Author: Laurence Seidler
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 183574169X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Busy Being Born charts the rise and fall of a young graduate working in the sex trade. Read wide-eyed as Lady Trocknell introduces our hero to the pleasures of service, recoil at the antics of a bevy of bankers, and share in the sorrow of his eventual fall from grace. Humanity is laid bare and dissected in this extraordinary, fictionalised autobiography where intellect, compassion, and outrageous flights of fantasy somehow work together to create literary magic. Set in 1980s London, each chapter recreates another episode in the author's journey through the dark underbelly of human desire. However, the portrayal of sex, while real and true, is also all analogy: a visceral means of recounting other societal excesses like the rise of money to Godlike status. Clever, provocative, and resilient, Busy Being Born is a living gauntlet where the reader is as likely to laugh as to cry.
Author: Carl J. Porter
Publisher: Open Court
ISBN: 081269760X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan’s output are covered, from his early acoustic folk ballads and anthem-like protest songs to his controversial switch to electric guitar to his sometimes puzzling, often profound music of the 1970s and beyond. The book examines different aspects of Dylan’s creative thought through a philosophical lens, including personal identity, negative and positive freedom, enlightenment and postmodernism in his social criticism, and the morality of bootlegging. An engaging introduction to deep philosophical truths, the book provides Dylan fans with an opportunity to learn about philosophy while impressing fans of philosophy with the deeper implications of his intellectual achievements.
Author: Rachel Kushner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982157690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Author: Bob Dylan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781451648782
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A beautiful, comprehensive volume of Dylan’s lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day—with the songwriter’s edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time. Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time, responsible for modern classics such as “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” The Lyrics is a comprehensive and definitive collection of Dylan’s most recent writing as well as the early works that are such an essential part of the canon. Well known for changing the lyrics to even his best-loved songs, Dylan has edited dozens of songs for this volume, making The Lyrics a must-read for everyone from fanatics to casual fans.
Author: Todd Gitlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162872496X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience. “A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone’s hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison.”—The New Yorker “In the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."—Publishers Weekly "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Boston Phoenix
Author: S. J. Adams
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738730025
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Since sixth grade, Debbie Woodlawn has nursed a secret crush for her best friend, Lisa. All that time, Debbie pretended to love 80s sit-coms and abstinence rallies, just to be with her. So when Lisa hooks up with the most boring guy at school, Debbie decides it’s time to confess her love. But first, she embarks on an almost holy quest.
Author: Susan McCaslin
Publisher: Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1773431463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine is a unique, unified, multi-genre work that includes dialogue, imaginary letters, poems, and reflective essays by two established Canadian poets. Taking cues from Merton himself, Susan and John establish a playful, jazzy, dialogic tone — superabundantly alive. This book invites participation for those who already know Merton’s work and for those who are meeting this whole and broken, prophetic, whimsical, paradoxical prophet and visionary for the first time. Robert Lax once described Merton’s poetry and the man himself as “superabundantly alive.” McCaslin and Porter prove the truth of this description in their enchanting account of the writer-mystic who now comes into his second century of stature and significance, in the words of Boris Pasternak, “[a]live and burning to the end.
Author: David Meltzer
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574231298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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A poetic meditation on the last year of tenor saxophonist Lester Young's life, of joyful playing and self-willed dying. In 1959, at the age of fifty, jazz greaet Lester Young--a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy--died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. As Meltzer explains, "No Eyes is a book about death, and Young sits in for a metaphor for the artist living and dying for and with his art." An "inside" biography, No Eyes is a brilliant jazz-world evocation, composed in free verse whose flow is arrested to capture significant moments, Meltzer creates a layered narrative of vivid colors and textures, the material facts of Young's story dissolving into internalized, projected truths of erotic understanding and spiritual sympathy with the "sweet and isolate lovely other."
Author: Jerold Greenfield
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491740779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Jarreds ultimate and final mission begins after his death. Although his mission began in this world, it is fortified in the hereafter, on the other side. His next eternal life in an adventure in biblical obedience. He is now an agent of God. God gives him the name Kal-El, a Hebraic term meaning Vessel of God. He is truly a dark ops agent in the fullest meaning of the term Dark Ops. His adventures, his torments and his greatest gratifications comes from God himself as he carries out all his missions. Never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined what he would be required to do before he becomes The Guardian and who he would be guarding. It is the ultimate completion of his destiny in the new world in the new kingdom. No doubt you will be gratified and you will have happiness and even perhaps love Jarred more than you thought possible as he demonstrates his obedience to God. His final citizenship, although consecrated in heaven brings him to Jerusalem where he finally becomes The Guardian. The Guardian of who or what you may ask? Remember, Jarred is an angel, although a dark angel, as an angel he is only a messenger, and what a message he brings forth. Although you know what is comingjudge not, or you will be judged for you cannot kill this messenger. Amen brother! After reading this book, you will have received the message. Good luck to you www.darkangeltrilogy.com
