<div>From Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of The Corrections and Crossroads, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind's major modern play, Spring Awakening. Featuring an introduction by Franzen. First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play's subject matter—teenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexuality—is as explosive and important today as it was a century ago. Spring Awakening follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, Spring Awakening offers no easy answers or redemption. Today, more than a hundred years after the play's first performance, a new musical version of this essential modern masterpiece is being hailed as the "best new musical . . . in a generation" (John Heilpern, The New York Observer). Franzen's rendition of the text—for so long poorly served in English—is unique in capturing the bizarre and inimitable comic spirit that animates almost every line of this unrelentingly tragic play. There couldn't be a better time for this thrilling, definitive new translation.</div>

Spring Awakening

<div>The National Book Award&ndash;winning author compiles a &ldquo;thought-provoking volume&rdquo; of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly).As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 &ldquo;was whether an author had taken a risk.&rdquo; The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one&rsquo;s family. What&rsquo;s gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed&mdash;from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling&rsquo;s autism and relationships between students and college professors.The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.</div>

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<div>Nonfiction from Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Jonathan Franzen, and more: &ldquo;There is not a dud in the bunch. [An] exhilarating collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) Whether a personal reflection on a wife&rsquo;s decline from Alzheimer&rsquo;s, a critique of the overdiagnosis of mood disorders, a lighthearted look at menopause, a friend&rsquo;s commentary on David Foster Wallace&rsquo;s heartbreaking suicide, or a memoir of teaching underprivileged children, this collection highlights the best essays of the year with contributions from: Benjamin Anastas &bull; Marcia Angell &bull; Miah Arnold &bull; Geoffrey Bent &bull; Robert Boyers &bull; Dudley Clendinen &bull; Paul Collins &bull; Mark Doty &bull; Mark Edmundson &bull; Joseph Epstein &bull; Jonathan Franzen &bull; Malcolm Gladwell &bull; Peter Hessler &bull; Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough &bull; Garret Keizer &bull; David J. Lawless &bull; Alan Lightman &bull; Sandra Tsing Loh &bull; Ken Murray &bull; Francine Prose &bull; Richard Sennett &bull; Lauren Slater &bull; Jose Antonio Vargas &bull; Wesley Yang &ldquo;A trove of fine writing on big issues.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Best American Essays 2012

<div>Thirty years of interviews that offer &ldquo;a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world&rsquo;s best practitioners of poetry and prose&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews, showcasing writers, performers, actors, musicians, painters, and architects. The founders, a group of New York City&ndash;based artists, wanted a public space for art-makers to talk to each other about their work without the interference of critics or journalists. Thirty years later comes this anthology: an addictively insightful collection of thirty-five interviews with some of the world&rsquo;s most thought-provoking, funny, profound, compelling authors. It includes literary luminaries such as Mary Gaitskill, Junot D&iacute;az, Sharon Olds, Amy Hempel, Martin Amis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sapphire, Edwidge Danticat, and Jennifer Egan, among many others, as well as an introduction by Francine Prose. These authors speak frankly about the joys and the pain that inform their work, the influence of family, ambition, criticism, and the sinking, thrilling knowledge of their own mortality. This is Bomb Magazine&rsquo;s gift to readers: a glimpse into the minds that created the books which informed you, challenged you, yanked on your heartstrings and touched your soul. &ldquo;Bomb: The Author Interviews brings together a selection of conversations in a handsome anthology. The book, which offers 35 of the magazine&rsquo;s interviews, is both a primer on authorial strategies and a record of the evolution of an iconic literary institution.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;BOMB&rsquo;s author interview series, which has been going for years, is one of the most inspiring dialogues between writers available.&rdquo; &mdash;Bustle &ldquo;These are not your run of the mill author interviews featuring a journalist throwing canned questions at a writer, these are conversations between writers and delve into the essence of creativity . . . Essential reading for any admirer of contemporary literature.&rdquo; &mdash;Seattle Post-Intelligencer </div>

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