The mysterious new owner of a nearby coffee bar touches the lives of four teenaged friends in Brooklyn, who are grappling with various emotional issues.
Twenty-nine year old Viv's world is falling apart. She's just lost the grandmother who raised her, her boyfriend's gone, and her job soon follows. The stages of grief are hard enough to traverse when you're not worried about losing your apartment. Desperate for meaning in a world that seems to have turned on her overnight, Viv turns to the stars for answers. She begins by casually looking up her horoscope late at night, but it isn't long before she finds herself completely hooked. When she stumbles upon a particularly astute astrologer, she becomes so convinced of the power of the stars that she won't make a single move without them. When the astrologer advises Viv to break it off with the one man who's been her saving grace, Viv is reluctant to lose the last thing she's been holding on to. But the astrologer has been accurate on so many points, Viv can't help but wonder if she should trust her here, too.
A struggling freelance writer desperate to sell an article to pay her rent, Lane Silverman makes a successful pitch to Cosmopolitan on how to find true love in the workplace, and now all she has to do is to meet a successful eligible man who will find her irresistible--in the next two months. Original. 40,000 first printing.
Dumped by the neighborhood guy to whom she has devoted her life for years, Brooklyn girl Lorraine Machuchi finally gains the courage to pursue a bold new life in Manhattan, where she encounters a whole new way of life, including the Park Avenue Princess. By the author of Diary of a Working Girl. Original.
Welcome to Sundae’s, a retro diner that serves up the best dessert in all of Manhattan—and where three women find the right man to share it with.... In “What You Wish For,” Delaney Maguire’s wedding date is set. With her happily ever after guaranteed in just days, why is she suddenly doubting that Bob the banker is the one? Back from London and her smash art show “Lola Was Here,” successful photographer Lola Reynolds is thrilled to see her dizzyingly handsome ex again. But can he convince her that she’s also a sensation in matters of the heart? Kate Lieve, “The Waitress” at Sundae’s, has a crush on one of her regulars, but she can’t ignore the wedding band on his finger. Is the man with whom she’s shared her deepest secrets really off limits?
When her comments about her boss's penchant for plastic surgery accidentally go public, Anna is given the chance to write a New York City nightlife column of her own and is forced to determine the hippest things in town, but despite her hot new career and dynamic social life, she finds herself wondering what is really the most important thing in life. Original. 30,000 first printing.
MEET THE REGULARS at the One Trick Pony, Brooklyn's finest coffeehouse: Jesse the Player - gorgeous, charming, and oh-so-irresistible, he goes through girls quicker than you can say, "Check, please!" Abigail the Poet - quiet and beautiful, with a heart full of pain, she's scared that she won't recover from the loss of her mother. Randall the MusicianÑyour typical procrastinator and Ÿber-sensitive emo guitarist, he can't find the courage to tell Abigail he loves her. Kate the Know-It-All - stunning, overconfident, and a well-meaning buttinsky, she has everything figured out, or so she thinks. When their favorite hangout closes, these four friends are more adrift than ever before. A mysterious young Frenchwoman named Caroline Deneuve reopens the doors of the One Trick Pony. And their lives will never be the same.
Twenty-nine year old Viv's world is falling apart. She's just lost the grandmother who raised her, her boyfriend's gone, and her job soon follows. The stages of grief are hard enough to traverse when you're not worried about losing your apartment. Desperate for meaning in a world that seems to have turned on her overnight, Viv turns to the stars for answers. She begins by casually looking up her horoscope late at night, but it isn't long before she finds herself completely hooked. When she stumbles upon a particularly astute astrologer, she becomes so convinced of the power of the stars that she won't make a single move without them. When the astrologer advises Viv to break it off with the one man who's been her saving grace, Viv is reluctant to lose the last thing she's been holding on to. But the astrologer has been accurate on so many points, Viv can't help but wonder if she should trust her here, too.
Welcome to Sundae’s, a retro diner that serves up the best dessert in all of Manhattan—and where three women find the right man to share it with.... In “What You Wish For,” Delaney Maguire’s wedding date is set. With her happily ever after guaranteed in just days, why is she suddenly doubting that Bob the banker is the one? Back from London and her smash art show “Lola Was Here,” successful photographer Lola Reynolds is thrilled to see her dizzyingly handsome ex again. But can he convince her that she’s also a sensation in matters of the heart? Kate Lieve, “The Waitress” at Sundae’s, has a crush on one of her regulars, but she can’t ignore the wedding band on his finger. Is the man with whom she’s shared her deepest secrets really off limits?
Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition reveals the unique value of metapoems for exploring twentieth-century poetry. By placing these texts into a hitherto barely investigated literary-historical perspective, it demonstrates that modern metapoetry is steeped in the lyric tradition to a much greater extent than previously acknowledged. Since these literary continuities that cut across epochal boundaries can be traced across all major poetic movements, they challenge established accounts of the history of twentieth-century poetry that postulate a radical break with the (immediate) past. Moreover, the finding that metapoems perpetuate traditional forms and topoi distinguishes metapoetry historically and systematically from metafiction and metadrama. After highlighting the most important differences as regards to the function of metareference in poetry on the one side, and in fiction and drama on the other, the book concludes with a discussion of how to account for these generic differences theoretically. With its "extraordinarily subtle and perceptive" (Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford) interpretive readings of over one hundred metapoems by canonical anglophone authors, it offers the first representative selection of twentieth-century poems about poetry in English.
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