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Now in paperback, here are the sparkling essays of Muriel Spark, the writer of “the best sentences in English” (The New Yorker)
No one was as “fearless and original” (TLS) as Muriel Spark, who believed that “art is an act of daring.” Here she glides from the mysteries of Job’s sufferings to Dame Edith Sitwell’s cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher: “‘My dear,’ she said, ‘you must acquire a pair of lorgnettes, make an occasion to see that man again, focus the glasses on him and sit looking at him through them as if he was an insect. Just look and look.’”
Reviews
"Witty, exacting, and wholly original. Muriel Spark’s writing is sui generis, her influence unquantifiable. These essays reveal in diamond-cut fragments the things that most amused and most touched her, each facet reflecting some new, surprising aspect of the deep inner workings of her mind." — Maud Newton, Salon
"Muriel’s sparky prose is the best way to start your day. Reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso." — The Telegraph (London)
Also By: Muriel Spark 
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
E Book, 2024
A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times)
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Paperback, 2024
A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times)
Loitering with Intent
Paperback, 2024
Where does art start or reality end?
Memento Mori
Paperback, 2021
Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age
Territorial Rights
Paperback, 2018
Wheels spin within wheels in Spark’s comedy of betrayals and terrorism, set in her beloved Venice
