Kristen Couse Libri

Hanging Out in Europe is the hippest, smartest, most honest travel guide yet for the college-age crowd, and will show you where the party is in every major city in Europe. Discover Madrid, the city whose nightlife never ends, and Dublin, where half the population is under 25. Learn how to surf an artificial wave in Munich, and where to find clothing-optional beaches on the Riviera. Follow the local belly dancers to the monthly techno party in a Budapest bathhouse. Get the lowdown on great little hostels and inns, the happening museums and festivals, and the best cheap eats in every corner of the continent. More important, tune in and turn on to the local attitude and vibe. Fun, irreverent, and totally real, Hanging Out in Europe is the guide for the savvy young traveler who wants to experience Europe the way the locals live it.

Heart traces the arc from heartbreak to wholeness, with powerfully insightful selections drawn from such masters as Marcel Proust, Thomas Hardy, and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as contemporary luminaries ranging from Anne Tyler to Banana Yoshimoto. Readers can shed the incredible weight that a broken heart leaves behind via a selection from Alain de Botton’s wittily perceptive On Love, and then go on to Anita Brookner’s delightful revelations about love and loss, Alice Munro’s quietly uplifting portrait of a rejected woman finding new strength on a seaside holiday, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s depiction of the unexpected liberation of a tortured young lover in Paris.