<div>Hailed by the New York Times as coming &ldquo;closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel,&rdquo; Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler&rsquo;s Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectual For Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed west to discover &ldquo;the real America.&rdquo; She finds Carter Bayoux &ldquo;sitting on a stool in a bar in the desert, across from the railroad.&rdquo; Older, portly, experienced, and black, Carter is magnetic. To Ilka, he exemplifies the values and cultures of a changing America. In order to understand her new country and her new love, Ilka throws herself into Carter&rsquo;s dizzying world, nurses him through his bouts of depression and his alcoholism, and becomes fascinated by stories of his amorous past. But Carter&rsquo;s ghosts are ever present, and soon Ilka finds herself torn between saving him and saving her own future. With a foreword by Stanley Crouch, Her First American is the poignant story of an immigrant experience in a country of endless possibilities and of a rich and breathtaking love that is doomed from the start.</div>

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<div>With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survival On a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kindertransport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler&rsquo;s increasingly alarming oppression. Temporarily housed at the Dover Court Camp on England&rsquo;s east coast, Lore will find herself living in other people&rsquo;s houses for the next seven years: the Orthodox Levines, the Hoopers, the working-class Grimsleys, and the wealthy Miss Douglas and Mrs. Dillon. Charged with the task of asking &ldquo;the English people&rdquo; to get her parents out of Austria, Lore discovers in herself an impassioned writer. In letters to potential sponsors, she details the horrors happening back at home; in those to her parents, she notes the mannerisms and reactions of the new families around her as she valiantly tries to master their language. And the closer the world comes to a new war, the more resolute Lore becomes to survive. As powerful now as when it was first released fifty years ago, Other People&rsquo;s Houses is a poignant tale about the creation of a new life in the face of hopelessness and fear&mdash;a hallmark of the postwar immigration experience.</div>

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<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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