Musings II: Articles, Essays, and Other Writings

Musings II: Articles, Essays, and Other Writings

Author: Michael Starsheen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1329520173

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A collection of essays, articles and other writings from a period of the past decade or so. They contain spiritually themed topics (mostly), and are often tinged with humor, such as "Drinking Buddies of the Gods."


Musings - The Short Happy Pursuit of Pleasure and Other Journeys

Musings - The Short Happy Pursuit of Pleasure and Other Journeys

Author: Joseph Rosendo

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781735330709

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Musings is a collection of crisp, entertaining, humorous and inspirational stories tightly written and drawn from adventurer and four-time Emmy(R)-award-winning PBS director and host Joseph Rosendo's travel and life experiences.


Satin Island

Satin Island

Author: Tom McCarthy

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1101874686

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Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world—modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in. U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures—as only he can—the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives.


The Town Slowly Empties

The Town Slowly Empties

Author: Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1909394769

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How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of life he encounters in the first weeks of a global pandemic. His stories about local fish sellers, gardeners, barbers and lovers merge with his concerns for the exodus of migrant labourers, the challenges faced by health workers, and a mother braving checkposts to bring her son home. Drawing inspiration from contemporary literature and cinema, The Town Slowly Empties is a unique window on a world desperate for love, care and hope. Manash is our Everyman, urging us to slow down and mend our broken ties with nature. Written with rare candour and elegance, this meditative book is a compelling account of the human condition that soars high above the empty streets.


Cinemusings

Cinemusings

Author: John McCarty

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2018-05-07

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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John McCarty began his writing career as a film reviewer and interviewer for such cinema-oriented periodicals and “fanzines” as Cinefantastique, Take One, Film Heritage, Filmaker’s Newsletter, Today’s Filmmaker, Fangoria, Starlog, Filmfax and many others before he turned to writing books about his favorite subject since grade school – the movies. In Cinemusings, he has drawn from this output of more than 50 years to take us on a personal journey with him of the films and filmmakers he has come to cherish over a lifetime of obsessive movie-watching. They include favorite essays, reviews, profiles and interviews selected from these magazines (many of which are no longer in existence) and from several of his long out of print books (Splatter Movies, The Modern Horror Film, and Thrillers). They cover subjects here and abroad that span the history of cinema itself – from directors Alfred Hitchcock to Paul Morrissey, Fritz Lang to Frank LaLoggia, Charles Laughton to David Cronenberg, Sam Peckinpah to George A. Romero; and films ranging from The 39 Steps, Double Indemnity, and Heavenly Creatures to Orders to Kill, The Fly, The Wild Bunch, and much, much more.


Encyclopedia of the Essay

Encyclopedia of the Essay

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13: 1135314101

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This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies


Modern Animal

Modern Animal

Author: Yevgenia Belorusets

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-30

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781735075051

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In the age of autofiction and its attendant narcissism, the young, Berlin-based Yevgenia Belorusets is a point of relief. Her work, grounded in years as a photo-journalist, is exuberant rather than premeditated. It brings together the stories of many to form its identity.MODERN ANIMAL knots together humans and animals, retelling interviews, folktales, memories, and visions of the people--bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class--encountered on a five-year journey through Ukraine. A lecture format, following the Soviet style, disintegrates; as, at times, do logic and language. The product is a revolutionary approach to anthropology, what it means to become and behave like something else.Without judgement or simplification, Belorusets provides intimate revelations of human-animal relationships: how we shape each other, use each other, and, at times, cross the lines that distinguish us from one another. In conversation, she finds the lost and forgotten remains of something pagan, but still irrepressibly modern.


Musings II

Musings II

Author: R. L. Averette

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-07-30

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1467864064

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Musings of the Masters

Musings of the Masters

Author: Raymond Ayoub

Publisher: MAA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780883855492

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The anthology is a collection of articles written by renowned mathematicians of the twentieth century. The articles span roughly a century in time and a wide range in subject. They are by mathematicians acknowledged by their peers as outstanding creators whose work has added richly to the discipline.