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For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person's potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant.
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and...
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""Sean of the South" Sean Dietrich is known for his stories of steel workers, small towns and trusty bloodhounds, but most of all, the small, everyday evidences of true good in the world. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is his story - told for the first time - of love, loss, and the unlikely hope that we're gonna be alright"--
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Take the off ramp to the world of Hank Stuever, a truly original writer who captures the humorous and haunting rhythms of modern American lives
Hank Stuever's funny, touching reports take us to everyday places where the increasingly unusual realities of today's world run rampant. Stuever--twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--calls this terrain the American Elsewhere. He finds it by bypassing Big News and taking off ramps to places where seemingly...
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Respiramos libros para evitar languidecer. Nos son caros y sustanciales no porque nos recuerden una existencia menesterosa en un mundo difícilmente legible o sean la imagen de la fugacidad de los días y las noches, sino que son la propia vida. Hubo personas que sintieron o pensaron algo que juzgaron digno y nos lo dejaron escrito dentro de unas como botellas de vidrio selladas y arrojadas al mar de los siglos. Al menos eso creemos quienes nos dedicamos...
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From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. While Gellhorn's wartime dispatches rank among the best of the century, her personal letters are their equal: as vivid and fascinating...
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Writing Past Dark charts the emotional side of the writer's life. It is a writing companion to reach for when you feel lost and want to regain access to the memories, images, and the ideas inside you that are the fuel of strong writing. Combining personal narrative and other writers' experiences, Friedman explores a whole array of emotions and dilemmas writers face--envy, distraction, guilt, and writer's block--and shares the clues that can set you...
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of The New Republic, an extraordinary anthology of essays culled from the archives of the acclaimed and influential magazine
Founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann in 1914 to give voice to the growing progressive movement, The New Republic has charted and shaped the state of American liberalism, publishing many of the twentieth century's most important thinkers.
Insurrections of the Mind is an intellectual...
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The Roving I, with wit and wordplay, can spark laughter and tears You'll surely relate to this page-turner if:You enjoy heart-warming stories that tend to stir your emotions.
You like to read about families with problems like yours - or different ones - and their solutions.
You're apt to smile as the anthologist recalls when his partner earned a slot in his Little Black Book.
You can marvel at a woman carrying her sister's "miracle baby" inside...
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For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay-sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental. In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small-from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball,...
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An unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America's wildest-and most brilliant-comedic and literary minds Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman Starting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the world's most interesting places. He spent the fifties on the Left Bank of Paris, the sixties in mod London, and the seventies touring with the Rolling Stones. When the Beatles rolled out...
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In this heart-warming collection, more than a dozen Fox News stars recall their favorite Christmas stories and memories.
Contributors include Maria Bartiromo, Steve Doocy, Peter Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade, Janice Dean, Geraldo Rivera, Lawrence Jones, Dana Perino, Bill Hemmer, Emily Compagno, Sandra Smith, John Roberts, John Rich, Lauren Green, Jesse Watters, Charles Payne, Brit Hume, Bret Baier, Sean Duffy, Rachel Campos Duffy
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Harlan Ellison-master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent-has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays-nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary exploration to personal musing-that demonstrate...
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In February 1956, a remarkable young woman named Christina McCall began her working life as an editorial secretary at Maclean's magazine. It was a legendary time there, when the likes of Pierre Berton, Robert Fulford, June Callwood, Peter Gzowski, and Peter C. Newman graced the magazine's pages. McCall would come to join that illustrious group, and be considered not only one of the best political writers of her generation, but a pioneer for women...
15) Genius and Ink
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In the early years of its existence, the published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars. The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad:...
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"I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin," wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is plenty hell-raising and freedom-fighting to go around. Crowther is a writer whose own career is marked by sharp political and social commentary in the pages of national and regional outlets, from Time...
17) La Vie en fleur
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Extrait : "Ce jour-là, Fontanet et moi, tous deux élèves de cinquième sous M. Brard, ayant quitté le collège à quatre heures et demie, au son de la cloche, selon la coutume, nous descendions la rue du Cherche-Midi, suivis de madame Tourtour, attachée à la famille Fontanet, et de Justine, que mon père avait surnommée la Catastrophe parce qu'elle déchaînait ordinairement autour d'elle les fureurs du feu, de l'air et des eaux."
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'How long does a column take? Well it's 1,150 words and it takes usually between two and three hours to write down. But in reality it has taken me somewhere between three hours and the entirety of my life since I was eight years old.'
Writing on everything from a defense of suburban life and moderate politics to big ideas and pop culture, Daniel Finkelstein is one of the UK's most entertaining and widely read columnists. This collection brings together...
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In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From the skyline to garbage collection, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the apotheosis of such criticism: a postcard that read, simply, "You were never in Chicago."
The dynamic captured in this anecdote has always fascinated Chicago Sun-Times...
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Mark Jacobson has published pieces in Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Esquire, and more. His journalistic beats range far and wide, delving into the realms of politics, sports, and celebrities in pieces on such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Julius Erving, Chuck Berry, Pam Grier (in her Scream Blacula Scream days), Martin Scorsese, and many others. But for Jacobson, New York City has always been topic number one.
Jacobson tells the story of the city...
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