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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
“An extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.” —James Wolcott in his introduction An outstanding new collection, A HITCH IN TIME is a must have for Hitchens completists and the perfect starting point for understanding one of the most brilliant essayists of all time. Anthologized here for the first time, A HITCH IN TIME is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Obituaries are history as it is happening. Whose time am I living in? Was he a success or a failure, lucky or doomed, older than I am or younger? Did she know how to live? Where else can you celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy, the genius behind Sea Monkeys, the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess? No wonder so many readers skip the news and the sports and go directly to the obituary page. This...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This encyclopedic history of pop music begins with Bill Haley and the Comet's 1954 hit, “Rock Around the Clock” and continues up through Beyoncé's first huge hit in 2003, “Crazy in Love,” touching on all the groups and genres in between.
Series
The great courses volume 2100
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written.
13) On Bowie
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fans,"--NoveList.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1028
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Dating from 1910 and subtitled ""An attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe"," The Spirit of Romance is one of the key books in Ezra Pound's revaluation of literary tradition.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on twelve American writers--including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Hart Crane--a renowned American literary critic discusses the greatest authors of American literature whose works make up what he calls the American sublime.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"The only author ever to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers can have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-six pieces on books and writing. Stranger Shores opens with "What Is a Classic?" in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question - "What does it mean in living terms...
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