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Equipment for Living Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us by George Stade Equipment for Living: Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us takes us on a lively romp through the modern movement, from high literature to hardboiled detective and horror fiction. Novelist and literary critic, George Stade, challenges us with his controversial contention that "womanism" has triumphed over "manism", and his wit flies with a rip-roaring excursion into "snot, navel-fluff, and toe jam" in an examination of James Joyce's Ulysses. He ranges from Dracula's women to Sylvia Plath, modern British fiction to football and aggression. This collection has been selected from more than fifty articles, reviews and essays written by George Stade and first published in journals such as Partisan Review, Hudson Review, Harper's, and the New York Times Book Review. “... a tour de force of wit, critical insight, and blissfully first-rate prose ...” Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture “... I urge readers to read the book; they will be reminded why they love literature.” Norman Loftis, poet, novelist, essayist and filmmaker $ 18.95 US ISBN 978-88-901960-6-5 www.literaturemoderns.com www.paripublishing.com Available October 2007

“... Stade is never less than entertaining and provocative. It is a treat to have these essays at last collected in a single volume.” Michael Rosenthal, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University

Publishing

“George Stade is a book-lover’s book-lover.... This is criticism at its vigorous best.” Alison MacLeod, author of The Wave Theory of Angels and Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction

Equipment for Living Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us by George Stade Equipment for Living: Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us takes us on a lively romp through the modern movement, from high literature to hardboiled detective and horror fiction. Novelist and literary critic, George Stade, challenges us with his controversial contention that "womanism" has triumphed over "manism", and his wit flies with a rip-roaring excursion into "snot, navel-fluff, and toe jam" in an examination of James Joyce's Ulysses. He ranges from Dracula's women to Sylvia Plath, modern British fiction to football and aggression. This collection has been selected from more than fifty articles, reviews and essays written by George Stade and first published in journals such as Partisan Review, Hudson Review, Harper's, and the New York Times Book Review. “... a tour de force of wit, critical insight, and blissfully first-rate prose ...” Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture “... I urge readers to read the book; they will be reminded why they love literature.” Norman Loftis, poet, novelist, essayist and filmmaker $ 18.95 US ISBN 978-88-901960-6-5 www.literaturemoderns.com www.paripublishing.com Available October 2007

“... Stade is never less than entertaining and provocative. It is a treat to have these essays at last collected in a single volume.” Michael Rosenthal, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University

Publishing

“George Stade is a book-lover’s book-lover.... This is criticism at its vigorous best.” Alison MacLeod, author of The Wave Theory of Angels and Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction