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What do you think your job is at Left Bank Books? I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN

What’s your favorite memory? One among many: successfully negotiating the fiasco of my missing luggage at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. Auf Deutsch.

Who would play you in a movie? Bruce. Lee.

Using only one word, describe yourself. Delirious.

Stick or automatic? I can drive stick like I can swim: we might get from Point A to Point B, but no one is arriving happy.

Theme song to your life: "Shut Up I am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings" by Sunset Rubdown

Favorite smell: Snow. Or Coffee. Better: snow, then coffee instead.

Favorite pair of shoes (past or present): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle slippers, ca. 1990. With matching sleeping bag. Obviously.

Invisible Cities (Paperback)

By Italo Calvino
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156453806
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 5/1978
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Very Borgesian, very lovely. Fragment-style. Vignette-style. Marco Polo recounts to Kublai Khan the wondrous [imagined] cities encountered in his journeys. Calvino wields detail lightly. (Pen strokes, not brush strokes. Else I'd succinctly sum it: painterly.) Is good.

Stephen Crane: Complete Poems (Hardcover)

By Stephen Crane, Christopher Benfey
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9781598530933
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Published: Library of America, 3/2011
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While most folk likely know Stephen Crane for his fiction--Red Badge of Courage, anyone?--his poetry is just as much a part of the true American canon.

His style is direct, and while not overly floral or image-laden, you will find here several phrases and lines that will follow you forever.

Where Europe Begins (Paperback)

By Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky, Yumi Selden
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780811217026
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 5/2007
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Yoko Tawada exemplifies in her person and in her writing a divided sense of self. Writing fluently in both Japanese and German, she deftly expresses simultaneous and contradictory senses of belonging and alienation. She's a study in translation, a great writer for anyone who's confronted the impossibility of communication and carried on talking all the same.

Seven Nights (Paperback)

By Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger, Reid Alistair
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9780811218382
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 7/2009
Others have said it so well, I'm intimidated to even try. "Borges is our Virgil; only he knows the way." -Alastair Reid "I could live under a table reading Borges." -Roberto Bolaño

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