Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays, Horton Randall

Автор: Biden Hunter
Название: Beautiful things
ISBN: 1398507199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398507197
Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK
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Описание: "I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love," Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival.

Автор: Solnit Rebecca
Название: Men Explain Things to Me
ISBN: 1783780797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783780792
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Описание: A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today

Автор: Osborn Carolyn
Название: Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays
ISBN: 1609405447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609405441
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This collection of essays explores the life of the author, from her Depression-era childhood in Tennessee to her adolescence in the Hill Country of Texas, from life as a small town cheerleader to life as a world-traveling author, from the child of a hard scrabble farmer to that of a semi-retired rancher.  Like the main character in her interconnected and often autobiographical short stories, Osborn is extremely curious about her occasionally eccentric family, yet she must continually accept the mysteries of reality -- a mother locked away for clinical depression, country neighbors who appear to live on nothing, the eternal balance of caring deeply for an unforgiving Texas Hill Country landscape while traveling the world from Europe to the Galapagos. Aware of the need for family mythology, she often mines family history (one of her forebears followed Daniel Boone over the Cumberland Gap and was an early settler in Tennessee, and his flintlock rifle hangs in Osborn's living room) and her own distinctly Southern background that witnesses a fading 19th-century morality, readily accepts individual eccentricity, and celebrates storytelling as a way of understanding the world.

Автор: Harlan Megan
Название: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
ISBN: 0820357928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820357928
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family`s extreme and often international version of this common experience.

Автор: Sadiqa de Meijer
Название: alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language
ISBN: 1989287603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781989287606
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: alfabet / alphabetis the record of Sadiqa de Meijers transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience inalfabet / alphabet, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.

Автор: Huber Sonya
Название: Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day
ISBN: 0814258042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814258040
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Автор: Richard Katrovas
Название: Poets and the Fools Who Love Them: A Memoir in Essays
ISBN: 080717663X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807176634
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Poets and the Fools Who Love Them blends autobiography with cultural commentary and meditates on creative writing as a cottage industry within humanities higher education. Celebrated poet and memoirist Richard Katrovas examines his picaresque early years with a criminal father, a beleaguered mother, and four siblings as state and federal authorities pursued the family across the highways of America. His freewheeling, wide-ranging essays consider, among other social constructs, the relation of crime and art, and the relation of both to the authority of the state, particularly in terms of race and class. Katrovas speaks candidly about how white privilege facilitated his father's criminal career, as a lifestyle of larceny and used-car scams, perpetuated state to state, would have surely had different implications for a family of color. Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other creative writers, and reflects upon the ways in which that search has affected his role as the father to three Czech American daughters. The book flows from the love of a poet for other poets, for the "community of poets," one likened to a "gang of priests" and a "herd of bears." Katrovas maintains that most lovers of poets are themselves poets, and those lovers of poets who are not themselves poets are saints.At its heart, Poets and the Fools Who Love Them contemplates, with care and unabashed honesty, the role of art and the artist in the madcap twenty-first century.

Автор: Mary Helen Stefaniak
Название: The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life
ISBN: 1609388518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609388515
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Описание: Culled from two decades` worth of Mary Helen Stefaniak`s `Alive and Well` column in the Iowa Source, each essay in this collection invites readers into the life of a woman `with a family and friends and a job . . . and a history living in one old house after another at the turn of the twenty-first century in the middle of the Middle West.`

Автор: Henry Sussman
Название: The Great Dismissal: Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-22
ISBN: 1501392298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501392290
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: 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. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences?In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on ‘the great dismissal,’ in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.

Автор: Maureen Dunphy
Название: Divining, a Memoir in Trees
ISBN: 0814348424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814348420
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In sixteen essays, each named after a species of tree, Maureen Dunphy explores the nature of human-arboreal relationships, and how each of these trees has—literally—served as a friend, a confidante, or a place to rest. The depth and diversity of these relationships are revealed through essays that are both intimate and universal, moving and informative. While Dunphy's relationships with trees are unique and personal, her work reveals the deep-rooted complexity that connects all of humanity to our staunch, upright companions in life, the members of the "Standing Nation." Beyond providing oxygen, food, and shelter, trees can be sites of emotional refuge, sources of intellectual enrichment, and a boon to physical, mental, and spiritual health.

With essays, such as "Stairway to Heaven: The American Sycamore" and "Rocky Mountain High: The Colorado Pinyon," Dunphy gives readers many ways to reimagine our relationships with nature and self. Within reflections of her personal experience, she skillfully integrates scientific facts to achieve a balance of passion and practicality. While technology, screens, and the stress of the modern world directs our attention elsewhere, Dunphy brings the reader back to the trees right outside our windows.

Автор: Simpson Philip L.
Название: Walking Dead Live!
ISBN: 1442271205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442271203
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Centering on media studies, this collection of essays examines both the show The Walking Dead and its source material, the graphic novels by Robert Kirkman. These essays look at the show from a variety of perspectives-from art and theology to gender, violence, and politics-through the prism of media studies.

Автор: Douglas B. Chambers
Название: The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly
ISBN: 1617033049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617033049
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Описание: Offers a collection of twenty-one literary and historical essays to mark the 50th anniversary of the Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals dedicated to southern studies. The Past Is Not Dead features the best of the work published in the journal. Essays represent every decade of the journal`s history, from the 1960s to the 2000s.