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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning essayist and author of the novel Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe comes a moving and unforgettable essay collection about his travels around the globe as he reflects on the power and complexity of human relationships. From the award-winning essay "Lover's Theme," in which Evan James explores the life of a drag queen in San Francisco, to his poignant story of coming out in "One Hell of a Homie," set against the backdrop of the 1992...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate...
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Language
English
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Part muckraker, part adventurer, and part raconteur, Frazier beholds, captures, and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience. He travels down South to examine feral hogs, and learns that their presence in any county is a strong indicator that it votes Republican. He introduces us to a man who, when his house is hit by a supposed meteorite, hopes to "leverage" the space object into opportunity for his family, and a New York City...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In this book, the author used witty and ironic brushstrokes to face the helplessness and loneliness of gossips, use wisdom to make lies lose place; use vernacular to make readers understand the Chinese millennial culture soul in a limited time, and use short texts to stir up literary history. In addition, it also contains thoughts and experiences from the author about the warmth and cold of life.
本书是余秋雨散文新作,篇幅短小,意境至美。其中包含两个部分内容:...
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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what 'freedom of speech' truly means. Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985,...
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Series
Mei hao sheng huo volume 23
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Only if you can eat and drink with the people you like, you will not betray the goodness of life. The emotions at the table for adults, the sorrows of life, and the joy worth celebrating, all use friends, good food, and a good atmosphere to gain new life energy! The grievances in the workplace, the love and hatred of the family, the confusion of life... Many times, the sorrows that we can't talk to our family members can get comfort from gathering...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Zheng Huajuan xi lie volume 27
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
★從一幢神祕的老屋,看見橫跨三代,經歷二次世界大戰的德國人,最貼近真實生活的歷史 ★鄭華娟搞笑史上最艱鉅的任務!一段淚水與笑聲交織的真實故事! 以講求秩序而聞名的德國,竟有不少老人囤積成疾?燈泡這樣平凡的生活日用品,卻曾在德國停產六年?二戰結束當天燃起的街燈,引來全村莊的人圍觀感嘆? 一份突如其來的遺囑、一幢堆滿雜物的老屋,讓他們整整花了一年的時間清理。隨著一扇扇被打開的房門,塵封已久的祕密與寶物逐一重見天日……華娟以特有的風趣筆調,帶你一起走進這個交織著微光與淚光的故事。...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living. In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader. From a commencement speech he gave at Colby College, to the story of how an oddly placed toilet made him reevaluate...
Author
Series
Shi ji dui hua volume 015
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
獻給 每一個跟時間賽跑的兒女 人生裡有些事,就是不能蹉跎…… 我們出生在山河破碎的時代裡, 你們讓我們從滿目荒涼中站起來, 志氣滿懷走出去。 現在你們步履蹣跚、不言不語了—— 我們,可以給你們什麼呢?—龍應台 禁語行禪時龍應台瞬間決定:放下一切,回鄉陪伴失智的母親,開始寫信。 十九封信...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From Samantha Irby--beloved author of New York Times bestseller We Are Never Meeting in Real Life--a rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago,...
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Language
English
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"Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and...
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Language
English
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Sedaris proceeds from the bizzare conundrums of daily life -- the ettiquete of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows against neurotic songbirds with LP covers -- to the most deeply resonant human truths.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity-thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have on...
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