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All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Onoby David Sheff, John Lennon, Yoko OnoISBN 0312254644 (0-312-25464-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono'Book summary:John Lennon could be angry, as he is in Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970, and nasty, as proven by Albert Goldman's brilliant, scathing The Lives of John Lennon.
But he could also be charming, smart, and extraordinarily witty, as he is in his last interview, published in book form as All We Are Saying. Co-interviewee Yoko Ono is charm-free but valuable, because she sparks the conversation and brings up fascinating stuff that Lennon wished she hadn't, like their mad plots to kidnap her daughter from her ex-husband. As interviewer David Sheff's tape rolls, John and Yoko's anecdotes flow effortlessly: the joys of making their 1980 comeback album, Double Fantasy; the mortifying horrors of John's "lost weekend" in L.A. with Harry Nilsson; John's interestingly twisted family life; John and Yoko and Paul's last get-together, watching Saturday Night Live the night producer Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles $3,200 to reunite on the show (they almost got in a cab and did it!).
Best of all is Lennon's song-by-song account of who wrote which famous tunes and where they came from. "Strawberry Fields" contains an entire childhood memoir, and the production reflects Paul's alleged "sabotage" of Lennon's work. "Please Please Me" was based on a Roy Orbison melody and Bing Crosby's punning song title "Please (Lend an Ear to My Pleas)." The "element'ry penguins" in "I Am the Walrus" refer to idiots like Allen Ginsberg who chant "Hare Krishna" worshipfully. "Hey Jude" was Paul's song comforting John's son Julian when John left his family for Yoko, and Paul's unconscious, reluctant farewell to his writing partner ("go out and get her").
Lennon had been publicly silent and artistically dormant for five years before these interviews, and he was just bursting with the exhilaration of the rebirth of his imagination days before his death. Reading this book is like sharing a day in the life of a very happy man. --Tim Appelo [via]
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American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Musicby Edward StricklandISBN 025320643X (0-253-20643-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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American Dreams: Lost and Foundby Studs TerkelISBN 0345329937 (0-345-32993-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Art of Happinessby Howard CutlerISBN 0340750154 (0-340-75015-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Happiness'Book summary:In this unique and important book, one of the wold's great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human problems and achieve lasting happiness. [via]
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At the Field's End: Interviews With 22 Pacific Northwest Writersby Nicholas O'ConnellISBN 029597723X (0-295-97723-X)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Australian Lives: Stories of Twentieth Century Australiansby Robin Hughes, Film Australia (Organization)ISBN 0207191255 (0-207-19125-5)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
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Because I'm Worth Itby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316909688 (0-316-90968-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Menby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316925195 (0-316-92519-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'Book summary:Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace's latest collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he'd only slow down for a second.
The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don't have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn't belong in this book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied narratives. The book's four-piece namesake takes the form of interview transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead":
It's going to send you someplace which its own length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without even thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of people with real weight.
Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person" slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and holds your attention for about as long as you'd imagine from such a description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a testament to Mr. Wallace's endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the reins completely around that sucker, it's going to be quite a ride. --Bob Michaels [via]More editions of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men:
Broodthaers: Writings, Interviews Photographsby Benjamin BuchlohISBN 0262521350 (0-262-52135-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Caldecott and Coby Maurice SendakISBN 0374225982 (0-374-22598-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-hop Generationby Jeff Chang, DJ Kool HercISBN 0312425791 (0-312-42579-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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A Capote Readerby Truman CapoteISBN 0241123720 (0-241-12372-0)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Children Talk About Books: Seeing Themselves As Readersby Donald FryISBN 0335150322 (0-335-15032-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Conversations About Bernsteinby William Westbrook BurtonISBN 0195079477 (0-19-507947-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Conversations with Glenn Gouldby Glenn Gould, Jonathan CottISBN 0226116239 (0-226-11623-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversations With Glenn Gould'Book summary:One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (193282) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was renowned not only for his musical gifts but also for his erratic behavior: he often hummed aloud during concerts and appeared in unpressed tails, fingerless gloves, and fur coats. In 1964, at the height of his controversial career, he abandoned the stage completely to focus instead on recording and writing.[via]
Jonathan Cott, a prolific author and poet praised by Larry McMurtry as "the ideal interviewer," was one of the very few people to whom Gould ever granted an interview. Cott spoke with Gould in 1974 for Rolling Stone and published the transcripts in two long articles; after Gould's death, Cott gathered these interviews in Conversations with Glenn Gould, adding an introduction, a selection of photographs, a list of Gould's recorded repertoire, a filmography, and a listing of Gould's programs on radio and TV. A brilliant one-on-one in which Gould discusses his dislike of Mozart's piano sonatas, his partiality for composers such as Orlando Gibbons and Richard Strauss, and his admiration for the popular singer Petula Clark (and his dislike of the Beatles), among other topics, Conversations with Glenn Gould is considered by many, including the subject, to be the best interview Gould ever gave and one of his most remarkable performances.More editions of Conversations with Glenn Gould:
Conversations With Glenn Gouldby Jonathan CottISBN 0316157767 (0-316-15776-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Conversations With Isabel Allendeby Isabel Allende, John Rodden, Virginia InvernizziISBN 0292770928 (0-292-77092-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Critique and Conviction : Conversations with François Azouvi and Marc de Launayby Paul Ricoeur, Kathleen BlameyISBN 023110734X (0-231-10734-X)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1960-1993by Gerhard Richter, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, David BrittISBN 026268084X (0-262-68084-X)
Softcover, MIT Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1960-1993'Book summary:Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, is one of the foremost painters of his generation. A great deal has been written about the bewildering heterogeneity of his work over the past 30 years. His seemingly willful and defiant movement between abstract and figurative modes of representation and his seemingly inconsistent methods of applying paint to canvas are consistent, if nothing else, with Richter himselfthe master of the paradoxical statement. Although he has emphasized that he is first a painter and has never been a theorist, he has, throughout his career issued provocative, contentious, and memorable statements.
Over seven years in preparation, this book makes available a selection of Richter's texts from all periods of his career, many translated for the first time. There are public statements about specific exhibitions, private reflections drawn from personal correspondence, answers to questions posed by critics, and excerpts from journals discussing the intentions, subjects, methods, and sources of his works from various periods. The writings are accompanied by 87 biographical illustrations of paintings from the artist's personal collection.
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Dialogue With Photographyby Thomas Cooper, Paul HillISBN 0374138931 (0-374-13893-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Dialoguesby Gilles Deleuze, Claire ParnetISBN 0231066015 (0-231-06601-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogues'Book summary:In the most accessible and personal of his works, Deleuze examines -through a series of discussions with Claire Parnet -such revealing topics as his own philosophical background and development, the central themes of his work, and some of his relationships, in particular his long association with the philosopher Félix Guattari. [via]
Dialogues IIby Gilles Deleuze, Claire ParnetISBN 0231126697 (0-231-12669-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Dialogues in Public Artby Tom FinkelpearlISBN 0262561484 (0-262-56148-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Dialogues in Public Art: Interviews With Vito Acconci, John Ahearnby Tom Finkelpearl, Vito AcconciISBN 0262062097 (0-262-06209-7)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Scienceby Judith BellISBN 0335215041 (0-335-21504-1)
Softcover, Open Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doing Your Research Project: A Guide For First-Time Researchers In Education, Health, And Social Science'Book summary:An invaluable tool for anyone carrying out a research project
We all learn to do research by actually doing it, but a great deal of time and effort can be wasted and goodwill dissipated by inadequate preparation. This book provides beginner researchers with the tools to do the job, to help them avoid some of the pitfalls and time-wasting false trails, and to establish good research habits. It takes researchers from the stage of choosing a topic through to the production of a well-planned, methodologically sound, and well-written final report or thesis on time. It is written in plain English and makes no assumptions about previous knowledge.
This new edition of Doing Your Research Project includes:
- Coverage of latest techniques such as grounded theory
- A new chapter on ethics
- Increased examples from health studies
- New referencing, library searching, and literature review chapters
- Completely updated references throughout
This book serves as a guide to good practice for beginner researchers in any discipline embarking on undergraduate or postgraduate study, and for professionals in such fields as social science, education, and health.
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Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Science: ISBN 0335159877 (0-335-15987-7)
Softcover, Open University Press - Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Science: ISBN 0335190944 (0-335-19094-4)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis - Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Science: ISBN 0335203884 (0-335-20388-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill - Doing Your Research Project: A Guide For First-Time Researchers In Education, Health, And Social Science: ISBN 0335215041 (0-335-21504-1)
Softcover, Open Univ Pr
The Door in the Dream: Conversations With Eminent Women in Scienceby Elga WassermanISBN 0309086191 (0-309-08619-1)
Softcover, Natl Academy Pr
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Edward Said: Continuing The Conversationby W. J. T. Mitchell, Edward W. Said, William J. MitchellISBN 0226532038 (0-226-53203-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations With Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the Westby Wesley WehrISBN 0295980982 (0-295-98098-2)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters With British Intellectualsby Ved MehtaISBN 0231056192 (0-231-05619-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxtonby Graham Lock, Nick WhiteISBN 0306803429 (0-306-80342-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Glass Onion: The Beatles in Their Own Words-Exclusive Interviews With John, Paul, George, Ringo and Their Inner Circleby Geoffrey Giuliano, Vrnda DeviISBN 0306808951 (0-306-80895-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Grrrls: Viva Rock Divasby Amy Raphael, Deborah HarryISBN 0312141092 (0-312-14109-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert Einstein, Carl SeeligISBN 0285647245 (0-285-64724-5)
Hardcover, Souvenir Press
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Imaging Her Erotics : Essays, Interviews, Projectsby Carolee SchneemannISBN 0262194597 (0-262-19459-7)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Musicby Derek BaileyISBN 0306805286 (0-306-80528-6)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversationby David BreskinISBN 0306808013 (0-306-80801-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation'Book summary:David Breskin is a fantastically talented interviewer: he has a knack for asking probing questions and the good sense to make sure his subjects answer them directly. He's assured enough not to be cowed by his famous interviewees, but humble enough to let them do most of the talking. Inner Views contains eight lengthy conversations that Breskin held with some of the most prominent modern film directors, many of them caught in the process of making their most important recent works. Francis Ford Coppola reveals the reasons for making The Godfather Part III after 16 years of refusals. Oliver Stone traces his life from his earliest memories to the making of JFK. Spike Lee, fresh from the success of Do the Right Thing, talks about the meaning of that movie and of Jungle Fever, which followed it. Robert Altman waxes eloquently on his unique filmmaking process, particularly as it relates to The Player and Short Cuts. And Clint Eastwood, caught just before the release of Unforgiven, gives a lively overview of his career. Throw in engrossing conversations with David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Tim Burton and you have a book that provides indispensable insight into the life and work of the world's most intriguing filmmakers. [via]
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Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0345337662 (0-345-33766-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interview With the Vampire'Book summary:In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Interviews With American Artistsby David SylvesterISBN 0300092040 (0-300-09204-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Intrudersby Budd HopkinsISBN 0345346335 (0-345-34633-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Jazz Peopleby Valerie WilmerISBN 0306804344 (0-306-80434-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz People'Book summary:Features interviews with 14 jazz players, including Art Farmer, Cecil Taylor, Clark Terry, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Thelonius Monk, Big Joe Turner and Archie Shepp. It provides portraits of the often troubled lives of the musicians who changed the shape of jazz in the 50s and 60s. [via]
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Jazz Spoken Here: Conversations With Twenty-Two Musiciansby Wayne Enstice, Paul RubinISBN 0306805456 (0-306-80545-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pagesby Edward RuschaISBN 0262681528 (0-262-68152-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Liveby Tom Shales, James Andrew MillerISBN 0316735655 (0-316-73565-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speakby Jean Hatzfeld, Linda CoverdaleISBN 0312425031 (0-312-42503-1)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Martin's Magic Formula for Getting the Right Jobby Phyllis Rodgers MartinISBN 0312517033 (0-312-51703-3)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneuticsby Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Michel FoucaultISBN 0226163121 (0-226-16312-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Negotiations: 1972-1990by Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0231075812 (0-231-07581-2)
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Once a Catholicby Peter OcchiogrossoISBN 0345356705 (0-345-35670-5)
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The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greeneby Graham Greene, Marie-Francoise AllainISBN 0370304683 (0-370-30468-3)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991by Michael AzerradISBN 0316787531 (0-316-78753-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parentsby Ellen Samuels, Noelle HoweyISBN 0312244894 (0-312-24489-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Passion and Craft: Conversations With Notable Writersby Bill Oliver, Bonnie LyonsISBN 0252066871 (0-252-06687-1)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passion and Craft: Conversations With Notable Writers'Book summary:These probing interviews with 12 contemporary writers--all masters of the short story--originally appeared in such places as The Literary Review and Contemporary Literature. There is no fluff here. "We have tried," say the editors, "to go beyond the usual chatting about career and craft, beyond the autobiographical as well." Instead, their goal involved "shedding light on some of the motives behind literary creativity." The questions they pose to the authors arise from an intimate familiarity with the work; the payoff for such preparedness is that the authors answer their questions deliberately and thoughtfully.
Certainly, the interviews also address less specific aspects of the authors' work. When asked if he could write from a female viewpoint, Richard Ford, considered to be a very male writer, replies in the affirmative: "I would never ... say to myself, 'What would a woman say?' Rather, I'd think, Given the circumstances of this person's life, what would this person say? Or do?" T. Coraghessan Boyle discusses the reasons he shies away from happy endings: "First of all, because they tend to be sentimental. But also because there aren't happy endings--we all die." Jayne Anne Phillips compares her unwritten fiction to "a whisper that you can't quite make out.... There's a sense that the book is already there, whole, and I am trying ... to find out what it is and move into it and inhabit it." And Thom Jones rails against the typical magazine short story. "Why do stories have to be boring?" he asks. "Why do we always have to read about some angst-laden, upper-level executive driving around Cape Cod in a Volvo?" --Jane Steinberg [via]
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A Passion for Scienceby Alison Richards, Lewis WolpertISBN 0198542135 (0-19-854213-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words Writings And Interviewsby Bruce Nauman, Janet KraynakISBN 0262640600 (0-262-64060-0)
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Pure Cop: Cop Talk from the Street to the Specialized Units-Bomb Squad, Arson, Hostage Negotiation, Prostitution, Major Accidents, Crime Scenceby Connie FletcherISBN 0312928580 (0-312-92858-0)
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Reinventing the Future: Conversations With the World's Leading Scientistsby Thomas A. BassISBN 0201407957 (0-201-40795-7)
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The Rock Musicianby Tony SchermanISBN 0312095023 (0-312-09502-3)
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The Salmon of Doubtby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345455290 (0-345-45529-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Salmon of Doubt'Book summary:On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacywhich includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfictionDouglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as his short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters.
In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boys first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans cant make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.
Welcome to the wonderful mind of Douglas Adams.
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The San Francisco Poetsby David MeltzerISBN 034502219X (0-345-02219-X)
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female: By the Staff of the Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University, Alfred C. Kinsey ... Et Al. ; With a New Introduction by John Bancroftby Institute for Sex Research, Alfred Charles Kinsey, Alfred C. KinseyISBN 025333411X (0-253-33411-X)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Signposts in a Strange Landby Walker PercyISBN 0312254199 (0-312-25419-9)
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Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations With Palestinians in Israelby David Grossman, Haim WatzmanISBN 0312420978 (0-312-42097-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Songwriters on Songwritingby Paul ZolloISBN 0306812657 (0-306-81265-7)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Songwriters on Songwriting: The Expanded Versionby Paul ZolloISBN 0306807777 (0-306-80777-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Subtitles: On The Foreignness Of Filmby Atom Egoyan, Ian BalfourISBN 0262050781 (0-262-05078-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subtitles: On The Foreignness Of Film'Book summary:Unlike most books about film, this actually takes the shape of one. Its unusually squat, wide format shares the horizontal aspect ratio of most movies (1.66:1), and surveying the interplay of text and image on the pages of Subtitles is reminiscent of watching a subtitled film, which is appropriate given the subject. Edited by filmmaker Atom Egoyan and York University professor Ian Balfour, Subtitles is a provocative collection of essays, interviews, and artwork that all touch on the subject of how movies are translated (and misunderstood) as they travel between languages and cultures. As the editors write in the introduction, "Subtitles are only the most visible and charged markers of the way in which films engage, in direct and oblique fashion, pressing matters of difference, otherness and translation." Egoyan himself contributes two pieces. One culls together unused publicity stills from his movie The Sweet Hereafter that have been augmented by new subtitles written by the author of the original novel, Russell Banks. The other is an interview with fellow director Claire Denis: they discuss how a conversation in her film Vendredi Soir that was meant to be largely inaudible to French viewers was fully subtitled for the English audience, changing the nature of the scene entirely.
Throughout Subtitles, the notion that subtitles are neutral translations of what the characters are speaking gets tossed out the window. In "Cultural Ventriloquism," Henri Behar relates some of the dilemmas he's experienced translating films like Boyz 'N the Hood into French. Perplexed by Ice Cube's climactic line--"Five thousand"--Behar decided not to offer any translation. Months later, he learned that "five thousand" was short for "Audi 5000," as in "I'm outta here." (Behar added the subtitle: "Je me casse.") In two other essays, B. Ruby Rich and John Mowitt reveal how foreign films get designated as such by the American industry and Oscar voters. Moving beyond issues of language to issues of culture, Negar Mottahedeh's "Where Are Kiarostami's Women?" examines how the much-celebrated work of director Abbas Kiarostami is influenced by the officially mandated marginalization and absence of women in Iranian cinema, something most Western critics have failed to note.
Though Subtitles is rarely a breezy read--some pieces are so laden with academic jargon and Deleuze references, they nearly turn English into a foreign language--it contains many valuable insights about films and the cultural baggage they carry. Veteran subtitle-readers will find much to relish between these widescreen covers. --Jason Anderson [via]
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Talking Horseby Bernard Malamud, Alan Cheuse, Nicholas DelbancoISBN 0231101856 (0-231-10185-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking Horse'Book summary:"I think it hurts a writer," said fiction writer Bernard Malamud, "to have his secrets known--his method of working disclosed while he is still active." Malamud was, according to his colleagues Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco (the editors of Talking Horse), "resolutely private about the construction of his finished work." Maybe so. But over a lifetime, he wrote an impressive amount of material about his own work, and about fiction in general. Talking Horse collects much of that material--speeches, book introductions, interviews, lesson plans, essays, and more. Included here are notes on The Natural, a defense of fantasy, musings on the great task of embarking on a novel, and a discussion about Jewishness in American fiction. Though most fiction writers see the short story as a warm-up for writing longer fiction, Malamud loved the form. "Within a dozen or few more pages," he said, "whole lives are implied and even understood." He displays here, by turns, endearing humility ("it took years for my work to impress me"), a piercing intellect, disdain for "gossips" who want to know the person behind the fiction, and a strong belief not only that the work must speak for itself, but that there is likely "more to a book or short story than the writer himself knows." A very satisfying collection from a man who liked to claim that "as a writer I learned from Charlie Chaplin." --Jane Steinberg [via]
Tell Me Moreby Peter Occhiogrosso, Larry KingISBN 0312926901 (0-312-92690-1)
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That's Blaxploitation! : Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury)by Darius JamesISBN 0312131925 (0-312-13192-5)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Thinking in Jazz: The Infinity Art of Improvisationby Paul F. BerlinerISBN 0226043819 (0-226-04381-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Cultureby Melinda Camber PorterISBN 0306805405 (0-306-80540-5)
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What Am I Doing Hereby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0224026348 (0-224-02634-8)
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What Should I Do With My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Questionby Po BronsonISBN 0345485920 (0-345-48592-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Should I Do With My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question'Book summary:In What Should I Do with my Life? Po Bronson manages to create a career book that is a page-turner. His 50 vivid profiles of people searching for "their soft spot--their true calling" will engage readers because Bronson is asking himself the same question. He explores his premise, that "nothing is braver than people facing up to their own identity," as an anthropologist and autobiographer. He tackles thorny, nuanced issues about self-determination. Among them: paradoxes of money and meaning, authorship and destiny, brain candy and novelty versus soul food. Bronsons stories, limited to professional people and complete with photos, are gems. They include a Los Angeles lawyer who became a priest, a Harvard MBA catfish farmer turned biotech executive, and a Silicon Valley real estate agent who opened a leather crafts factory in Costa Rica.
Bronson is a gifted intuitive writer, the bestselling author of The Nudist on the Late Shift, whose thoughtful, vulnerable voice emerges as the books greatest strength and challenge. He describes his subjects lives along with the ways they annoy, puzzle, and worry him. He frets about meddling with his questions, yet once, memorably and appropriately, he offers a talented man a top post in his publishing company. While this creates the juiciness of his portraits, it also can make Bronson the books most memorable character and the only one whose story is not resolved. Even so, this remarkable career chronicle sets the gold standard for the worth of the examined life. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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What We Know So Far: Wisdom Among Womenby Grace Paley, Matilda Cuomo, Billie Jean King, Beth BenatovichISBN 0312136188 (0-312-13618-8)
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A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzerby Richard MeltzerISBN 0306809532 (0-306-80953-2)
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World Orders Old and Newby Noam ChomskyISBN 0231101570 (0-231-10157-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Orders Old and New'Book summary:Chomsky takes on the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He develops a forceful critique of Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton administration's empty promises to the poor.
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Writings Interviewsby Richard SerraISBN 0226748804 (0-226-74880-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Yacker: Australian Writers Talk about Their Workby Candida BakerISBN 0330270648 (0-330-27064-8)
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