On an almost monthly basis, we present to you a brand-new book that we're excited about. Really excited about: we guarantee it 100% or your money back.  Here's our seventh of 2008, a book of short stories called The Boat by Nam Le.  Nick explains:

"The Boat is a breathtaking and heartbreaking work of literary genius. Each of Nam Le's stories are a world so completely real and realized that they feel like a living, breathing being. Le's understanding of human emotions knows no boundaries of age, race, country, gender or time and is only overshadowed by the beauty and mastery of Le's writing. For those who do not read short stories as a rule, please do not let that stop you from picking up this book: each story is a novel in itself. Le's intensity of character and place is so visceral and immediate that you would never know that there is not a continuous narrative from one story to the next. This is a brilliant, beautiful and gripping book."
--Nick

Click here to buy the book or pick it up on your next visit.

Traditionally, the sweltering hot days of August call for light beach reading: cozy mysteries, cleanly plotted thrillers, fluffy chick-lit.  But since we at Green Apple know we won't see the sun again until September, we've decided our August reads will feature heavier fare, fit for snuggling under a warm blanket to escape summer's foggy chill.  This month's blurbed books include:  a lively portrait of Mexico City, a complex book on French theory, the math behind a Borges story, traffic and what it says about us, Hunter S. Thompson interviews, and Murakami on running.

View our blurbs HERE.

 

Fresh remainders just keep coming, and they're often our best deals: as-new books that cost even less than used copies.

Here are a few new arrivals: Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook, an examination of the organic food industry, early Auster and Lethem novels, Pirateology, a sweet kid's book about a bunny, a beautiful Taschen book on China, and a coloring book for fans of Rousseau.

                                    See them all HERE.

Join us for a discussion of the first title of Green Apple's reading group: Anti-Oedipus by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. 

 

Published in 1972, Anti-Oedipus offers a reconceptualization of both the approaches to as well as the vocabulary of contemporary psychoanalytic and philosophic thought. 

 

Predicated upon the rejection of the Freudian Oedipal triangle ("mommy-daddy-me"), Deleuze and Guattari introduce schizoanalysis, their new conceptual apparatus that attempts to account for affective forces beyond the psychoanalytic familial bond: the deterritorialization and reterritorialization of flows, analysis of the social production of desire beyond psychic fantasy, and the structure of capitalism itself.