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Columbia University Press Save 30% on Fiction from Dalkey Archive Press Samuel Taylor's Last Night Joe Amato A failed professor, Samuel Taylor is haunted by the premonition that in attempting to write out of his system the circumstances surrounding his failure, he'll only find himself at the mercy of another system, language itself. Each iteration of his creative effort, whether centered around seemingly mundane activities such as driving or manual labor, or scrutinizing the current cachet of rock climbing, illustrates that while experience might preempt artistic aspiration, those who are wedded to the demands of literary art are at its beck and call. By turns comic and tragic, Samuel Taylor's Last Night asks us to consider what it means to be a writer first and last. Read reviews from the Los Angeles Review of Books and Inside Higher Ed    Order Now and Save 30%!  $15.95 $11.17 Use discount code EMAIL at check-out Paper | 140 pages | £10.95    Götz and Meyer David Albahari Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac A Jewish schoolteacher tells the story of Wilhelm Götz and Erwin Meyer in the process of researching the deaths of his relatives during World War II. These two SS officers were assigned to drive a hermetically sealed truck in which concentration-camp prisoners were slowly asphyxiated. Soon this knowledge overwhelms day-to-day life, and the teacher comes to see past and present merge in a heartbreaking moment of remembrance. Among the best and most haunting novels about the Holocaust to emerge in the final years of the twentieth century, Götz and Meyer is David Albahari's masterpiece. Read reviews from the San Francisco Gate and the Complete Review    Order Now and Save 30%!  $13.95 $9.77 Use discount code EMAIL at check-out Paper | 180 pages | £9.95    FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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