Finalist for a 2019 Sidewise Award “Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling. . . . smart, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable.” —Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner, Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts—a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback—and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture. But the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost. With Famous Men Who Never Lived, K Chess has created a compelling and inventive speculative work on what home means to those who have lost it forever.

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Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and considers why it is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in the post-1945 period as a reaction to the rapid, unsettling transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a culture of perilous distraction. Epstein demonstrates that poetry is an important, and perhaps unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even a mode of resistance, to a culture suffering from an acute crisis of attention. In this timely and engaging study, Epstein examines why a compulsion to represent the everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism and why it has so often sparked genre-bending formal experimentation. With chapters devoted to illuminating readings of a diverse group of writers--including poets associated with influential movements like the New York School, language poetry, and conceptual writing--the book considers the variety of forms contemporary poetry of everyday life has taken, and analyzes how gender, race, and political forces all profoundly inflect the experience and the representation of the quotidian. By exploring the rise of experimental realism as a poetic mode and the turn to rule-governed "everyday-life projects," Attention Equals Life offers a new way of understanding a vital strain at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It not only charts the evolution of a significant concept in cultural theory and poetry, but also reminds readers that the quest to pay attention to the everyday within today's frenetic world of and social media is an urgent and unending task.

Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal). If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments. "Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national security vault." --Washington Post "Superb, smart, and succinct." --Forbes

Does a part of you feel your life choices are not exactly your own choices and you wish to understand why that is the case and what to do about it? And do you wish you could make decisions that are purely based on wanting the best for yourself as opposed to trying to impress other people or live as per the definitions of what other people think/feel is right? If you’ve answered YES, Let This Book Help You Turn Things Around So You Stop Chasing Acceptance And Conformity With The Masses And Instead Pursue And Focus On Your Uniqueness! Are you living your life or are you living someone else’s life? The desire to be popular and fashionable is one of the most powerful drivers of human behavior. You probably think that the decisions you make on a day to day basis are your own but the truth is that every choice you make is actually predetermined by your desire to be likeable. This phenomenon ripples out into every facet of your life and has a bigger impact on your life’s outcome than you can possibly imagine. Keep reading to learn how your life today is really the outcome of external pressure rather than internal logical decision making. We all have that singular moment in our lives when everything changes forever, this is that moment for you. This book is about to change your life by showing you that contrary to your own expectations, every choice you make isn’t actually guided by conscious decision making but rather a strong desire to be popular and fit in. Unfortunately, the desire to fit in has disastrous consequences for your personal life as well as your academic and professional life. If you are ever going to achieve greatness, then you must learn how to drop the fake you and embrace the power of the real you. I have spent years working in the medical field as a nurse. This book isn’t just a combination of cold hard facts and statistics. The book is actually a story of my life, struggles and triumphs. My experiences in the medical field have provided me with a unique perspective on life that a lot of people have found to be very useful. I didn’t achieve my full potential until I learned how to stop trying to be other people and simply embrace the power of being me. You can learn to do the same thing if you keep reading. This book will teach you… How to stop being a spoilt kid and become a responsible adult What it takes to be a leader boy or leader girl How to overcome depression and anxiety Why humans crave to fit in How human behavior is impacted by deeply held subconscious beliefs Why we crave to connect with other people How to overcome anger issues Read along as we cover insightful topics like: • Working as a single mom • Overcoming childhood pain • The difference between material wealth and happiness • Self introspection • I can’t mentality • Copycat syndrome • Want to be like syndrome · And much more! When you are done reading this book, you will realize that you never really had a clue about who you were. You will be scared by the realization of how much your actions were really just attempts at social conformity but you will be glad to learn how to reach your full potential by embracing the real you.

Focusing on Second Generation New York School poetry from 1960 to the present day, this volume explores the poets who lived and wrote from or about New York, the forms of their poems, and the a relationship between the structures they inhabited and the structures they created.