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What's fascinating about Dani Shapiro's story "Supernova" is "its focus on the minor catastrophe that is Shenkman, a relatively prosperous man whose minor shortcomings feel, to him alone, monumental and impossible to overlook," writes Benjamin Samuel, co-editor of Electric Literature, in his introduction to this issue of Recommended Reading. "Despite rowing every day, obsessively racing against an old rival in a computerized simulation, nobody even knows Shenkman is still competing."

Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.

การฝึกงานในญี่ปุ่นของ "สีฝุ่น" นักศึกษาวิศวะคอมฯ คนนี้ดูเหมือนจะได้รับประสบการณ์บางอย่างมากกว่าที่คิด...

Man and Superman was the first drama to be broadcast on the BBC's Third Programme on October 1st, 1946. To celebrate Radio 3's 50th anniversary, the play was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatisation. 'A comedy and a philosophy', Man and Superman is...

Настоящий шедевр наивного искусства – книга, которая перевернула мир литературы. Главному герою исполнилось двадцать пять лет, и он неожиданно потерял себя – перестал видеть смысл в происходящем, утратил опору под ногами и погрузился в вечные вопросы. Пытаясь разобраться в себе, он катается на велосипеде, играет в мяч, размышляет о природе времени и пишет бесконечные списки, и благодаря этим простым вещам преодолевает кризис и выходит из него преображённым.