Whatever it is, I don't like it

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Jeremy Clarkson

"Jeremy Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he's like to take a little time to consider the bigger picture." "Then there are the cars. Whether it's the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, fire-breathing supercar, no one else writes about cars like Jeremy. Unmoved by official claims and uninterested in press junkets, anything on four wheels is approached without fear or favour."--Jacket.

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Matt Rasmussen

In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower / of smoldering filaments." A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, "a tinfoil lake," "vegetables / dying in the crisper."

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Bernard Demers

L'auteur avoue, en introduction, son admiration pour Carelman, Allais, Allen, Cavanna et ... Rabelais. Treize chapitres, treize questions fondamentales. Lisez le chapitre 6, "Qui l'eût cru?" sans vous essouffler et vous voudrez tout lire. Délicieusement insolent, légèrement subversif mais constamment réjouissant.

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Gustav Temple

The Gentleman is an endangered species, his natural habitats of the club, the barber's, and the smoker's paradise corner shop increasingly rare. This book presents a manifesto for the survival of a quintessentially English species: the Chap.