Books by Jeff Parker
Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia
by Jeff Parker
Featuring some of Russia's most prestigious post-Soviet writers, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia portrays the range of aesthetics and subject matter faced by a generation that never knew Communism. Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time.
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Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Russian Literature)
by Jeff Parker, Mikhail Lossel
For half of the twentieth century, there were two superpowers in the world and a gulf of silence between them. Knowledge of Russian culture was based on propaganda and rumour, and their knowledge of the West was no better. When the Soviet Union fell, Russians began to travel to America more regularly, and what they discovered was a very different place to the one they had imagined, but, at the same time, not exactly the one that Americans think they know. This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers - young and old, funny and sombre, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time - offers readers a unique chance to see Americans in a whole new light, to question how the American dream stands up to the American reality, and to experience the wit and generosity of today's Russian writers.
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A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors
What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova have in common? At some point they all studied the art of writing deeply with someone.
The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors―the writers, teachers, nannies, and sages―who enlighten, push, encourage, and sometimes hurt, fail, and limit their protégés. There are mentors encountered in the schoolhouse and on farms, in NYC and in MFA programs; mentors who show up exactly when needed, offering comfort, a steadying hand, a commiseration, a dose of tough love. This collection is rich with anecdotes from the heartfelt to the salacious, gems of writing advice, and guidance for how to live the writing life in a world that all too often doesn't care whether you write or not.
Each contribution is intimate and distinct―yet a common theme is that mentors model a manner of being.
Selections include:
Arthur Flowers on John O'Killens
James Franco on Harmony Korine
Mary Gaitskill on an Ann Arbor bookstore owner
Noy Holland and Sam Lipsyte on Gordon Lish
Tayari Jones on Ron Carlson
Henry Rollins on Hubert Selby Jr.
Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Paul Bowles
George Saunders on Douglas Unger and Tobias Wolff
Christine Schutt on Elizabeth Hardwick
Tobias Wolff on John L'Heureux
. . . and many more
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Where Bears Roam The Streets
by Jeff Parker
“Parker’s exquisitely titled book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing.” ―Maclean’s
Jeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the country’s resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence, for perhaps the first time in history, of a Russian middle class. But Russia tends to resist any attempt to pin it down. In the midst of the social and financial upheaval of the years that followed, the answers Parker sought only raised more questions: What was Russia? How did it work? How did people live? And how could they eat kholodetz (meat jelly)?
As tensions strain once again between Russia and the West, Parker looks beyond the global politics to the heart of everyday life by giving us the story of his friendship with Igor, a barkeep and draft dodger. Igor is not the model perestroika-generation man nor some kind of Putin-era everyman; he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place. He is the metaphor for a Russia in crisis, and, as Keith Gessen wrote, “his story is the story of Russia over the last twenty years.” Where Bears Roam the Streets gives a moving account of a friendship between two people who grew up on the opposing sides of the Cold War and paints a smart, funny, revealing portrait of a country that continues to beguile.
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Angry Birds Comics: Furious Fowl
by Paul Tobin, Jeff Parker, Kari Korhonen
Collecting an all-new season of comics featuring art and stories from today's finest creators this new series is guaranteed to please readers of all ages who love the app!
Follow the adventures of Red, Chuck, Bomb, Matilda, the Bad Piggies, Terence, and Stella. Jam-packed with silly misunderstandings, bungled plans, and high-flying fun, this collection of stories will have both longtime readers and new fans laughing until they fall down harder than a wooden tower filled with green pigs.
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Black Panther Adventures
by Elliott Kalan, Marc Sumerak, Roy Thomas, Christopher Yost, Jeff Parker
It's action of the highest order as the Black Panther leaps into blockbuster adventures! An international incident explodes when the Fantastic Four get their hands on a shipment of Vibranium - the uncanny metal only found in T'Challa's homeland. Will the FF feel the Panther's wrath? Then, the Avengers take a walk on the Wakandian wild side as they are caught between T'Challa and Sabretooth! Reluctant allies Hawkeye and the Panther have trust issues, while T'Challa and the Hulk must find a way to work together to stop Hydra's Madbomb! Plus, in classic tales from Avengers history, T'Challa battles the Man-Ape and joins the team! COLLECTING: MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR 10; MARVEL ADVENTURES THE AVENGERS 22; AVENGERS (1963) 52, 62; MATERIAL FROM AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES (2010) 1; MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES 8
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Darkwing Duck: Negaduck Vol 1: The Evil Opposite!
by Jeff Parker
"I am the screeching fingernail on the chalkboard of justice. I am the sour ball in the candy jar of goodness. I am NEGADUCK!"
He's the exact opposite of Darkwing Duck in every way... evil, nefarious, dedicated to stealing lollipops from kids and not helping grandmas across the street! And now, he's ready to begin a reign of crime and terror the likes of which St. Canard has never seen -- except... dang it, all of the other villains are ripping off his ideas! What's a criminal mastermind to do when the city's thick with other criminals, stealing his shine?
Why, take his villainy on the road, of course!
Written with fiendish glee by arch-author JEFF PARKER and illustrated by the suspiciously talented CIRO CANGIALOSI.
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Marvel-Verse: Scarlet Witch
by Marvel Various, Jeff Parker
Learn more about Wanda Maximoff, who uses her mystical hexes and chaos magic as the powerful Scarlet Witch!
The Marvel-Verse bends to the will of the Scarlet Witch and her reality-altering hex powers! First, a young Wanda teams with Marvel Girl and Black Widow to hone her crimefighting skills! Then, when the dangerous Serpent Crown falls into the wrong hands, Agatha Harkness sends Wanda to help the Thing retrieve it! Plus, the Scarlet Witch allies with Doctor Strange to battle a mystical monster, and helps the Sorcerer Supreme keep the terrible tome known as the Darkhold out of Dracula's vampiric clutches! And Halloween night offers more tricks than treats for Wanda and her husband, the Vision!
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