As an aid to recovering from a nervous breakdown, the narrator of The Journalist begins to keep daily records of almost everything that goes on in his life, from how much he has spent on books and movies to what he eats. As the diary progresses, the narrator's entries become more and more detailed [...]

For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal's dictum for writers of "twenty lines a day, genius or not." What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer's manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penet[...]

In the early 1970s, Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent--and so he decided to act the part. Part spellbinding thriller, part gag, this memoir documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during the coup in Chile, Watergate, and the close of the Vietnam W[...]

Tämän uniikin proosarunoteoksen aiheena on itsetyydytys, viimeinen universaali tabu. Teos sisältää 61 lyhyttä tarinaa, joissa esitellään mielikuvituksellinen kirjo yksityisiä iloja. Nämä tuokiokuvat ovat leikkisiä, yllättäviä, aitoja, intiimejä ja erittäin inhimillisiä. "Nämä pro[...]