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81) Not Yet Human
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"A concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment." That's an aphorism, says Merriam-Webster's online dictionary. There are 750 of them in Not Yet Human! David L. Laing's mind overflows with images and ideas. Often that boundless creativity manifests as drawings, sometimes as articles, occasionally as novels. Most recently, hundreds of aphorisms have gushed forth, enough to fill four books. This is the first. The series...
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Outlaw bikers and 1%er motorcycle clubs have always carefully guarded their privacy, however in recent years more and more books have come to be written by and about outlaw bikers, the lifestyle, and the realities of life inside the patched motorcycle club world. This anthology brings together some of the best authors in the world, who have recently written about motorcycle clubs, outlaw bikers and the biker culture. It features excerpts from internationally...
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This book is a collection of nonfiction essays by Richard Maibaum commenting and reflecting on his thoughts about Broadway and Hollywood, particularly ideas about writing, story development, and the significance of characters. It reflects forty years of thinking on the subject, from the late 1940s through late 1980s, shortly before his passing.
It is the closest thing to a textbook that a writer of his stature and, as busy as he always was, could...
84) Mere Malarkey
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In 2019, Alan Good was, given a blogging account at Neutral Spaces, an ad-free website for independent writers, which prompted him to write in a new style, more personal, less polished. Mere Malarkey collects his Neutral Spaces pieces along with essays and reviews that appeared in Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Bookslut, and Atticus Review, as well as a handful of previously unpublished essays. From the impact of ska on his literary development,...
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Sounding the Whale is Christopher Sten's comprehensive account of his own close encounter with Moby-Dick. Originally a long, self-contained chapter in The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel, just published by Kent State University Press, this chapter-by-chapter study of Moby-Dick evolved as a book within a book. Sten argues that Melville not only was familiar with the traditional forms of narrative but that he refined them...
86) Tierra nueva
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En Tierra nueva de Mario Escobar Velásquez, reencontramos al escritor ya conocido en otros libros suyos como En las lindes del bosque e Historias de animales, aparecen de nuevo sus dotes de observador minucioso y su talento descriptivo, capaces de retratar de manera inolvidable a las gentes, a los animales y el paisaje del Urabá de mediados del siglo XX.
El lenguaje de Mario Escobar, con sus modos tan propios, se pega al lector como las caricias...
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Set in the imaginary Igbo village, Iwu, this play tries the lowest fathoms of lunacy, and from there surveys a sane world; mocks the sanity of common-minded folk and quakes the strongholds of Time-weathering Customs! A comedy to our best, Forewarning to every beast; But lest we give too much away, We hold our peace, as ancients say!
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Written in the form of intimate letters, this 1915 collection covers a wide range of literary subjects, including Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, the legend of Faust, Nietzsche, J. M. Barrie, Swinburne, Kipling, John Galsworthy, George Meredith, Anatole France, journalism, satire, mystics and pessimists, "A Publisher's Book Trade Dinner," and "On the Wisdom of Doing Nothing."
90) Eunoia
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Eunoia is a haunting collection of eclectic poems, some light and breezy, others dark and gripping, some offering solace and comfort, others setting you thinking about the meaning of life and everything we do. Yet throughout, Majethia very boldly helps the reader explore and discover, jump into danger, into depths, dare, and dream, showing the reader what a fascinating and twisted feeling it is to live within the skin of the universe rather than live...
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Between projects, the distinguished English poet dipped into his notebooks in 1917 to offer this "commonplace book of a journeyman of letters." Includes "Literature and Life," "True Learning," "Catholicity in Taste," "His Greek Models," "An Aphorism for Critics," "Petty Criticism," "Johnson on Criticism," "The Author's Responsibility," "Genius and Mediocrity," "The Perils of Irony," and many more.
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"Hoy, a esta hora aproximadamente, se cumple un año exacto del accidente que me llevó hasta el borde del túnel y la luz. Tropecé con una piedra y caí pesadamente golpeando con la cara el duro suelo de mi casa, rompiendo mi nariz, la que quedó enterrada en el suelo. Cinco días después estaba siendo internado en la clínica, con fiebre que hacía sospechar de covid-19 y que, finalmente, resultó ser una bacteria alojada en la zona cervical de...
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A dozen stories by the elusive Craig Rodgers. Some of the stories have been published before in literary journals, some of them now defunct. Others are seeing print for the first time. All of them are distinctly stories that could only have been written by Craig Rodgers, a writer who doesn't care about fads or schools, only words and stories.
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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is historically recognized as the first woman to make a living through writing; her plays, novels, poems and pamphlets have met with fresh notoriety since the 20th Century. Her work was particularly significant to a group of contemporary writers known as The Female Wits, as well as to later feminist writers like Virginia Woolf. Stories of comedy and intrigue, complete with and masks, mistaken identities, visual deceptions, and...
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Collaborative Form attempts to show the nature and limits of works of art that are made up of two or more artistic forms. The first task of this book is to analyze and interpret a set of such combinations. Each chapter treats one collaborative work and attempts to show that the principles of collaboration are the same, whether the components are poetry and graphic works as in Lettera Amorosa by Rene Char and George Braque, poetry and music as in Herzgewachse...
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Published in 1906, this collection of speeches constitutes a forceful polemic for judging art, and literary art in particular, by a Judeo-Christian moral compass. The author warns against the doctrine of "art for art's sake," finding that its true aim is "to put something ignoble in the place of what should be noble; something vulgar or something vile in the place of what should be wholly pure or wholly fine."
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Este volumen es un homenaje a dos grandes figuras de las culturas indígenas de América que nos abandonaron recientemente, Francisco Toledo y Humberto Ak'abal, y al mismo tiempo un reconocimiento a dos poetas actuales (Susy Delgado, Vicenta María Siosi), pero que pertenecen ya a la historia de las respectivas literaturas. Para resaltar su extraordinario valor invitamos a participar como presentadores a tres grandes estudiosos de las literaturas...
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This 1870 collection of essays was drawn from Emerson's lectures delivered over the previous twelve years. The title essay features Emerson's defense of solitude against the demands of society. Among the other works included are "Civilization," "Art," "Eloquence," "Domestic Life," "Works and Days," and "Old Age."
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This 1914 volume, "a simple record of happy and memorable hours spent in the company of favourite books, and a tribute of gratitude to their authors," contains the chapters "The Birth of a Book-Lover," "In Green Pastures," "Beside Still Waters," "In a Brown Study," and "The Peter Pan of Bookland," among others.
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This 1919 collection of essays is a republication of the 1913 volume, Clio, A Muse, with the addition of four new essays: "The Two Carlyles," "Englishmen and Italians," "The News of Ramillies," and "The Hegira of Rousseau." Contents also includes "If Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo" and "The Muse of History."
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