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Conversations à Alger offre au lecteur une belle et riche palette de quinze écrivains d'ici et d'ailleurs, poètes et romanciers venus dans la capitale au cours des années 2000, dans le cadre rencontres littéraires ou de séances de ventes-dédicaces.
Nassira Belloula, qui les a rencontrés, va au delà des impératifs journalistiques pour faire connaître ces auteurs, jeunes pour la plupart et récemment venus à l'écriture. Elle nous les fait...
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Recounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity
H. L. Mencken (1880—1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author-and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day.
In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on...
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When Sean Mallen finally landed his dream job, it fell on him like a ton of bricks. Not unlike the plaster in his crappy, overpriced London flat. The veteran journalist was ecstatic when he unexpectedly got the chance he'd always craved: to be a London-based foreign correspondent. It meant living in a great city and covering great events, starting with the Royal Wedding of William and Kate. Except: his tearful wife and six-year-old daughter hated...
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1950s Britain - when life was great if you had the guts to live it. Murder, lurid courtroom dramas, gypsy horse fairs, eccentric admirals, child brides, and falling in love - it's all in a day's work for cub reporter John Bull. Meet a cast of characters - from the parish clerk who dresses like a French resistance fighter, complete with rifle over her shoulder, to the medium whose spirit guide (her soldier boyfriend killed in World War II) gets in...
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Un récit de vie chaotique qui vous fera voyager dans le temps !
Ce livre évoque mes souvenirs qui remontent à ma plus tendre enfance joyeuse, baignée au son des rythmes arméniens chez mes grands-parents paternels ayant échappé au génocide de 1915. J'ai vécu une jeunesse dorée dans les années 60 puis la descente aux enfers au cours de la décennie suivante.
Enfant fragile, psychologiquement et physiquement, choyé, protégé puis soudainement...
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“Century's Witness” tells the story of Wallace Carroll, the most respected and influential journalist of the 20th Century.
A United Press correspondent before and during World War II, Carroll was deputy director of the Office of War Information, news editor of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, and finally editor and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. In a career that spanned 45 years, he covered most of the significant...
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“And the Rest Is History” takes readers on a traveling circus from Paris to Beirut, Baghdad, and beyond, introducing them to spies and terrorists, arms dealers and crooks, and along the way reveals a few surprises about the secret underbelly of recent history you won't find in WikiLeaks. This book pinpoints precisely when the era of "fake news" actually began in America and will change the way you think about journalism and journalists. It includes...
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Publisher, professor, mentor, father, husband, writer, Nick Lyons begins his story when his mother drops him off at boarding school at the tender age of five. Little Nicki finds solace in what moves beneath the surface of water. This abiding fascination is a lifeline for him as he stumbles his way through school, through his service in the Army, through the cold disapproving glare of the conman who is his stepfather. Disgusted by his own business...
289) Consent: a memoir
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"A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childhood with a famous, much older writer into a stunning and forceful indictment of the literary world that allowed sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked"--Provided by publisher.
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Pour donner le meilleur de soi, réaliser ses rêves et se dépasser, il est nécessaire de reprendre le parcours de sa vie. Faire une relecture à 50 ans pour tenter de comprendre la source de ses choix, de ses orientations professionnelles et personnelles, à cela se résument les enjeux ayant conduit à l'écriture de La performance d'une vie. Avec le recul que seul peut offrir le temps, l'auteur y reprend individuellement les émotions générées...
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Sagesses d'un peuple en équilibre, roman ponctué de passages philosophiques et de réflexions sur notre rapport au monde, nous amène dans le quotidien des Indiens d'Amazonie. Ici, notre protagoniste participe, avec ces derniers, à leurs activités sociales et spirituelles, et partage leur mode de vie en accord avec la nature. En faisant le parallèle avec nos sociétés occidentales, il nous propose un autre regard sur le monde. En quête d'un...
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Roger Rosenblatt's love song to the written word, in a collection of pieces that celebrate the art, craft, and the soul of writing, from someone who has done it joyfully and successfully all his life. Kirkus Reviews noted that he has excelled in every form. Here are essays and excerpts on the rewards and punishments of leading a life as a writer, along with thoughts on how to write, what to write, and why writing lies at the heart of human hope and...
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Popular culture glorified newspapers in the 1970s, creating a kind of mythical community newspaperman-like Keith Blackledge, longtime editor of the North Platte Telegraph. In his editorials and columns, he praised, scolded, cajoled, teased and encouraged readers. He provided a civic connection while also, mostly behind the scenes, working to make the town better. Blackledge's story resonates today because it's also about the evolution of newspapers....
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Award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Schwartz was, ordered to lie on TV in the name of sensationalism. He was, arrested for trespassing on the property of a business he exposed for committing fraud. A target of one of his investigations swung a baseball bat at his head. He's been shoved, sued, and cursed out. He caught a car dealership rolling back odometers and selling used cars as new. In Confessions of an Investigative Reporter, this veteran...
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Esta obra es una compilación de artículos de opinión publicados en la sección de arte de El Diario NTR entre 2015 y 2019 con el nombre de Letra bastarda. En ellos, el corrector y editor Felipe Ponce comparte sus experiencias personales y profesionales, desde sus primeros encuentros con la literatura, los hallazgos y las desventuras en su formación y el establecimiento de Arlequín, una de las míticas editoriales independientes tapatías.
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Honduras: una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo.
Honduras no es Irak, pero en algún momento, Alberto Arce -único corresponsal extranjero en Tegucigalpa de 2012 a 2014- lo vivió así.
Honduras no es Irak, pero cada año mueren asesinadas 85 personas por cada 100.000 habitantes, una cifra que supera a la de Irak. Honduras vive una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo. Una guerra laberíntica de todos contra...
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The author thought he was another Theodore Dreiser when he arrived in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, in 2003, but editors of the Kansas City Star rejected his reports on life in what politically correct civic leaders called "the Compassion Zone." The editor of the Village Voice PITCH, however, flattered him with insults. Does the Heart of America have a heart? Read all about it!
298) Natasha's Story
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News correspondent Michael Nicholson went to Sarajevo to report on the horrors of the Bosnian War, but ended up smuggling one little girl away from the carnage. Natasha's Story is the heart-wrenching account of how the TV reporter risked everything to bring a nine-year-old orphan home with him, and gave her a new life 1,000 miles from her native land. The true story, which went on to become the award-winning film Welcome to Sarajevo, is both an indictment...
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Ma mère m'a mis au monde sous deux conditions: apprendre à lire avant d'entrer à l'école maternelle, et écrire un livre qui serait publié. Elle m'a dédié son plus beau sourire.
Tu seras édité avant tes vingt ans, comme Françoise Sagan. Ton premier roman connaîtra le succès, ne discute pas, c'est non négociable!
Pour commencer, j'ai appris à marcher, car à quatre pattes c'était impossible de tenir un stylo. Il fallait procéder par...
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Extrait : "J'ai fait mes débuts das le journalisme, entre 1891 et 1892, à la Nouvelle Revue de Mme Adam, au Figaro de Francis Magnard, et à Germinal de Maujan. Je venais d'entrer dans la famille de Victor Hugo, par mon mariage avec la petite-fille du poète et je me trouvais en relation intime et étroites avec tout le milieu républicain."
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