{"title":"Camille Bordas","description":"Camille Bordas is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels in English, The Material and How to Behave in a Crowd. Her earlier two, Partie Commune and Les Treize Desserts,  were written in her native French. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The Paris Review. She has been named a Guggenheim Fellow. Born in France, raised in Mexico City and Paris, she currently lives in Chicago.","products":[{"product_id":"one-sun-only-stories-hardcover","title":"One Sun Only: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from the \"invaluable\" (George Saunders) author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Behave in a Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Material\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These stories don't close so much as continue inside you. They tilt the world and don't set it back, leaving you to live with the shift.\"--Morgan Talty, author of \u003ci\u003eFire Exit \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNight of the Living Rez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA young woman takes stock after the burglary of her apartment. A teenager becomes obsessed with the obituaries in a weekly magazine. Grandchildren mourn the grandparents who loved them and the grandparents who didn't. Painters and almost-painters try to distinguish Good Art from Bad Art. People grapple with life-altering illness, unrequited love, and promises they have every intention of keeping. Some win the lottery. Others don't. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these sinewy, thoughtful stories, celebrated \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003econtributor Camille Bordas delves into the mysteries of life, death, and all that happens in between. At once darkly funny and poignantly self-aware, Bordas's writing offers a window into our shared, flawed humanity without insisting on a perfect understanding of our experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her first collection, which gathers previously unpublished stories alongside work originally featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Bordas cements her reputation as a master of the form.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102191620319,"sku":"9780593729878","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/08iqi5lIGC9780593729878.webp?v=1781079115"},{"product_id":"the-material-paperback","title":"The Material - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in a novel that \"[brims] with insecure characters, clever repartee, dark jokes and funny riffs\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Insightful, compassionate, biting and honest.\"\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliance is on display here.\"--Percival Everett, author of \u003ci\u003eJames \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eSLATE\u003c\/i\u003e'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Longlisted for the New American Voices Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan comedy be taught? Someone, at some point, seemed to think so. The Chicago Stand-Up MFA program has enrolled young comedians for nearly a decade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIts teachers and students all know how bits work--in theory, at least. They know that there's a line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, that the worst is the best, the truth is the worst, and any moment of your life that isn't a punch line will either get you to a punch line or force you to be one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey're all afraid to be one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArtie may be too handsome for standup, Olivia too reluctant to examine her own life, and Phil too afraid to cause harm. Kruger may be too vanilla to command his students' respect, Ashbee too detached. And then we have Dorothy--the only woman on the program's faculty--who though preparing to launch a comeback tour can't tell if she's too abiding, too ambitious, or too ambivalent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether a visiting professor--the high-profile, controversy-steeped comedian Manny Reinhardt--will do more to help or harm their cause remains to be seen. But he's on his way. He'll be arriving sooner than anyone thinks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRiffing keenly across a diverse array of precision-cut perspectives, \u003ci\u003eThe Material\u003c\/i\u003e examines life through the eyes of a reluctantly assembled ensemble, a band of outsiders bound together by the need to laugh and the longing to make others laugh even harder.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102206103775,"sku":"9780593729861","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZHJT_s3AKS9780593729861.webp?v=1781079140"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/camille-bordas.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}