Martin Wágner Knihy

Kniha Negativy z popelnice 1900–1945 nabízí ponor do hloubi první poloviny 20. století, neboli výmluvné okamžiky zachráněné před zapomněním fotografem a nakladatelem Martinem Wágnerem. Zpravidla anonymní snímky většinou nebyly datovány, sestavení retrospektivy to však nebránilo. I přibližná chronologie reprodukcí dokládá někdejší ráz života. Původně soukromé památky se ve zpětném pohledu mění v nadosobní symboly osudů obyvatel střední Evropy. Předmluvu k pásmu 211 záběrů napsal Josef Moucha. Uvedení fotografií do historických souvislostí zůstává otevřeno individuální interpretaci.

Sibiř je zahalena tajemstvím stejně jako zrod jejího jména. Obrovské území, v němž žijí v extrémních podmínkách političtí vězni i vědci, kteří za své objevy získávají Nobelovy ceny. Místo, kde se setkává pohnutá historie, nedozírná krása přírody, křehkost civilizace i lidé střežící se dosahu jedniček a nul on-line světa.

Lost Europe, zatím nejrozsáhlejší publikace vydaná 400 ASA, obsahuje bezmála 150 černobílých dokumentárních fotografií tří autorů z Ukrajiny z období od počátku devadesátých let až do současnosti. Fotografie Karla Cudlína, Jana Dobrovského a Martina Wágnera doplňuje text novinářky Petry Procházkové. Knihu graficky a výtvarně zpracovala Zuzana Lednická ze Studia Najbrt. Fotografové zachycují zemi s dramatickou historií jako místo připomínající poetiku života, který nenávratně mizí. Jako připomínku samozřejmosti starých časů před globalizací. Jako dokument života ze dne na den, který sami autoři komentují: „Fotografie v této knize zachytily mizející svět. Vlastně jeho konec, který není ani tragický, ale ani se nepodobá happy endu. Je to procházka do minulosti, zachycení opravdovosti, po které se nám stýská, ale už bychom ji neuměli, ani nechtěli žít.“

Linda Wagner-Martin's study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2012 novel Home, describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career by her role within families. Morrison speaks of herself, compellingly and frequently, as daughter, sister, wife, mother, mentor, and friend. The energy from playing these roles in her life helped to lead to her thoroughly distinctive fiction. The book charts Morrison's changing vision as well. Morrison's deeper and deeper involvement in the history of African Americans within the United States leads to her study of the urban in Jazz, of the all-black Western towns in Paradise, of the upper-middle class in Love, as well as her poignant study of the returning Korean War veteran in Home. Morrison's 2008 A Mercy, set in the seventeenth century, reprises much of the power of the prize-winning Beloved and returns readers to the quintessential theme of parent-child relationships. In Morrison's fictional world, drawing from the human and spiritual forces in both Africa and the United States provides some hope of a truly satisfying existence.

This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional writing career began with the publication in 1932 of The Pastures of Heaven, stories set in the Salinas Valley and dedicated to his parents. From that book he wrote truly commanding stories such as The Red Pony. Intermixed with Steinbeck’s journalism about California’s labor difficulties, his writing skill led to his 1930 masterpieces, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. The latter novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940, led eventually to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He continued producing such wide-ranging works as The Pearl, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, and Travels with Charley up to just a few months before his death in 1968.

"A wide-ranging critical and biographical reading of Maya Angelou's life and work, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to His Day Is Done, A Nelson Mandela Tribute (2014). Now fully revised and updated and featuring two new chapters covering Angelou's final years"-- Provided by publisher

The Collegiate Hepcats reprints all the earliest Hepcats work, from Wagner's formative cartoons in the University of Houston newspaper, up to the debut of Hepcats in The Daily Texan at the University of Texas (June 1, 1987, all the way to the 1989 premiere issue of the comic book itself. Special Edition limited to 500 copies.

Spending their summer holidays at their grandparents' house by the sea, Sam and her two brothers play a series of dangerous games, pitted against each other yet united in their secrecy from the grown-ups.

Since Barbara Kingsolver published The Bean Trees in 1988, her work has been of great interest to readers?first, American readers; then British and South African readers; and finally to readers the world over. With incredible speed, Kingsolver became one of the best-known United States writers, a person who collected honors and awards as if she were a much more mature literary producer. From the beginning Kingsolver touched an elbow of keen interest in her readers: hers was the voice of world awareness, a conscientious voice that demanded attention for the narratives of the disadvantaged, the politically troubled, the humanly silenced. By paying special attention to her non-fiction (essays and books), this new study by renowned literary critic Linda Wagner-Martin highlights the way Kingsolver has become a kind of public intellectual, particularly in the 21st century. It provides fresh readings of each of her novels, stories, and poems.