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National book critic John Freeman pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, including such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat,...
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Following Jesus is a journey none of the people in this book ever expected to take. Why did they?What difference did it make?The book you're holding is dangerous. If you read it, you'll see that God is still active in saving even the most unexpected people: An atheist woman who viewed Christians as "idiots." A married couple high in the leadership ranks of the Mormon church. An African-American man who became a Black Muslim out of hatred for white...
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The collection uncovers several unreleased Mitchell originals, including zJesusy recorded in 1969 at her friend Jane Lurie’s New York apartment in Chelsea, which also served as the setting for the song zChelsea Morning.y Other highlights include Mitchell’s performance at Le Hibou Coffee House in Ottawa on March 19, 1968 that was recorded by Jimi Hendrix and a concert at the Paris Theatre in London on October 29, 1970 that was broadcast...
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Baseball oral history project volume 1
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In this delightful book that every baseball fan will cherish, ten outstanding ballplayers remember the heyday of the game in the 1930s and 1940s. It was the era of Gehrig and DiMaggio; of Foxx, Greenberg, and Williams; of Grove and Feller. Elden Auker, Tommy Henrich, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bob Feller recall some great rivalries: Auker pitched to Ruth and Gehrig, then faced Dizzy Dean in an unforgettable World Series; Henrich was a clutch...
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Not your ordinary job search book. Take Control of Your Job Search! covers an issue that plays a critical role in a successful job search that is largely unaddressed in career literature. This book will help you discover how your emotions can be a roadblock to landing a job and how to overcome the challenges.
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What does it mean to face a life prison sentence? What have "lifers" learned about life-from having taken a life? Photographer Howard Zehr has interviewed and made portraits of men and women in Pennsylvania prisons who are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. Readers see the prisoners as people, de-mystified.
Brief text accompanies each portrait, the voice of each prisoner speaking openly about the crime each has committed, the utter...
8) Chanchullos
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Estos Chanchullos de Nicanor Parra son un collage de fragmentos de múltiples entrevistas que el poeta ha concedido a los largo de los años. En ellos, Parra se muestra renuente a la confesión biográfica y sentimental, aunque logra un despliegue móvil y brillante de temas, intensidades y contradicciones. Estas páginas juntan sus declaraciones literarias, comentarios culturales y políticos y muestran una vitalidad dispersa en torno a la poesía,...
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La poesía no es personal, esta construido sobre el montaje de intervenciones o entrevistas que Millán concediera desde 1984 hasta su muerte, funciona como una guía para aproximarse a su trabajo y también como un autorretrato. Los temas a los que alude Millán son muy diversos. Sus inicios en la escritura. Su generación. La dictadura y el exilio. La poesía como construcción. La poesía no es personal está hecha para tener valor de uso. Invita...
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What makes Dave Barry funny? Stephen King scary? Tami Hoag heartbreaking?
All readily admit that where they live greatly influences what they write.
Indeed, for both writers and readers, geography may well be destiny when it comes to fiction. Novelists often borrow from their surroundings, consciously or subconsciously, to create their imaginative worlds, just as we readers are drawn to those works that transport us to more exciting and inspiring...
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Este volumen reúne, por primera vez, más de setenta entrevistas a cincuenta y siete figuras del pensamiento, las artes y las letras españoles, realizadas por un elenco de dieciocho entrevistadores. Hasta ahora inéditas en España, fueron publicadas en la prensa argentina entre 1907 y 1958. Leídas en conjunto, forman una suerte de mural de la cultura española de la primera mitad del siglo XX.
Filósofos y novelistas, bailaoras y pintores,...
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Wenn der Staat DDR kritisiert wird, fühlen sich oft auch die Menschen kritisiert, die in ihm gelebt haben. Das macht Gespräche innerhalb von Familien über ihr Leben in der DDR so schwierig. Viele schweigen bis heute, doch in ihrem Schweigen wächst die Wut.
Auf Initiative der Filmemacherinnen Sabine Michel und Dörte Grimm wagen Kinder und Eltern aus ganz unterschiedlichen Verhältnissen erstmals eine Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Geschichte....
13) La tercera mano
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Aparte de algunos textos sobre arte dispersos en revistas, Adolfo Couve no dejo registro escrito de su ideario estético. Su pensamiento lo compartía mayoritariamente de manera oral, en sus clases en la universidad y en conversaciones ocasionales. Escucharlo era estimulante, por la agudeza de las observaciones, por el humor y por los ejemplos dislocados que solía utilizar. Si no fuera por las entrevistas que dio durante treinta años, sus iluminadoras...
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A través de diversos fragmentos de entrevistas en medios impresos, documentales, radio, televisión, conferencias y discos, Materiales de mi canto va trazando el camino vital y artístico de Violeta Parra en su propia voz: desde su infancia y sus recorridos por pueblos y comunidades campesinas en la recopilación de la tradición oral del folclor nacional—su verdadera escuela—; sus opiniones sobre el amor, el arte, la familia, la música,...
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Retorno a la aldea reúne fragmentos de entrevistas realizadas a Jorge Teillier, que construyen y a la vez descortezan un bosque de palabras. Es una invitación al merodeo y a la cimarra, a escapar de los lugares comunes en torno a lo larico, pues en estos pasajes Teillier reflexiona críticamente sobre la identidad cultural de la poesía y el trasfondo político del progreso y las posturas ecologistas de moda. Los fragmentos componen el retrato de...
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"In a series of illuminating and entertaining conversations, twenty-one of today's most influential and revered designers discuss, celebrate, and analyze their craft. Adeptly interviewed by brand consultant and talk show host Debbie Millman, these designers reveal their early influences, day-to-day rituals, enthusiasms, aspirations, and failures. For pop-culture enthusiasts as well as long-time designers, students, and those just starting their careers,...
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Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one interviews that covered history, science, reincarnation, and Buddhism. Laird brings these meetings to life in rich, vibrant, and monumental work that outlines the essence of thousands of years of civilization, myth, and spirituality. Tibet's story is rich with tradition and filled with promise. It begins with the...
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Today more than ever, job candidates make initial contact with prospective employers via the telephone. Phone interviews are often the most unexpected facet of job interviewing, yet they are fast becoming the standard for employers when narrowing the pool of applicants and determining who will be invited for in-person interviews. The Essential Phone Interview Handbook covers:
• How to prepare, what to say, and when to say it
• How to establish...
19) Baja cultura
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Entre 2005 y 2010 el blog Las opiniones del Rufián Melancólico se ganó un espacio en las discusiones literarias y críticas del momento. Con más de 300 entradas en un estilo que iba de lo vulgar a lo sofisticado, el blog le dio la posibilidad a A.J. Soifer
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A los 14 años, con la lectura de Análisis profano de Freud, se produce un quiebre en la vida de María Esther Gilio: "Después de haber pasado mi primera infancia diciendo 'quiero ser médica de locos', después de ver un film de Claudette Colbert en que ésta, con todo su encanto francés, convertía a locos furiosos en santos de estampita, quise ser psicoanalista".
Este es el testimonio de alguien que sospecha que hablar de uno mismo en el pasado...
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