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...Farrar, Straus, and Giroux...
Shaughnessy’s reading followed a different course, as does her poetry, which has found its place not only at The Paris Review, but also with Jonathan Galassi at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, a publishing house with a stellar poetry list that is not known for frequently taking on young, new poets. At the reading, Shaughnessy described her own language as being made up of ‘sound-bytes,’ and I would add that her poems, in the consistency of their composition, form a scrapbook of those sound bytes, running together in their similarity, each...
Lois-Ann Yamanaka has set all four of her novels in Hawaii, yet none are likely to be promoted by the local tourist bureau. In her latest work particularly, the haunting yet hopeful Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 233 pages; $23), the author seems impervious to her state's natural splendor, focusing instead on the blighted emotional landscape of her characters. Chief among them is Sonia Kurisu, the youngest daughter of a Japanese-American family living in Hilo. After a fraught childhood, Sonia stumbles through addictions to drugs and the men who provide them and undergoes...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...seen as dangerous territory. Clinton appointee Hoyt Zia, chief counsel for the Bureau of Export Administration, faced conservative challenges to his loyalty as an American before he left the post. Says his sister Helen Zia, author of the new book Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People (Farrar Straus & Giroux): "Every Asian-American in Washington became a potential suspect...