{"product_id":"9781938160325","title":"The Tao of Humiliation","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest New Fiction of May 2014, \u003ci\u003eTypographical Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, \u003cb\u003eLee Upton\u003c\/b\u003e is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048463417584,"sku":"9781938160325","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938160325_p0.jpg?v=1763663747","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938160325","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}