New York Stories
New York Stories

Author: Editors of New York Magazine

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-06-23

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0307755584

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The magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades. Covering subjects from “Radical Chic” to Gawker.com, written by some of the country’s most renowned authors, here are works that broke news, perfectly captured the moment, or set trends in motion. In New York Stories, Gloria Steinem (whose Ms. Magazine was introduced in New York) broaches the subject of women’s liberation; Tom Wolfe coins “The Me Decade”; and Steve Fishman piercingly portrays the unwanted martyrdom of the 9/11 widows. Cutting edge features that invented terms like “brat pack” and “grup”; profiles of defining cultural figures including Joe Namath, Truman Capote, and long-shot presidential candidate Bill Clinton; and reports that inspired the acclaimed movies Saturday Night Fever, GoodFellas, and Grey Gardens–all are included in this one-of-a-kind compilation. The writers who chronicled the times that began with Nixon’s campaign and end with Obama’s are at their best in New York Stories. It’s an irresistible anthology from a magazine that, like the city itself, is still making stars, setting standards, and going strong.

Toward Robert Frost
Toward Robert Frost

Author: Judith Oster

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1994-02-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780820316215

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Every poem, Robert Frost declared, "is an epitome of the great predicament, a figure of the will braving alien entanglements". This study considers what Frost meant by those entanglements, how he braved them in his poetry, and how he invited his readers to do the same. In the process it contributes significantly to a new critical awareness of Frost as a complex artist who anticipated postmodernism--a poet who invoked literary traditions and conventions frequently to set himself in tension with them. Using the insights of reader-response theory, Judith Oster explains how Frost appeals to readers with his apparent accessibility and then, because of the openness of his poetry's possibilities, engages them in the process of constructing meaning. Frost's poems, she demonstrates, teach the reader how they should be read; at the same time, they resist closure and definitive reading. The reader's acts of encountering and constructing the poems parallel Frost's own encounters and acts of construction. Commenting at length on a number of individual poems, Oster ranges in her discussion from the ways in which the poet dramatizes the inadequacy of the self alone to the manner in which he "reads" the Book of Genesis or the writing of Emerson. Oster illuminates, finally, the central conflict in Frost: his need to be read well against his fear of being read; his need to share his creation against his fear of its appropriation by others.

Someday, Somewhere
Someday, Somewhere

Author: Lindsay Champion

Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1525300423

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Dominique is a high-school junior from a gritty neighborhood in Trenton, where she and her mom are barely getting by. Ben is a musical prodigy from the Upper East Side, a violinist at a top conservatory. When Dom's class attends a concert at Carnegie Hall, she expects to be bored. But then she sees the boy in the front row playing violin--and is transfixed.ixed.

Summary of Keenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age
Summary of Keenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age

Author: Milkyway Media

Publisher: Milkyway Media

Published: 2024-01-14

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13:

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Get the Summary of Keenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Kenan Thompson's memoir, "When I Was Your Age," chronicles his journey from a child growing up in Georgia to a celebrated comedian on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL). Thompson shares anecdotes from his unconventional childhood, his early admiration for Nickelodeon, and his breakthrough in show business with "All That." He recounts his initial feelings of being out of place among his castmates and how his passion for sketch comedy, nurtured with his brother Kerwin, helped him succeed. Thompson reflects on his family's modest life in Atlanta, the impact of systemic racism, and his parents' influence on his values and parenting style. He discusses his experiences with weight and body image, the challenges of balancing a demanding career with fatherhood, and the lessons learned from financial hardships and betrayal. Thompson also delves into his relationships with fellow comedians, the complexities of fame and love, and his advocacy for diversity on SNL. He expresses gratitude for the mentorship he received and his desire to mentor the next generation, all while considering his future beyond SNL.

You Can't Go Home Again
You Can't Go Home Again

Author: Thomas Wolfe

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1451650507

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Now available from Thomas Wolfe’s original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that “will stand apart from everything else that he wrote” (The New York Times Book Review)—first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfe’s magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that takes him deep into New York’s hectic social whirl; to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler’s shadow. He discovers a world plagued by political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace. He is a changed man yet a hopeful one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully “go back home to your family, back home to your childhood…away from all the strife and conflict of the world…back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time.”