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"[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." -Susan Sontag
From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, contributing writer to Vanity Fair, calls Terry Castle a "Jedi...
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A literary exploration that seeks to answer the question: Have I lived the life I intended?
Based on an essay he wrote for Poets & Writers magazine, Jesse Browner, a novelist who finds himself torn between his creative calling and a full-time job in the civil service, asks hard questions about the choices life imposes on us, and our tendency to believe in a parallel, alternative existence where we might have felt more fulfilled, more free, more true...
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One of the late twentieth century's most celebrated and influential public intellectuals, Edward W. Said was also a critic of astonishing range. This book presents his insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas-originally delivered as the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University in 1997-showcasing the power of Said's critical acumen to unsettle canonical interpretations.
In close readings of Mozart's Così fan tutte, Beethoven's Fidelio,...
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Everyone deserves to treat themselves to a beautiful meal...especially you! I've included some of the most delicious meat and fish recipes for breakfast and brunch, lunch and dinner, including recipes for soups, salads, pastas, casseroles and roasts so you can indulge yourself and all the gods and goddesses in your life. Completely indexed with resources included, you will find something for every taste in The Gigantic Meat And Fish Cookbook from...
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Since it first went to press in 1996, BlackBook has established itself as an arbiter of style, and a forum for new and dynamic writing. The Revolution Will Be Accessorized gathers many of the magazine's strongest pieces, and the result is a star-studded collection that addresses the intersection of pop culture, the arts, politics, and fashion, with provocative contributions from many of today's best writers, including:
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Augusten Burroughs on...
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An A-to-Z compendium of Russell's writing. One of the great minds of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell explored philosophy, mathematics, and a variety of other intellectual, political, historical, and social issues in his lifetime. In this indispensable and easily accessible guide, drawn from his books and essays, readers will find Russell's fundamental principles, from objectivity to ontological arguments to logical certainty, in his own words....
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The Nobel Prize—winning author of Thérèse Desqueyroux shares fascinating insights through correspondence with Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, and others.
Best known as France's great Catholic novelist, François Mauriac was also a playwright, poet, critic, journalist, and member of the Académie Française. He was an influential public intellectual who criticized the Catholic church for supporting Francisco Franco and opposed French rule in Vietnam....
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In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America‚Äs literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area, with narrative threads that stretch back not just to Scandinavia, but across the world. Edited by Frank Bures (The Geography of Madness), the writers included here have won, or been shortlisted...
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A devastatingly hilarious satire that cuts closer to the truth of than any nonfiction account: The creator and star of Comedy Central's acclaimed The President Show opens the vault and imagines Donald J. Trump's presidential archives, exposing documents from his childhood in Queens to his toddlerhood in the Oval Office.
The Presidential Archives. Every other president has made a mess of it. Barack Obama is currently spending millions of dollars...
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Pittsburgh is ever-changing — once dusted with soot from the mills, parts of the city now gleam with the polish of new technologies and little remains of what had been there before. The essays and artwork in this anthology aim for the surprising, elusive stories that capture a Pittsburgh that is in transition. Contributors run the gamut from MacArthur-award winning photographer, LaToya Ruby Frazier to 15-year-old Nico Chiodi, the book's youngest...
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A journey into nineteenth-century travel guides to the UK, Europe, and Soviet Union as researched and written by one of England's most distinguished authors. In this quirky and illuminating social history, bestselling British author Alan Sillitoe culls fascinating details from Victorian-era guidebooks and travelogues in order to recount the pleasures, dangers, traps, and delights of travel in the century leading up to World War I. For instance,...
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Crack up or cry, Kansas GenExistential will take you on a ride! Have some snacks handy-and your hand fan if you're in menopause-because you'll be reading this book all at once.Humor Form EssaysInsightful and hilarious, Amber Fraley will keep you on the edge of your chair with this collection of frequently irreverent, sometimes heartfelt, essays about growing up a GenXer in the Midwest. In the style of David Sedaris, Carnival Snackery and Nora McInerney,...
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Bro-cab-u-lary (n.): A revolutionary new lexicon for bonding with your bros
Put down your BlackBerry, you PDA-hole, and step into the testosterzone with Brocabulary. Wax fandiloquent about your favorite team or have a fargone-versation at the bar. Brocabulary leaves the vagibberish to the chicks and shows you how to:
• Define your stripping point (the precise number of Jäger shots it takes to make a woman want to get naked with you).
• Conceal...
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Omega Air employee Sabra Hunter is traveling again, this time with co-worker and Italian spitfire, Maya. A four-day getaway to Venice and Rome is all they wanted, a chance for some much needed apre summer-travel-rush dolce vita. The trip is also, they thought, a great way to escape ongoing workplace issues involving their dreaded supervisor, Richard Noggins. Visit Venice and enjoy the sights. See the canals up close; tour the Doges Prison where...
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Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Delivering belly laughs, hee-haws, and downright slackjaw amazement, this hilarious guide to the homeland of George W. and Willie Nelson is the essential how-to for surviving in the Lone Star State. From strange Texas laws and the history of Dr. Pepper to "Texas Talk" (in which a "turd floater" is a heavy downpour) and final-meal requests by death row inmates, Kinky Friedman, "the oldest living Jew in Texas...
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The physicist and author investigates the 20th century scientific revolution that changed our lives-and how it can go further-in this provocative essay.
Much of the modern world we experience day to day has been profoundly transformed by a scientific revolution that began in the early twentieth century. But what has science done for us lately? In This Changes Everything, author and scientist Colin Gillespie suggests that the revolution has barely...
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St. Louis is a fragmented place. It‚Äs physically dissected by rivers, highways, walls, and fences, but it‚Äs also a place where one‚Äs race, class, religion, and zip code may as well be cards in a rigged poker game, where the winners‚Ä prize is the ability to ignore the fact that the losers have drastically shorter life expectancies. But it can also be a city of warmth, love, and beauty‚Äïespecially in its contrasts. Edited by Ryan...
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A partir del análisis de las novelas francesas publicadas en 1909 por la Biblioteca La Nación, la autora delinea de qué manera la ficción fue modelando un ideal de mujer importado desde Europa a través de las traducciones y reproducido localmente en los tiempos del Centenario.
Estas novelas, bajo el prestigio de la cultura francesa, replican ideales que parecieran estar aún vigentes en las expectativas de los hombres que se sienten habilitados...
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Proponents of the UB are overdue for serious dialogue with the intelligentsia of our society, including the academic community. This introductory anthology builds bridges to these serious thinkers, especially those unfamiliar with “The Urantia Book”. It is suitable for those with research interest in religious studies, philosophy, theology, history, and general humanities.
This anthology provides the highest quality research essays about “The...
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