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George Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literature, philosophy, religion, and politics. He is also, like millions of others, a lifelong sufferer from clinical depression. In How To Be Depressed , Scialabba presents an edited selection of his mental health records spanning decades of treatment, framed by an introduction and an interview with renowned podcaster Christopher Lydon. The book also includes a wry and ruminative collection...
| Автор | George Scialabba |
A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column «Notes of a Dirty Old Man» appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from...
| Автор | Charles Bukowski |
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Mark Twain endures. Readers sense his humanity, enjoy his humor, and appreciate his insights into human nature, even into such painful experiences as embarrassment and humiliation. No matter how remarkable the life of Samuel Clemens was, what matters most is the relationship of Mark Twain the writer and his writings. That is the subject of this book."—from the Preface In Mark Twain, A Literary Life , Everett...
| Автор | Everett Emerson |
The global economy threatens the uniqueness of places, people, and experiences. In Here and There, Bill Conlogue tests the assumption that literature and local places matter less and less in a world that economists describe as “flat,” politicians believe has “globalized,” and social scientists imagine as a “global village.” Each chapter begins at home, journeys elsewhere, and returns to the author’s native and chosen region,...
| Автор | Bill Conlogue |
• Includes a foreword by Gabriel Garcia Marquez «Che Guevara in Africa.»•Fills in the missing chapter in the extraordinary life of Che Guevara and completes the publication of the series of his diaries that reveal his intellect, insightfulness and literary gift as well as his contribution to revolutionary praxis.The COMPLETE, thoroughly revised and expanded edition of one of Che’s most fascinating and devastatingly honest Congo Diary.Che’s original manuscript has been reviewed by his widow...
| Автор | Ernesto Che Guevara |
Jim Simons to człowiek, który w 2018 roku uplasował się na 52. miejscu na liście najbogatszych ludzi świata. Jak tam dotarł? Dzięki matematyce! Żaden inny inwestor – ani Warren Buffett, ani George Soros, Peter Lynch, Steve Cohen czy Ray Dalio – nie jest w stanie nawet zbliżyć się do tego, czego dokonał założyciel Renaissance Technologies, Jim Simons. Od roku 1988 fundusz Medallion spod znaku Renaissance przynosi roczne dochody na poziomie 66 procent. Firma odnotowała zyski z transakcji...
| Автор | Gregory Zuckerman |
Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary drama—Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican minister from Elizabeth Town who was a leading loyalist spokesman in America. Both men were towering intellects who were shaped by Puritan culture and the Enlightenment, and both became acclaimed writers and leading...
| Автор | S. Scott Rohrer |
Although Edgar Allan Poe is most often identified with stories of horror and fear, there is an unrecognized and even forgotten side to the writer. He was a self-declared lover of beauty who “from childhood’s hour . . . [had] not seen / As others saw.” Poe and the Visual Arts is the first comprehensive study of how Poe’s work relates to the visual culture of his time. It reveals his “deep worship of all beauty,” which resounded in his...
| Автор | Barbara Cantalupo |
Nichtsahnend fliegt Betty Mahmoody zusammen mit ihrer kleinen Tochter und ihrem persischen Ehemann für einen zweiwöchigen Aufenthalt in den Iran. Bereits nach wenigen Tagen muss sie feststellen, dass ihr Mann sich immer mehr verändert. Er schlägt sie und ihre Tochter und sperrt sie ein. Von einer Rückkehr in die USA ist nicht mehr die Rede. Als es Betty gelingt, Kontakt zur Schweizer Botschaft aufzunehmen, erfährt sie, dass sie das Land nur ohne ihre Tochter verlassen kann. Das aber will sie...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A renowned author investigates the dark and shocking history of her prairie house. When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected. Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers like him were deemed “undesirable” by the political and social elite, who sought to populate the Canadian prairies with WASPs only. In an atmosphere...
| Автор | Candace Savage |
Anthony Ervin and Constantine Markides are the recipients of the 2018 Buck Dawson Author Award presented by the Internationla Swimming Hall of Fame! "Here Ervin and swim trainer and journalist Markides combine talents to create a biography that is part first-hand narrative by Ervin, with Markides filling in the details and providing context. The formula works, pulling readers into Ervin's experience of the thrill of victory and search for meaning…Featuring more depth, breadth, truth,...
| Автор | Anthony Ervin |
The Clash was one of the most popular and culturally significant rock bands of the 20th century, earning the label «The Only Band That Matters.»While the band definitively dissolved by early 1986, most Clash histories effectively end with the ejection of Mick Jones from the band in August 1983, but We Are the Clash will be the first full-length book to directly challenge the overwhelmingly negative critical consensus about what often is called «The Clash Mark II.»Interwoven with the...
| Автор | Mark Andersen |
As a former senior CIA analyst and author critiquing the inner workings of the US intelligence community, Melvin A. Goodman brings peerless authority, gravitas, and first-person source material to a subject that is of intense interest to those on all positions of the political spectrum: the failure of US intelligence to keep the country safe by providing neutral, politically unbiased facts and analysis.The power of his insider analysis combined with widespread indignation about politicians make...
| Автор | Melvin A. Goodman |
TOSH: Selling and Marketing Points: Candid, funny, name-dropping, page-turning memoir by Tosh Berman, the son of Wallace Berman. Wallace Berman is one of the most significant artists of American culture, associated with the Abstract artists, as well as the Beat Generation. He is “the father” of assemblage art. To get a sense of how well-known he was in his own time, Wallace Berman was featured on The Beatles' “Sgt Peppers...
| Автор | Tosh Berman |
Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award Best of 2019: Nonfiction – Entropy Magazine A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s lifelong struggle. Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life—child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American...
| Автор | Brandon Shimoda |
• The story of Phillip Josephs is a quintessential representation of the importance of immigration. Jared Davidson weaves an engaging tapestry of connections and networks around Josephs, who would eventually become the central distribution point for radical and anarchist materials in New Zealand. • This short and readable biography offers a rare insight into the ways in which information and culture passed across borders in the pre-information age era. • Sewing Freedom will be of particular...
| Автор | Jared Davidson |
Many people are familiar with Emma Goldman’s story, but in this newly translated title we hear the other side, from one of Emma’s loudest detractors Helene Minkin.Helene Minkin was the companion of anarchist firebrand Johann Most and she chronicles with detail and passion their life and struggles within the movement.Most of what we know of this period has remained fairly static for close to a century. In particular, little in the way of new primary sources have found their way to publication....
| Автор | Helene Minkin |
"Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock’s intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacock’s mind is a marvel—there could be no...
| Автор | Doug Peacock |
Even readers unfamiliar with The Last Poets’ historic significance as building blocks of the hip-hop and rap movement, will instantly find this novel a compelling read. The Last Poets were self-proclaimed prophets of ‘hope and change’. The band was formed in 1968 against an incendiary backdrop of the black power movement and murders of Martin Luther King, Kennedy and Malcolm X. Today their socio-political lyrics have a renewed sense of urgency, rallying loud and clear against the fear-based...
| Автор | Christine Otten |
“Brutally and uncompromisingly honest, Sisonke’s beautifully crafted storytelling enriches the already extraordinary pool of young African women writers of our time.” —Graça Machel, widow of former South African president Nelson Mandela Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and...
| Автор | Sisonke Msimang |
“Nothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her self—mind, body, and spirit, full throttle, without apology. Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time. This book is a triumph. This book is a jailbreak from cultural inscriptions meant to keep us locked up, shut up, and conforming.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of Joan Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old is a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection...
| Автор | Kimberly Dark |
In this poignant and personal history of one of America’s oldest theaters, Leslie Stainton captures the story not just of an extraordinary building but of a nation’s tumultuous struggle to invent itself. Built in 1852 and in use ever since, the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is uniquely ghosted. Its foundations were once the walls of a colonial jail that in 1763 witnessed the massacre of the last surviving Conestoga Indians. Those same walls later served to...
| Автор | Leslie Stainton |
Wer ist der Typ mit der Maske? Cro ist Rapper, Produzent, Grafiker, Modedesigner – und der erfolgreichste deutsche Musiker der letzten Jahre. Er begeistert Millionen von Menschen, sein Debütalbum landete direkt auf Platz 1, er gewann Echo und Bambi. Und das ohne große Plattenfirma im Rücken. Hautnah begleiten wir Cro: von den Anfängen in kleinen Clubs, über wilde Studio- und Partynächte bis auf die größten Festivalbühnen Europas. Cros Erfolgsstory ist eine Geschichte von Freundschaft,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The most prominent thing about this book is the author’s voice. As mentioned, it conjures images of a lost era and a distant version of New York City. It is also defined by a gritty, old-school sense of New York humor.It is the tale of an amazing bond between father and son that at the same time tells the story of one of the most vibrant, working-class movements the United States has seen.Sam, and his son, rubbed shoulders with luminaries of time Eugene O’Neill, Diego Rivera, Paul Berman among...
| Автор | Anatole Dolgoff |