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Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of the well-known writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Alan Pryce-Jones and Therese “Poppy” Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of a family, embodying the fault lines of the title: “not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional but not quite secure.”Graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, David Pryce-Jones served as Literary Editor of the Financial Times and the Spectator, a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review. Fault Lines – a memoir that spans Europe, America, and the Middle East and encompasses figures ranging from Somerset Maugham to Svetlana Stalin to Elie de Rothschild – has the storytelling power of Pryce-Jones’s numerous novels and non-fiction books, and is perceptive and poignant testimony to the fortunes and misfortunes of the present age.
Eat Joy
Bite-size, movingly rendered essays from some of the most beloved and celebrated writers of our time: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anthony Doerr, Colum McCann, Lev Grossman, Carmen Maria Machado, Alexander Chee, Porochista Khakpour, Claire Messud, and many, many more These essays read like conversations among friends over the kitchen table, or nostalgic memories shared over a late-night glass of wine; they are intimate, vulnerable, nuanced, and deeply relatable. It's a remarkable look into our favorite writers' lives (even the messy, dark parts) So many of us, be we foodies or avid readers (or both), have memories rooted in our senses of smell and taste; Eat Joy is comfort food for any reader With beautiful paper over board packaging and 19 full-color illustrations throughout the book, Eat Joy makes a beautiful gift for readers, foodies, and cooks alike Eat Joy ’s loving approach to comfort food of every variety taps into the growing self-care trend; this book is a window into the comforts of writers we know and love An older but perfectly apt comparative title is Roast Chicken and Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson (9781401308629), published by Hachette in 2007 Bookseller Praise for Eat Joy : "Food is intrinsically linked with our memories. This book is a wonderful collection of how food affects us, how it forms our lives and memories and gives us a sense of place and self." — Lee Virden Geurkink, Monkey and Dog Books (Fort Worth, TX) «Some of these stories are so heart-wrenching; some are funny—this book has something for everyone. Be careful, though; some will need a box of Kleenex.» — Jason Kennedy, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI) «A delightful and wide-ranging collection.» — Emily Crowe, An Unlikely Story (Plainville, MA) «Such a satisfying collection of essays about our connections to food and experiences. Just like a wonderful meal, you'll devour this collection and lean back 100 percent satiated and content.» — Nicole Cousins, White Birch Books (North Conway, NH) " Eat Joy is a thoughtful collection of stories from writers about the food and recipes that have comforted them most in their lives. Sometimes sad, sometimes hopeful, these stories remind us how much of the human experience we all share. With recipes for everything from basic white rice to more in-depth meals, this collection will feed your soul. Perfect for anyone who enjoys food writing, essays, and the ideal gift for a friend who has gone through or is going through a difficult situation. The book itself is a comfort and joy." — Beth Seufer Buss, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC) «Loved all these short stories about comfort food and the recipes these authors used to get through tough times in their lives. Unexpectedly emotional, sweet, and touching.» — Allie Gilliland, The Bookworm of Edwards (Edwards, CO) "There are moments in our lives that imprint on our souls, and often when we recollect them, our memories entangle with sensory information. The visceral quality of food as it relates to memory is unparalleled—sometimes we eat our favorite foods as comfort during grief, or a dish prepared by a friend becomes healing food from then on. Eat Joy is a lively collection of autobiographical stories in which food plays a starring role (recipes included—and they are lovely!). A diverse selection of celebrated authors tell stories of growth and loss, healing and homecoming, and the resulting collection is nothing short of magical." — Mary Wahlmeier, The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) "Humans have an intimate relationship with food. Eat Joy gives us the stories of some of our most beloved writers as they share big moments in their lives and the recipes that were a part of them. Covering big topics like growing pains and loss to healing and homecoming, these stories are delicious. Eat Joy is a perfect host/hostess gift." — Rachel Watkins, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA) “ Eat Joy is a fantastic collection of short stories and recipes. Some of the stories are funny, some are heart-wrenching, but all are personal and pay a wonderful tribute to how food links us to our memories. I loved it.” — Sarah Cassavant, Subtext Books (Saint Paul, MN) «This book combines two of my favorite things: essays and food. The essayists here haven't written cookbooks but are writing about how food has sustained them in challenging, often heartbreaking times. Readers will be eager to make the recipes that inspire them and will relish the personal stories told by an eclectic mix of gifted writers.» — Cindy Pauldine, The River's End Bookstore (Oswego, NY) «LOVE this cookbook. I tend to read them like novels, and this is perfect for that —the stories are unique and engaging, the recipes range from a boxed brownie mix to more in-depth foods, and it's a lovely book overall. I enjoyed it so much that I added it to the Powell's What I'm Giving table at the airport for the holiday season.» — Elizabeth Cummings, Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
The Ungrateful Refugee
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” — The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the ‘feared swarms’ . . . Her family’s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart-rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the stories in with her own . . . This is a memoir laced with stimulus and plenty of heart at a time when the latter has grown elusive.” – Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel–turned–refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement. In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home. A closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum, and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials. Nayeri confronts notions like “the swarm,” and, on the other hand, “good” immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis. “A writer who confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees
All You Can Ever Know
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Long-listed for PEN Open Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , NPR, Time , The Boston Globe , Real Simple , Buzzfeed , Jezebel, Bustle , Library Journal , Chicago Public Library, and more "This book moved me to my very core. . . . [ All You Can Ever Know ] should be required reading for anyone who has ever had, wanted, or found a family―which is to say, everyone.” ―Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
Deep Learning Approaches to Text Production
Text production has many applications. It is used, for instance, to generate dialogue turns from dialogue moves, verbalise the content of knowledge bases, or generate English sentences from rich linguistic representations, such as dependency trees or abstract meaning representations. Text production is also at work in text-to-text transformations such as sentence compression, sentence fusion, paraphrasing, sentence (or text) simplification, and text summarisation. This book offers an overview of the fundamentals of neural models for text production. In particular, we elaborate on three main aspects of neural approaches to text production: how sequential decoders learn to generate adequate text, how encoders learn to produce better input representations, and how neural generators account for task-specific objectives. Indeed, each text-production task raises a slightly different challenge (e.g, how to take the dialogue context into account when producing a dialogue turn, how to detect and merge relevant information when summarising a text, or how to produce a well-formed text that correctly captures the information contained in some input data in the case of data-to-text generation). We outline the constraints specific to some of these tasks and examine how existing neural models account for them. More generally, this book considers text-to-text, meaning-to-text, and data-to-text transformations. It aims to provide the audience with a basic knowledge of neural approaches to text production and a roadmap to get them started with the related work. The book is mainly targeted at researchers, graduate students, and industrials interested in text production from different forms of inputs.