A record of hundreds of dreams the way only Burroughs can dream, roaming over ideas on writing, painting, consciousness, and creativity.

Chabon, Michael.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
(NY: Harper & Row, 1988).
paperback P170.00

A contemporary bildungsroman, often compared to The Great Gatsby, On the Road, and Catcher in the Rye.

Cocteau, Jean.
The Difficulty of Being
(NY: De Capo Press, 1995).
paperback P325.00

Personal memoirs of the leader of the French avant-garde, which shows the key to his lifetime oevre and his unchainable personality. Cocteau lived from 1989-1963, and bears no relation to the Cocteau Twins.

Hanff, Helen.
84 Charing Cross Road
(NY: Avon, 1970).
paperback P150.00

The unforgettable epistles of Helen Hanff and Frank Doel, whose intimate friendship unfolded through nothing but words. A classic for booklovers.

Hugo, Victor.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(NY: Bantam Books, 1981).
paperback P110.00

Translated and abridged from the French by Louis Blair. A timely antidote to the Disney's version of this great tragic novel.

Mazza, Cris; & De Shell, Jeffrey, eds.
Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction
(Normal, Illinois; FC2, 1995).
paperback P300.00

The fourth volume in "On the Edge: New Women's Fiction," FC2's focus on experimental fiction by women. Includes new writers, Carole Maso, Jonis Agee, Stacey Levine, Carolyn Banks.

Sontag, Susan.
The Way We Live Now
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1991).
paperback P200.00

Published as a short story in the New Yorker in 1986, this illustrated edition magnifies the story of how an interlinking group of friends respond when they discover that a close friend has AIDS. A must buy. I have a copy, in fact.

Stoppard, Tom.
Dalliance and Undiscovered Country
(London: Faber & Faber, 1986).
hardcover P220.00

Explores workings of Viennese society in the 1890s, in the timeless Stoppardian verbal facility.

Toer, Pramaoedya Ananta.
Footsteps
(NY: Penguin Books, 1990).
paperback P285.00

Translated by Max Lane. Third part of the Buru Quartet, novels written during Toer's 1965-1979 imprisonment in Buru Island, which includes This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, and House of Glass.

Ayrton, Pete.
The Alphabet Garden: European Short Stories
(London: Serpent's Tail, 1994).
paperback P495.00M

Bowler, Gail Hellund.
Artists and Writer's Colonies: Retreats, Residencies, and Respites for the Creative Mind
(Hillboro, Oregon: Blue Heron Publishing, Inc., 1995).
paperback P526.00

Neruda, Pablo.
Odes to Common Things
(NY: Bulfinch Press, 1994).
hardcover P726.00

A wonderful find. Contains poetry that makes magical the most mundane objects, like french fries. A sample:

ODE TO FRENCH FRIES

What sizzles
in boiling
oil
is the world's
pleasure:
French fries
go
into the pan
like the morning swan's
feathers
and emerge
half-golden from the olive's
crackling amber.

Garlic
lends them
its earthly aroma,
its spice,
its pollen that braved the reefs.
Then,
dressed
anew
in ivory fruits, they fill our plates
with repeated abundance
and the delicious simplicity of the soil.

Watson, Steven.
The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960
(NY: Pantheon, 1995).
hardcover P668.50

Wilson, Edmund.
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
(NY: Noonday Press, 1972).
paperback P528.00