, relying on a decades-old nautical guide, Julavits takes us on an intellectual navigation of the self. Throughout, she intertwines her internal analysis with a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to raise a child in a time full of contradictions and moral complexity. Using the past and present as points of orientation, Directions to Myself examines the messy minutiae of family life alongside knottier questions of politics and gender. Through it all, Julavits discovers the beauty and the peril of telling stories as a way to locate ourselves and help others find us.Intimate, rigorous, and refreshingly unsentimental, Directions to Myself cements Julavitss reputation as one of the most shrewdly innovative nonfiction writers at work today.

Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) shed since become. Instead, The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor. Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman, wife, mother, and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, art and ambition. The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters.

Following her acclaimed debut, The Mineral Palace, Heidi Julavits presents a quirky, compelling novel about two sisters, a bizarre event, and the elusive nature of trutha New York Times Notable Book.Does Alice really hate her sister, or is that love? Was she really enrolled in grad school, or was that an elaborate hoax? Is this really a hijacking, or is it merely the effect of living backwards?Heidi Julavitsno stranger to edgy, dark topicstakes liberties with conventional notions of hijacking and hostages, weaving humor in a zingy and brainy spectrum...If you can take successive shots of wit with gulps of moral inquisition, then this fine book is for you.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is willing to share. Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance? This question haunts Marys family, her psychologist, even Mary herself. Weaving together three narratives, The Uses of Enchantment conjures a spell in which the hallucinatory power of a young womans sexuality, and her desire to wield it, has devastating consequences for all involved.