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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artistsby Terry GrossISBN 1401300103 (1-4013-0010-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists'Book summary:A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air.
Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has interviewed many of our most celebrated writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists. Her show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, is one of National Public Radio's most popular programs. More than four million people tune in to the show, which is broadcast on over 400 NPR stations across the country.
Gross is known for her thoughtful, probing interviewing style. In her trusted company, even the most reticent guest relaxes and opens up. But Gross doesn't shy away from controversy, and her questions can be tough -- too tough, apparently, for Bill O'Reilly, who abruptly terminated his conversation with her. Her interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss, which is included in the book, prompted Entertainment Weekly to name Simmons its male "Crackpot of the Year."
For All I Did Was Ask, Gross has selected more than three dozen of her best interviews -- ones of lasting relevance that are as lively on the page as they were on the air. Each is preceded by a personal introduction in which she reveals why a particular guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. And in an introductory chapter, the normally self-effacing Gross does something you're unlikely ever to hear her do on Fresh Air -- she discusses her approach to interviewing, revealing a thing or two about herself in the bargain.
The collection focuses on luminaries from the art and entertainment world, including actors, comedians, writers, visual artists, and musicians, such as:
--Conan O'Brien
--Chris Rock
--Michael Caine
--Dennis Hopper
--Dustin Hoffman
--Jodie Foster
--John Updike
--Mary Karr
--Mario Puzo
--Nick Hornby
--Chuck Close
--Eric Clapton
--George Clinton
--Sonny Rollins
--Samuel L. Jackson
--Johnny Cash
--Isabella Rossellini
--Divine
--Uta Hagen
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Ascending Peculiarity : Edward Gorey on Edward Goreyby Edward Gorey, Karen WilkinISBN 015601291X (0-15-601291-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ascending Peculiarity : Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey'Book summary:A vivid self-portrait in words of one of the great American[via]
artists of the twentieth century. Designed to appeal to Gorey lovers as well as
those seeking an introduction to his work, Ascending Peculiarity includes reproductions of previously unpublished drawings and photographs. Edited by Karen Wilkin.
Edward Gorey's extraordinary and disconcerting books are avidly sought and treasured throughout the world, but until now little has been known about the man himself. While he was notoriously protective of his privacy, Gorey did grant dozens of interviews over the course of his life. And as the conversations collected in this book demonstrate, he proved to be unfailingly charming, gracious, and fascinating.
Here is Gorey in his own words, ruminating on everything from French symbolist poetry to soap operas, from George Balanchine and the unique beauty of ballet to Victorian photographs of dead children. We meet the artist in his ramshackle book-lined studio in Manhattan and his equally bizarre house on Cape Cod. We listen as he describes his legendary upbringing and vast range of influences, as well as how he managed to work amid all his cats.More editions of Ascending Peculiarity : Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey:
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Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen Kingby Tim Underwood, Stephen KingISBN 0446390577 (0-446-39057-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen King'Book summary:In this revealing and varied collection of interviews, Stephen King talks about his life, family, films and in particular about his macabre novels of the unknown that have made him so well known. [via]
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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writersby Vendela VidaISBN 1932416366 (1-932416-36-6)
Softcover, McSweeney's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers'Book summary:This book is a collection of conversations between writers and their mentors, taken from the pages of The Believer, along with previously unpublished conversations. The term mentors is used loosely to suggest an informal kinship between a younger writer and a more experienced one. These conversations are not limited to issues of writing and craft, but instead offer unfettered exchanges on a wide range of topics from Buddhism to infinity, politics to mountain climbing. The interviews feature the serious-yet-casual Believer approach to the standard, often formal, interview format. David Foster Wallace, for example, fields the question, Do you want to talk about your history with various forms of tobacco? while George Saunders reflects upon this oft-pondered mystery: Whats up with the crows in Syracuse? Interviews include Zadie Smith talking with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem talking with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell talking with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi talking with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer talking with Edward P. Jones; Dave Eggers talking with David Foster Wallace; Julie Orringer talking with Tobias Wolff; and Ben Marcus talking with George Saunders.[via]More editions of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers:
Bill Moyers' World of Ideasby Bill MoyersISBN 0385416644 (0-385-41664-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Bill Moyers' World of Ideas Anthology Collection : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Futureby Bill MoyersISBN 0385263465 (0-385-26346-5)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bill Moyers' World of Ideas Anthology Collection : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future'Book summary:Conversations with thoughtful men and women about American life today and the ideas shaping our future. Bill Moyers brings us one-on-one interviews with forty-two extraordinary men and women--poets and physicists, historians and novelists, doctors and philosophers--discussing what's happening in our lives, our hearts, and our minds as we approach a new millenium. [via]
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Bill Moyers' World of Ideas : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Futureby Bill MoyersISBN 0385262787 (0-385-26278-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviewsby Jonathan CottISBN 1932958622 (1-932958-62-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews'Book summary:Direct from the mouth of America's most celebrated street poet comes a rare and diverse collection of intimate interviews
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features 31 of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection. Among the highlights are the seminal Rolling Stone interviews -- anthologized here for the first time -- by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder, and Mikal Gilmore, as well as Nat Hentoff's legendary 1966 Playboy interview. Surprises include Studs Terkel's radio interview in 1963 on WFMT in Chicago, the interview Dylan gave to screenwriter Jay Cocks when he was a student at Kenyon College in 1964, a 1965 interview with director Nora Ephron, and an interview Sam Shepard turned into a one-act play for Esquire in 1987. Dylan expert Jonathan Cott writes an introduction to this must-have collection of the artist in his own words. [via]
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Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideasby Brian LambISBN 0812930290 (0-8129-3029-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas'Book summary:Brian Lamb is the most self-effacing man on television. So, all the questions he asks on his C-SPAN history, politics, and public policy author-interview show, Booknotes, are focused on the book and author at hand. What a concept! As a result, this collection of the show's interviews since its inception in 1989 (divided into "Storytellers," "Reporters," and "Leaders"--the latter including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher) is a treasure trove. Where else could you learn that presidential historian Forrest McDonald writes in the nude? Or that New York Times reporter Malcolm Browne started out as a chemist but left the profession after he accidentally blew up his laboratory? [via]
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Burroughs Liveby William S. Burroughs, Sylvere LotringerISBN 1584350105 (1-58435-010-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Conversations with Jorge Luis Borgesby Jorge Luis Borges, Richard BurginISBN 003081023X (0-03-081023-X)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Conversations With William Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, Allen HibbardISBN 1578061830 (1-57806-183-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversations With William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in obscure forums. The interviews collected here provide an aperture into the philosophies, methods, and quirks of a man who wrote Queer, Junky, Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, My Education, and many other works.
When he died in 1997, Burroughs was likely one of the most widely recognizable figures in contemporary American literature. His image circulated on album jackets, in Nike commercials, and in films, as though proving his notion that pictures and words are viruses, invading any receptive host, taking hold, and replicating themselves.
Not surprisingly, the topics Burroughs touches upon are wide-ranging: his relationships to the Beats, legends surrounding his personal life, drugs, gay liberation, collaboration, the cut-up technique, science fiction, politics, conspiracy theory, censorship, cats, guns, David Cronenberg's movie adaptation of Naked Lunch, shotgun art, dreams, and life in Lawrence, Kansas, where he spent his last years. From these interviews emerges a full, undiluted portait of a writer who is difficult to capture in biography.
Speaking of the Paris Review interview Alfred Kazin calls Burroughs "an engineer of the pen, a calmly interested specialist of the new processes. When Burroughs makes philosophic and scientific claims for his disorderly collections of data, we happily recognize under the externally calm surface of the interview, the kind of inner frenzy that is his genius--and which, in all of us, his books make an appeal." Kazin's view applies as well for the other interviews in this collection.
Allen Hibbard is an associate professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction and of many articles. [via]
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Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work Profilesby Charles PlattISBN 0425058808 (0-425-05880-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dream Makers the Uncommon Peopleby Charles PlattISBN 0425046680 (0-425-04668-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dylanby Jonathan CottISBN 0385191618 (0-385-19161-8)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Foucault Liveby Michel FoucaultISBN 0936756322 (0-936756-32-2)
Softcover, Scb Distributors
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Foucault Live: (Interviews 1961-1984)by Micheal Foucault, Sylvere Lotringer, John Johnston, Lysa HochrothISBN 157027018X (1-57027-018-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault Live: (Interviews 1961-1984)'Book summary:Currently in its fourth printing, Foucault Live is the most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date. Composed of every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s until his death in 1984, Foucault Live sheds new light on the philosopher's ideas about friendship, the intent behind his classical studies, while clarifying many of the professional and popular misinterpretations of his ideas over the course of his career. As Gilles Deleuze noted, "the interviews in this book go much further than anything Foucault ever wrote, and they are indispensable in understanding his life work." Most notably, Foucault Live includes interviews he made with the gay underground press during his stays in America during the 1970s. In them, Foucault suggests that homosexuality presents a new paradigm for ways of living beyond the predictable, binary couple. All of the philosopher's interests, from madness and delinquency to film and sexuality, and their resultant writings, are probed by knowledgeable critics and journalists. After reading this book, the reader can explore key notions such as episteme, savoir and connaissance, archeology, and archive, without the knitted brow that plagued Foucault's public when he was alive. This is the guide to Foucault's life as an agent provocateur in the world of philosophy and scholarship.
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIby Studs TerkelISBN 1565843436 (1-56584-343-6)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good War: An Oral History of World War II'Book summary:Studs Terkel, the noted Chicago-based journalist, gathers the reminiscences of 121 participants in World War II (called "the good war" because, in the words of one soldier, "to see fascism defeated, nothing better could have happened to a human being"). These participants, men and women, famous and ordinary, tell stories that add immeasurably to our understanding of that cataclysmic time. One Soviet soldier recounts that, surrounded by the Germans, his comrades tapped the powder from their last cartridges and inserted notes to their families inside the casings; Russian children, he goes on, still turn these up every now and again and deliver the notes to the soldiers' families. Terkel touches on many themes along the way, including institutionalized racism in the United States military, the birth of the military-industrial complex, and the origins of the Cold War. [via]
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Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman And His Collaboratorsby Joe McCabe, Sophia QuachISBN 1560976179 (1-56097-617-9)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman And His Collaborators'Book summary:The most intimate look yet into the life and mind of the bestselling author and creator of The Sandman.
Neil Gaiman is one of the most successful and versatile writers working today. He has become renowned not only for the consistently high quality of his writing but for his mastery of many media. He is an award-winning comic book writer (Sandman), novelist (American Gods), children's book author (The Wolves in the Walls), and television screenwriter (Neverwhere). Yet with all the fans hungry to know more about his work, there has not yet been a single major nonfiction book covering Gaiman's entire creative output. Until now.
Hanging Out With the Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators presents a thorough look at Gaiman's work not only through his eyes, but through the eyes of his many collaborators. Artists, writers, editors, musiciansover two-dozen creators share their thoughts on working with Gaiman and present a unique mosaic portrait of the writer whose name has become synonymous with modern fantasy.
Although the book's scope is not limited to Gaiman's best-selling comic book creation The Sandman, Hanging Out With the Dream King features comprehensive interviews with all of the major Sandman artists, including Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell, Bryan Talbot, and Jill Thompson, as well as well as rare and exclusive interviews with Sandman co-creators Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg.
And, much as Gaiman has done throughout his career, Hanging Out With the Dream King breaks down the walls of media and genre, presenting those who may have discovered the writer's work through one storytelling medium with doors through which they may find his other prodigious creations. Thus, admirers of Gaiman's children's books with Dave McKean will discover his adult work with Gene Wolfe and Terry Pratchett; fans of his novels will discover his comics; and everyone will have the chance to meet Gaiman's folk-rock bandsthe Flash Girls and Folk Underground. Musicians Alice Cooper and Tori Amos are also interviewed.
Illustrated with many unpublished photos and comic pages, this is the book Gaiman's fans have been waiting for. B/w illustrated (with 16 pp. in color). [via]
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Hard Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 1565846567 (1-56584-656-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:First published in 1970, this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential candidate Alf M. Landon, who recalls what it was like to be governor of Kansas in 1933:
Men with tears in their eyes begged for an appointment that would help save their homes and farms. I couldn't see them all in my office. But I never let one of them leave without my coming out and shakin' hands with 'em. I listened to all their stories, each one of 'em. But it was obvious I couldn't take care of all their terrible needs.
The book includes also the perspectives of ordinary men and women, such as Jim Sheridan, who took part in the 1932 march by World War I veterans to petition for their benefits in Washington, D.C., where they were repelled by army troops led by General Douglas MacArthur. Or Edward Santander, who was a child then: "My first memories come about '31. It was simply a gut issue then: eating or not eating, living or not living." Studs Terkel makes history come alive, drawing out experiences and emotions from his interviewees to the degree few have ever been able to match. [via]More editions of Hard Times:
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Hitchcockby Francois Truffaut, Helen G. ScottISBN 0671604295 (0-671-60429-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitchcock'Book summary:Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession. Though this book was initially published in 1967 when Hitchcock was still active, Truffaut later prepared a revised edition that covered the final stages of his career. It's difficult to think of a more informative or entertaining introduction to Hitchcock's art, interests, and peculiar sense of humor. The book is a storehouse of insight and witticism, including the master's impressions of a classic like Rear Window ("I was feeling very creative at the time, the batteries were well charged"), his technical insight into Psycho's shower scene ("the knife never touched the body; it was all done in the [editing]"), and his ruminations on flops such as Under Capricorn ("If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell 'Follow that car!'"). This is one of the most delightful film books in print. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 1565848373 (1-56584-837-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times'Book summary:While American military forces seek to defeat an enemy that has no nation and American citizens ponder a future inextricably linked to the threat of terrorism, legendary writer Studs Terkel steps forward with a remarkable volume of oral histories that sheds new light on fighting for a just cause in uncertain times. As the title of Hope Dies Last suggests, Terkel's interviews all deal with the notion of finding hope in difficult times and holding on to that hope (of a better job, a better life, justice, peace) despite often overwhelming odds. Terkel draws his subjects from an incredibly broad range of backgrounds: pardoned Illinois death row inmate Leroy Orange discusses the events of his life, 94-year-old famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith talks about Enron, undocumented Guatemalans tell of trying to merely survive in modern America. While each testimonial is compelling in its own way, they combine to form a mosaic of human tenacity. Often, as in the case of 1960s civil rights activists, the subjects' ideas are accepted in the long run, for others, including a resident of Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project, the struggle is only just beginning. Terkel, 91 years old at the time of this book's publication, draws from a wealth of human experience but is spry enough to take on new causes and skillfully profile youthful activists with emerging causes. And Hope Dies Last is still a Studs Terkel book, full of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's brand of blue-collar, rabble-rousing, union-card-waving brand of broad shouldered Chicago liberalism that makes the current wave of political writers seem a bit green and petty by comparison. For all of their success in selling books that accuse one another of being liars and idiots, those writers would do well to get out and meet even a few of the people that Studs Terkel has been talking to for years. --John Moe [via]
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 156584937X (1-56584-937-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Times'Book summary:The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre.
Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.
For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion, to the now-retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who hope for a better world. Terkel's subjects express with grace and warmth their secret hopes and dreams, combining to tell an inspiring story of optimism and persistence that resonates with the eloquence of conviction. [via]
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzleby William PoundstoneISBN 0316919160 (0-316-91916-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle'Book summary:Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is their technique that other leading corporations--from the high-tech industry to consulting and financial services--are modeling their own hiring practices on Bill Gates' unique approach. HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft's puzzles and riddles. [via]
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkersby William PoundstoneISBN 0316778494 (0-316-77849-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers'Book summary:For years, Microsoft and other high-tech companies have been posing riddles and logic puzzles like these in their notoriously grueling job interviews. Now "puzzle interviews" have become a hot new trend in hiring. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, employers are using tough and tricky questions to gauge job candidates' intelligence, imagination, and problem-solving ability -- qualities needed to survive in today's hypercompetitive global marketplace. For the first time, William Poundstone reveals the toughest questions used at Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies -- and supplies the answers. He traces the rise and controversial fall of employer-mandated IQ tests, the peculiar obsessions of Bill Gates (who plays jigsaw puzzles as a competitive sport), the sadistic mind games of Wall Street (which reportedly led one job seeker to smash a forty-third-story window), and the bizarre excesses of today's hiring managers (who may start off your interview with a box of Legos or a game of virtual Russian roulette). How Would You Move Mount Fuji? is an indispensable book for anyone in business. Managers seeking the most talented employees will learn to incorporate puzzle interviews in their search for the top candidates. Job seekers will discover how to tackle even the most brain-busting questions, and gain the advantage that could win the job of a lifetime. And anyone who has ever dreamed of going up against the best minds in business may discover that these puzzles are simply a lot of fun. Why are beer cans tapered on the end, anyway? [via]
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Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Readerby Mac MontandonISBN 1560256672 (1-56025-667-2)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader'Book summary:Over the past three decades, Tom Waits has achieved the kind of top-shelf cult status most artists only dream about. In his varied career, he has acted alongside Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Lily Tomlin; his songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Sarah McLachlan, the Eagles, and the Ramones; he's won two Grammys, a Golden Globe, and been nominated for an Oscar; he's coined unforgettable phrases like "better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" and "champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends"; and he's made anyone who's ever listened to his music just that much cooler. Here is Tom Waits in all his mischievous splendor. From a New Yorker "Talk of the Town" in 1976 to an interview by Terry Gilliam in 1999; from album reviews by Luc Sante and David Fricke to conversations with Elvis Costello and Roberto Benigni; from a recent profile in GQ to "20 Questions" in Playboy and reviews of Waits's acclaimed new album, Real Gone, this is the must-have book for every fan of the artist Beck has described as a "luminary," and for music fans everywhere.[via]More editions of Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader:
J.G. Ballardby V. ValeISBN 0965046974 (0-9650469-7-4)
Softcover, Re-Search Pubns
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The Jobby Daniel OdierISBN 039417870X (0-394-17870-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Job:Interview with William Burroughs: Interview with William Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, Daniel OdierISBN 0224618113 (0-224-61811-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, Daniel OdierISBN 0140118829 (0-14-011882-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Language of Life: A Festival of Poetsby James Haba, David Grubin, Bill D. MoyersISBN 0385484100 (0-385-48410-0)
Softcover, Main Street Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets'Book summary:In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Poets speak with Moyers about their work, their lives, and their creativity. In the tradition of the bestselling Healing and the Mind and The Power of Myth. [via]
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Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture, and Erosby Derrick JensenISBN 1931498563 (1-931498-56-3)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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Margaret Atwoodby Earl IngersollISBN 0865380708 (0-86538-070-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Modern Pagans: An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Practicesby V. Vale, John Sulak, StarhawkISBN 1889307106 (1-889307-10-6)
Softcover, Re-Search Pubns
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The New New Journalism: Conversations On Craft With America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craftby Robert BoyntonISBN 140003356X (1-4000-3356-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountaineering expedition to Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year as a prison guard. Susan Orlean follows orchid fanciers to reveal an obsessive subculture few knew existed. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc spends nearly a decade reporting on a family in the South Bronx. And like their muckraking early twentieth-century precursors, they are drawn to the most pressing issues of the day: Alex Kotlowitz, Leon Dash, and William Finnegan to race and class; Ron Rosenbaum to the problem of evil; Michael Lewis to boom-and-bust economies; Richard Ben Cramer to the nitty gritty of politics. How do they do it? In these interviews, they reveal the techniques and inspirations behind their acclaimed works, from their felt-tip pens, tape recorders, long car rides, and assumed identities; to their intimate understanding of the way a truly great story unfolds.
Interviews with:
Gay Talese
Jane Kramer*
Calvin Trillin
Richard Ben Cramer*
Ted Conover*
Alex Kotlowitz*
Richard Preston*
William Langewiesche*
Eric Schlosser
Leon Dash
William Finnegan
Jonathan Harr*
Jon Krakauer*
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Michael Lewis*
Susan Orlean
Ron Rosenbaum
Lawrence Weschler*
Lawrence Wright*
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Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviewsby Donald Barthelme, Kim Herzinger, John BarthISBN 0679409831 (0-679-40983-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Not-Knowing : The Essays of Donald Barthelmeby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0679741208 (0-679-74120-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World since 1953by Paris Review, George PlimptonISBN 0312422393 (0-312-42239-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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To appear:
Jack Kerouac
Norman Mailer
Louise Erdrich
Jonathan Franzen
Gabriel García Márquez
William Burroughs
Denis Johnson
David Foster Wallace
Raymond Carver
Italo Calvino
Grace Paley
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The Paris Review Interviewsby Paris ReviewISBN 0312361750 (0-312-36175-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Gillian McCain, Legs McNeilISBN 0140266909 (0-14-026690-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Andre Malraux, Gillian McCainISBN 0802142648 (0-8021-4264-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Power and Terror: Post 9-11 Talks and Interviewsby Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei MasakazuISBN 1583225900 (1-58322-590-0)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Colin Gordon, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394513576 (0-394-51357-6)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977'Book summary:Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Michel FoucaultISBN 039473954X (0-394-73954-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
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Re/Search No. 8/9: J. G. Ballardby Vale Juno, Andrea JunoISBN 0940642085 (0-940642-08-5)
Softcover, V/Search
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Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledgeby William PoundstoneISBN 0809252023 (0-8092-5202-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Sandman Companionby Hy BenderISBN 1563896443 (1-56389-644-3)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Companion'Book summary:The Sandman was a groundbreaking and award-winning series that told the dark and tragic tale of Morpheus, the King of Dreams. A fascinating mythology of horror and consequence, this epic masterfully combined intriguing literature with captivating art. THE SANDMAN COMPANION is an exhaustive guide to this legend. Revealing hitherto undisclosed information and behind-the-scenes secrets, this book features in-depth interviews, never-before-seen illustrations, character origins, and story explanations and analysis. Also including excerpts from the original proposal for the series, this handbook is the perfect complement to the Sandman graphic novels. [via]
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The Sandman Companionby Neil Gaiman, Hy BenderISBN 1563894653 (1-56389-465-3)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics A Collection of Written Interviewsby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562807 (0-8195-6280-7)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Strong Opinionsby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0679726098 (0-679-72609-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Studs Terkel's Working: A Teaching Guideby Rick AyersISBN 1565846265 (1-56584-626-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Studs Terkel's Working: A Teaching Guide'Book summary:An invaluable educational resource for introducing Studs Terkel's classic work of oral history to today's students. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/journalist Studs Terkel is world famous for his oral histories, considered an innovator in modern ethnographic research. Working, Terkel's most popular book, provides a powerful and original perspective on one of the most basic components of human experience: work. The farmer, receptionist, college professor, mail carrier, stockbroker, athlete, and many others share their daily routines and dreams in their own words. Working has long been recognized as an ideal teaching tool, presenting provocative material certain to engage students, ignite classroom discussion, and inspire thoughtful writing. Now, helping educators discover a variety of approaches for using Working in the classroom, Rick Ayers presents a comprehensive teaching guide to this celebrated classic. With its 200 pages of classroom materials--including questions, topics for discussion, tips for taking oral histories, and a bibliography of related resources--Ayers' teaching guide is certain to be welcomed by educators everywhere. As an added bonus, it includes a new interview with Terkel himself, offering insight into the making of Working. [via]
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The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations With Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsidersby Stephen ThompsonISBN 0609809911 (0-609-80991-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations With Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsiders'Book summary:For ten years, The Onion A.V. Clubthe entertainment section of the award-winning humor publication The Onionhas been interviewing entertainers and storytellers of every style and stripe. But it has always placed an emphasis on those with fascinating, hard-won careers, from amiable retirees and passionate visionaries to bitter, jilted, eternally warring cranks. Collecting dozens of The Onion A.V. Clubs most entertaining and candid interviews, The Tenacity Of The Cockroach offers a pop-cultural tour unlike any other.
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Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomskyby Noam Chomsky, John SchoeffelISBN 1565847032 (1-56584-703-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The chapters, each covering discrete sessions with Chomsky, arrive in a question-and-answer format that at times becomes delightfully contentious. Chomsky holds forth on such disparate topics as American third-party politics, the stifling of true dissent, the illusion of a muscular media, heavy-handed American imperialism (from Southeast Asia to Mexico), a dysfunctional and self-destructing United States political left, the gilding of the Kennedy and Carter administrations, and the impotent state of labor unions.
The relatively accessibility of Understanding Power is a welcome balance to Chomsky's often formidable scholarly writings. This is a book best taken in doses: a sort of bedside reader. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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The Voice of Memory: Interviews, 1961-1987by Primo Levi, Robert GordonISBN 1565847113 (1-56584-711-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumetby Peter Bogdanovich, Robert AldrichISBN 0679447067 (0-679-44706-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Who the Devil Made It? : Conversations with Legendary Film Directorsby Peter BogdanovichISBN 0345404572 (0-345-40457-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunkerby William S. Burroughs, Victor BockrisISBN 0312147678 (0-312-14767-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker'Book summary:[via]Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockris. Bockris has collected into a cogent whole the man's most brilliant moments of conversation, thinking, and interview repartee. This fascinating material, gleaned from the fertile time at Burroughs's New York headquarters, the Bunker (which was located on the Bowery, three blocks from CBGB), encompasses the years 1974 to 1980, and also includes a 1991 Burroughs interview from Interview magazine. The Beats' devotion to subjective experience has left readers with a profound amount of objective material to analyze and debate. Choice public and private utterances, hallucinatory and prescient diatribes such as these, remain rich sources of literary history. As Americans we find the Beats' approach to life romantic, even heroic. Tearing the walls down in the name of freedom and spirituality strikes a particularly pilgrimesque chord. With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker is a fascinating compendium of Burroughs-speak, so complete it can be considered a credo.More editions of With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker:
Woody Allen On Woody Allenby Stig Bjorkman, Woody AllenISBN 0802142036 (0-8021-4203-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation With Stig Bjorkmanby Stig Bjorkman, Woody AllenISBN 0802134254 (0-8021-3425-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Workingby Studs TerkelISBN 1565843428 (1-56584-342-8)
Softcover, New Pr
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Doby Studs TerkelISBN 0394729536 (0-394-72953-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A World of Ideas IIby Bill MoyersISBN 0385416652 (0-385-41665-2)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Writers at Workby George PlimptonISBN 0670790974 (0-670-79097-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Writers at Work, Third Seriesby Paris ReviewISBN 0140045422 (0-14-004542-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Seriesby George PlimptonISBN 0140045430 (0-14-004543-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Writers on Comics Scriptwriting 2by Mark SalisburyISBN 184023069X (1-84023-069-X)
Softcover, Titan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writers on Comics Scriptwriting 2'Book summary:Bolstered by a stellar line-up of the comics industry 's most feted talents, this set of 14 interviews offers both a candid and entertaining insight into the process and experience of writing a comic book. Interviewer Salisbury has done well to assemble a set of interviewees that represent some of the industry's greatest successes (Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman), convention-challenging leaders (Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis) and pioneers of superhero comics (Dan Jurgens, Peter David, Chuck Dixon). Fans will immediately question the absence of the industry's biggest name: Alan Moore. However, Salisbury is quick to note that his absence was down to "sheer volume of work" (Hooray!). Besides, nearly every interviewee cites Moore's gargantuan influence, so he is hardly missing. Gaiman comes across as incredibly well read, while Morrison's approach is either spectacularly ambitious or just plain bonkers. Thanks to Salisbury's probing interview technique, we get an excellent behind the scenes look at the trials and tribulations of a craft that is both challenging and rewarding, in an industry that is not as open to creativity as you might think. As you would expect, there is no clear path to success, beyond the obvious aptitude. However, the most common thread is a rapacious love of the medium and sheer bloody-minded tenacity (often masquerading as bare-faced arrogance in Frank Miller's case!). Aspiring British writers will quickly notice that legendary Brit comic 2000 AD was the breeding ground for much of the current top talent and is the first stop for US talent scouts. Insightful for professionals, mouth-watering for fans and wonderfully inspirational for wannabe scribes, roll on Volume Two! --Danny Graydon [via]
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Les Yeux Ouverts: Entretiens Avec Matthieu Galeyby Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu GaleyISBN 2227320222 (2-227-32022-2)
Hardcover, Le Centurion
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Siete Conversaciones Con Jorge Luis Borgesby Jorge Luis Borges, Fernando SorrentinoISBN 950028460X (950-02-8460-X)
Hardcover, El Ateneo
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