<div>Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary&mdash;a witch&rsquo;s blood &ldquo;began to boil up/like Coca-Cola&rdquo; and Snow White&rsquo;s bodice is &ldquo;as tight as an Ace bandage&rdquo;&mdash;Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales&rsquo; happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as &ldquo;diapers and dust,&rdquo; &ldquo;telling the same story twice,&rdquo; or &ldquo;getting a middle-aged spread,&rdquo; and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking &ldquo;knock-out drops&rdquo; behind the prince&rsquo;s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton&mdash;the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple. </div>

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<div>The only children&rsquo;s book by the author of Slaughterhouse-Five &ldquo;spins the Nativity tale in a cerebral, humanist direction&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus&mdash;as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children&rsquo;s book takes the newborn Jesus&rsquo; perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from someone newly born into it. In this book, we follow Jesus and meet the people most important to his life&mdash;presented in new and surprising ways. A powerful departure from Vonnegut&rsquo;s more adult work, Sun Moon Star gives readers a rare glimpse of the writer&rsquo;s talent in a format that&rsquo;s unique and unexpected. This book&rsquo;s well-crafted simplicity is sure to make it a favorite&mdash;with both children and adult readers who are Vonnegut fans. &ldquo;Vonnegut tells the story of the Nativity in his own original style that&rsquo;s both delightful and charming. Complete with illustrations, this is a read suitable for both children and adults alike.&rdquo;&mdash;The Bookbag, UK &ldquo;It&rsquo;s Vonnegut&rsquo;s descriptions of the sheer newness of human experience (the child&rsquo;s &lsquo;fourth dream was simply green. It had never seen/ green/ before&rsquo;) that make this an intriguing and memorable perspective on the Incarnation.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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<div>&ldquo;A rich, generous book about writing and reading and Kurt Vonnegut as writer, teacher, and friend . . . Every page brings pleasure and insight.&rdquo;&mdash;Gail Godwin, New York Times bestselling author Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he&rsquo;s given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote having to do with the writing art and craft, altogether a healing, a nourishing expedition. His former student, Suzanne McConnell, has outfitted us for the journey, and in these 37 chapters covers the waterfront of how one American writer brought himself to the pinnacle of the writing art, and we can all benefit as a result. Kurt Vonnegut was one of the few grandmasters of American literature, whose novels continue to influence new generations about the ways in which our imaginations can help us to live. Few aspects of his contribution have not been plumbed&mdash;fourteen novels, collections of his speeches, his essays, his letters, his plays&mdash;so this fresh view of him is a bonanza for writers and readers and Vonnegut fans everywhere. &ldquo;Part homage, part memoir, and a 100% guide to making art with words, Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style is a simply mesmerizing book, and I cannot recommend it highly enough!&rdquo;&mdash;Andre Dubus III, #1 New York Times bestselling author &ldquo;The blend of memory, fact, keen observation, spellbinding descriptiveness and zany characters that populated Vonnegut&rsquo;s work is on full display here.&rdquo;&mdash;James McBride, National Book Award-winning author</div>

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