Meg Wolitzer

Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place- feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined

The female persuasion

Sleepwalking

Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.

a novel

Belzhar

Jonathan Lethem

Dave Eggers

William Finnegan

Neil Gaiman

Anthony Doerr

Salman Rushdie

Lauren Groff

Marlon James

Andrew Sean Greer

Ann Patchett

Brit Bennett

Yaa Gyasi

Sergio De La Pava

Aleksandar Hemon

George Saunders

Rabih Alameddine

Jesmyn Ward

Michael Cunningham

Jennifer Egan

Louise Erdrich

Victor LaValle

Morgan Parker

Jacqueline Woodson

Steven Okazaki

Geraldine Brooks

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Timothy Egan

Moses Sumney

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Hector Tobar

Li Yiyun

Elizabeth Strout

C.J. Anders

Brenda J. Childs

David Handler

Scott Turow

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Fight of the Century

Meg Wolitzer'sprevious books includeSleepwalking, This Is Your Life,andSurrender, Dorothy.She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

A Novel

The Wife

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through emails.

To Night Owl from Dogfish

Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew? On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting. Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Only Ethan and Ash, now married, have remained true to their adolescent dreams and have become shockingly successful too. As the groupâe(tm)s fortunes tilt precipitously, their friendships are put under the ultimate strain of envy and crushing disappointment. âe~The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzerâe(tm)s writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher levelâe(tm) Jeffrey Eugenides

The Interestings

In the wake of a drama teacher's decision to direct "Lysistrata" for the high school play, the women in the town begin to sexually reject their husbands and boyfriends in ways that force both men and women to reevaluate their views on relationships and sexuality.

The uncoupling

The Ten-year Nap

Thirty years after their parents wrote a sex guide for couples during the 1970s sexual revolution, four siblings explore the ways in which their parents' sexuality has affected their lives and argue over whether or not to reissue the book.

The Position

Heidi Pitlor

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. "If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn't go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome," writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction.The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you'll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant onAmerica's Funniest Home Videos,and a gay man desperate to be a father--unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell. The Best American Short Stories 2017includes T. C. BOYLE * JAI CHAKRABARTI * EMMA CLINE * DANIELLE EVANS * LAUREN GROFF * ERIC PUCHNER * JIM SHEPARD * CURTIS SITTENFELD * JESS WALTER and others

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Numa noite de verão de 1974, seis adolescentes planeiam uma amizade para toda a vida. Jules, Cathy, Jonah, Goodman, Ethan e Ash ensaiam a atitude cool que (esperam) os defina como adultos. Fumam erva, bebem vodka, partilham os seus sonhos. E, juram, serão sempre Os Interessantes. Ao longo da adolescência, o talento artístico destes seis amigos foi sempre satisfeito e encorajado. Mas o tipo de criatividade que é celebrada aos 15 anos nem sempre é suficiente para impulsionar a vida aos 30 – para não falar dos 50. Nem todos vão conseguir manter viva a chama que os distingue na juventude. Décadas mais tarde, a amizade mantém-se embora tudo o resto tenha mudado. Jules, que planeava ser atriz, resignou-se a ser terapeuta. Cathy abandonou a dança. Jonah pôs de lado a guitarra para se dedicar à engenharia mecânica. Goodman desapareceu. Apenas Ethan e Ash se mantiveram fiéis aos seus planos de adolescência. Ethan criou uma série de televisão de sucesso e Ash é uma encenadora aclamada. Não são apenas famosos e bem-sucedidos, têm também dinheiro e influência suficientes para concretizar todos os seus sonhos. Mas qual é o futuro de uma amizade tão profundamente desigual? O que acontece quando uns atingem um extraordinário patamar de sucesso e riqueza, e outros são obrigados a conformar-se com a normalidade?Meg Wolitzer nasceu em Brooklyn, Nova Iorque. Estudou Escrita Criativa no Smith College e é licenciada pela Brown University. É autora de uma vasta obra de ficção e não-ficção aclamada pela crítica, que a catapultou para um dos lugares cimeiros da literatura americana contemporânea. Dois dos seus romances foram já adaptados ao cinema, em colaborações com Nora Ephron e Diane Keaton. Vive em Nova Iorque. "Meg Wolitzer é uma escritora prodigiosa. Profunda na sua atenção ao detalhe, com uma percepção muito própria da ambiguidade do caráter humano." - The Guardian

Os Interessantes

From the New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a “devastatingly on target” (Elle) novel about a young woman's accidental death and its effect on her family and friends. For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night's drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara—"held aloft and shimmering for years"—finally lands. Mining the intricate relationship between love and mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman—her mother or her closest friends? Depicting the aftermath of Sara's shocking death with piercing humor and shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother and a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.

Surrender, Dorothy

Hilma Wolitzer

This Is Your Life

Was uns bleibt ist jetzt

Jovem, brilhante e ambiciosa, Greer Kadetsky acaba de ser aceite na prestigiada universidade de Yale com uma bolsa de estudo. Para entrar, basta preencher um formulário. Algo que os pais, na sua descontracção de hippies da velha guarda, não fazem. É assim que ela se vê relegada para uma universidade de segunda linha enquanto o namorado, Cory, filho de imigrantes portugueses, concretiza o sonho de ambos e segue para Yale. Enquanto se debate com a inesperada falta de rumo, Greer conhece a carismática Faith Frank, figura icónica do feminismo americano. Ao assistir a uma palestra de Faith, a chama que Greer temia extinta ilumina-se. Anos depois, já terminada a faculdade, Cory dedica-se à alta finança enquanto Greer luta pelos seus ideais com fervor. São percursos distintos que os obrigam a confrontarem-se com a complexidade da vida adulta. Aos poucos, ambos se afastam do futuro que sempre imaginaram para si próprios. E um dia, vão perceber como estão longe daquilo que sonharam ser.

A Persuasão Feminina

A trinta e cinco mil pes de altitude, no conforto da cabina de 1? classe do avi?o, Joan Castleman decide deixar o marido. Est?o lado a lado, rumam a Helsinquia, onde ele, escritor de renome, ira receber o premio literario de uma vida. Na semiobscuridade, Joan mergulha numa intensa reflex?o sobre a sua relac?o com Joe. O inicio tempestuoso, na universidade, onde ela era a aluna promissora e deslumbrada e ele o professor carismatico e casado. E depois, o resto, a vida boemia em Greenwich Village, o nascimento dos filhos, e a decis?o de subjugar o seu talento em prol da vida que acreditava querer. Mas Joe revelou-se mediocre enquanto pai e marido, concentrando-se unicamente no seu dom. E Joan, entretanto, perdeu qualquer sentido de identidade, vivendo apenas como "a mulher do genio". Agora, perante o apogeu da carreira literaria do marido, e-lhe impossivel refrear a memoria do momento em que, ainda estudante, leu o primeiro conto dele. Chegou o momento de se confrontar com as consequencias das opc?es que tomou t?o cedo na vida - e do segredo que ambos sempre guardaram t?o bem.

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