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This Week's New Arrivals

Updates from Harvard Book Store

November 23, 2021

This week's new arrivals include a new collection of short stories by A. S. Byatt, an essay collection by novelist Ann Patchett, and a collection of photographs and essays by Haruki Murakami on his personal t-shirt collection. We offer in-store and curbside pickup for your online and phone orders, and we are open for shopping daily. (We can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.!) However you choose to shop, come browse this week's new arrivals and our featured Holiday Hundred titlesThank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!

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The publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux has had poetry at its heart ever since Robert Giroux first brought T. S. Eliot to the company. FSG's personality and literary profile have been defined by both the poets and the prose writers who have made it an imprint with a unique place in American letters. To celebrate FSG's 75th anniversary, The FSG Poetry Anthology is a unique collection celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and future.

With an introduction by David Mitchell, Medusa's Ankles is a luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, “a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights” (The New York Times Book Review). In The City of Mist, return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits, Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, The Anomaly by French writer Hervé Le Tellier is a dizzying, whip-smart novel that blends crime, fantasy, thriller, and sci-fi as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris–New York flight. ExtraOrdinary is an original graphic novel from New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab set between her two bestselling books Vicious and Vengeful.
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This week's new nonfiction is topped off by These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett (and we are hosting her tonight for a virtual event—tickets are still available.) “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart.

Many of writer Haruki Murakami’s fans know about his massive vinyl record collection (10,000 albums) and his obsession with running, but few have heard about another passion: his T-shirt collecting. Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love presents photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.

Tales of the Earth: Native North American Creation Mythology by David Leeming is a revealing analysis of key themes in Native American origin myths—and their stark contrast with the exceptionalist values of the United States. American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel explores how the U.S. built one of the largest illicit offshore banking systems in the world. Profusely Illustrated is a new memoir from Edward Sorel—one of our wittiest, most endearing and enduring caricaturists—in his own words and inimitable art.
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Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Skin exhibits social relationships, displays power and the effects of power, explains many things about who we are, how others perceive us, and how we exist in the world. In Skin, Sergio del Molino—one of Spain’s leading writers of fiction and nonfiction—writes of those in history and literature whose lives have been tormented by bad skin—Stalin, Pablo Escobar, Cyndi Lauper, John Updike.

Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt is an immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream in the twentieth century. In this newly uncovered memoir—written fifty years ago, yet never published—Nesbit chronicles in vivid and captivating detail the story of how his upwardly mobile Midwestern Black family lived through the tumultuous twentieth century. 

A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet by Jo Handelsman is a scientist’s manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change. The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—if we make better use of it. Jonathan Green's art celebrates the everyday life of the Gullah people and the culture of the South Carolina barrier islands; his vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes reflect the rich visual, oral, and spiritual traditions of its culture—as reflected in the 180 new paintings featured in Gullah Spirit.
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The Last Interview Series by Melville House features the last known interviews with important authors and artists of our age, alongside other collected conversations with these thinkers. New this week, we have John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Featuring interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today.
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Upcoming Ticketed Event

Lydia Davis with Parul Sehgal

Tuesday, November 30, 7:00PM ET

Celebrated essayist, translator, and short story master Lydia Davis discusses her latest essay collection, Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles. Joining in conversation is award-winning critic Parul Sehgal. Tickets required; all tickets include a hardcover copy of Essays Two. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

 

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