Adding to an already unforgettable collection of comic brilliance, Clive James followed-up Visions Before Midnight and The Crystal Bucket with Glued To The Box - the third and final collection of his hilarious, inimitable columns of TV criticism and a time capsule of 1970s/1980s entertainment.
Cultural criticism at its best, The Metropolitan Critic sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James mix high and pop culture commentary - from Tom Wolfe to Tom and Jerry, from Seamus Heaney to Oz magazine.
Following Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket is another hilarious time-capsule of 1970s television - the second collection of Clive James's ruthlessly funny, inimitable columns dissecting the entertainment of the day.
The editors of O, The Oprah Magazine have combed through the publication's extensive archives to create O's Little Book of Love and Friendship, featuring the very best writing on those topics from fifteen years of O.
Tras el xito contundente y la calurosa acogida de Historias para Contar de Este Lado del Ro, no es sorprendente que la autora de este importante libro haya seguido escribiendo y recopilando historias para juntarlas en un segundo tomo.
366 reflexiones diarias de temas cotidianos como el amor, la amistad, el matrimonio, el noviazgo, los hijos, los valores morales-ticos y adems 12 reflexiones mensuales.
Littérature et Management est une série d’ouvrages qui explore la manière dont la littérature représente les entreprises et le monde du travail pour en enrichir la compréhension, mais aussi alimenter les enseignements et la formation.
The celebrated poet behind such classics as "e;The Red Wheelbarrow"e; and "e;This Is Just to Say"e; presents a collection of essays about North American history.
Three volumes of BBC broadcasts about the US from the New York Times-bestselling author, host of Masterpiece Theater, and "e;international treasure"e; (Booklist).
A brilliant and thought-provoking collection of articles, profiles, and opinions from one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed African American writersA journalist, novelist, and educator, John A.
Beat Generation great Jack Kerouac traverses the vast landscape of American counterculture in this raucous and insightful collectionIn these collected articles, essays, and wild autobiographical tales, Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road, leads readers down the highways and through the myriad subcultures of mid-twentieth-century America, guiding them along with his ingenious observations and brilliant command of language.
An enduring collection of moral and social commentary from one of the twentieth century's most original thinkersThis groundbreaking work epitomizes why G.
May Sarton's lifetime of work as a poet, novelist, and essayist inform these illuminating reflections on the creative life In "e;The Book of Babylon,"e; May Sarton remarks that she is not a critic except of her own work.
Letters from the Caribbean, Arizona, and Elsewhere is a compilation of essays selected from a column by author Ric Hernandez, who wrote them over a three-year period for the Trinidad Express.
Daniel Polsky, shines his introspective light as well as his empathy and belief in the power of the human spirit through the character portraits, odes to loved ones, and thoughts about life and suffering (like that of the Holocaust and 9-11.
Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades.
Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades.
Ever since the term "e;creative nonfiction"e; first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies.
This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical "e;snippets of experience"e; written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical.
