Have you ever wished you could run away and leave your life behind? Born on the "Day of the Wanderer," Lisa Dailey has always been filled with wanderlust. Although she and her husband had planned to take their family on a 'round-the-world adventure, she didn't expect their plans to come together on the heels of
The history of this tiny square in St James, which used to house the Texas embassy.
Famed female pilot, Amelia Earheart was caught on camera saying goodbye to her husband, George P. Putnam in Miami on June 1, 1937.
White Sails and Spindrift by Captain Frank H. Shaw, 1947. A memoir of a youth spend apprenticing on old square-rigger merchant ships. Clipper ship tales by a clipper ship captain. Measures: 8 1/2" x 6" Hardcover, no dustcover Published by Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd (1940s) 128 pages Marks on cover, pages secure, but yellowed and foxed. There are some water damage marks, which don't detract from the printed pages. Please study images as these form part of the description. We combine postage, where possible and always refund any shipping overages paid by buyers (less packaging) if costs turn out to be less than estimated.
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East Side and brings it to life, filling these pages with vivid memories of her avant-garde queer friends and dramatically recreating the early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a political insider. Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis, Schulman details her experience as a witness to the loss of a generation's imagination and the consequences of that loss. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520280069 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 09-02-2013 Pages: 192 Product Dimensions: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.50dAbout the Author Sarah Schulman is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA. She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, journalist, and active participant citizen.
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Including Down and Out in Paris and London'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorThe powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed, in which he exposes what 'going to the dogs' is really like. There are also articles and letters on sleeping rough in Trafalgar Square, being arrested for drunkenness, on the poverty Orwell witnessed in Morocco and India, and his shocking essay, 'How the Poor Die'. Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Peter Clarke.
Author pens book recalling the neighborhood of his childhood
The two images of this instrument I've have posted here have been cause for a small whirlwind of mystery and well-intentioned misnomer -- partly due to to the images having had a critical part of the instrument not showing. In picture #2, posted later, I inadvertently cropped out a necessary part of the image that was important. An informative letter from the world's leading expert on these things, Randy Raine-Reusch, has finally and correctly identified the object in view, and caused me to re-post image #2 in a more exacting crop -- showing the TWO tuning pegs on the right side of the photograph. (Picture #1 above does not show them at all). Here is a part of Randy's letter, and some links he gave for those who would like to know more about this unusual instrument, and the activities Randy is involved with concerning this and other musical rarities. ".........A very nice picture, as well as the one beside it on your site. These are not ichigenkin, although to the untrained eye they would appear so. In fact it is the exact same instrument in both photos. It is a yakumogoto, a two string zither, associated with theOomoto Shinto sect, and an instrument not to be played casually as seen in these photos. There was a controversy about this instrument being played by a person named Tosha Rosen [1828-1899. Real name: Kametaro Kato] for popular songs, and he was excommunicated from Oomoto and thus redesigned the yakumogoto to become the nigenkin in its present form. However, the pictures you have are clearly a yakumogoto. These instruments are still quite popular in all the Oomoto shrines and especially in Tokyo and Osaka.......". For more pictures and interesting information, please see Randy's page dedicated to this at : www.asza.com/inigen.shtml and also the SIXTH PICTURE DOWN on this site : www.oomoto.or.jp/English/enVisitor/enBill25.html where you will see the same instrument being played today -- even down to the two tassels hanging in the front. Thanks again, Randy.
How Mark Colvin discovered his father was a spy.
Tragedy of the Commons invites readers into a fresh exploration of the book of 1 Samuel, which tells the story of Saul, Israel's first monarch and the personification of its chronic sins. Stulac's unique voice combines sensitive exegesis with probing meditations on culture, art, literature, memoir, and Christian spirituality. He cuts deftly through the moralistic reductions of Old Testament stories for which the church too often settles, and in doing so, reveals the life-giving rhetoric of a biblical book aimed squarely at the reader's transformation of mind and heart. "Israel's common tragedy," writes Stulac, "will be solved through a lengthening and a deepening of the tragedy itself. Finding his people up to their eyeballs in sewage, God dives into the polluted abyss, swims to the bottom, and unplugs the pipe below their flailing feet." From Hannah's miracle baby to Saul's suicide, Tragedy helps readers to recognize both their own predilection for idols as well as the surprising ways that 1 Samuel anticipates the gospel of Jesus Christ. "King Saul serves not as a finger-wagging argument for God's disengagement from his people's fate," Stulac claims, "but as the shocking conduit of God's incarnational involvement in their corporate mess." Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781666781250 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Cascade Books Publication Date: 11-27-2023 Pages: 158 Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d
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Min Jin Lee's second novel follows four generations of a family who migrate from Korea to Japan.
Memoirs of the Last Sicilian: A One Man Play has one more weekend of performances at Theatre82’s black box space on Rolfe Square and not for nuthin’ — you would […]
Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it.--Times Literary SupplementHow would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family, and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England, and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences. A profoundly moving, comic, and original account by a stunning literary talent. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781908524478 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Wilmington Square Books Publication Date: 04-14-2015 Pages: 256 Product Dimensions: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90dAbout the Author Vesna Goldsworthy: Born in Belgrade in 1961, Vesna Goldsworthy left Yugoslavia in 1986 to marry a British diplomat. She has worked in Britain for the BBC, in publishing, and in academia. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Suburban Studies at Kingston University. Her first novel will be published internationally (in the US by Random House) in 2015.
Eddie Campbell is not himself. But these days, who is? It’s meta-fictional mystery and mischief as the award-winning artist of From Hell sets out to find his own imposter. Plus, on the flipside: a deluxe new presentation of The Fate of the Artist, Eddie Campbell’s classic work of graphic meta-memoir! SIDE A: The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell, by Eddie Campbell, is a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed graphic novel The Fate of the Artist, in which the author was missing from his own autobiography. Many years later, during an endless Covid lockdown in which everybody wears a mask and needs a haircut, Eddie’s wife is certain that he has been supplanted by an imposter. She hires a detective, the square-jawed Royler Boom, to solve the mystery. What follows — interspersed with Campbell’s trademark wry anecdotes, dreams, parodic pastiches, and pandemic peccadilloes — is a thrilling investigation that builds to a car chase and a violent conclusion. The author cunningly passes this off as another piece of autobiography. SIDE B: The Fate of the Artist: In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person… but now they’ve both gone missing. The Fate of the Artist is a complex weaving of different strains of invention including a mock prose detective story, an imaginary Sunday comic strip, a mock fumetti-style interview with the author's daughter, intertwined with Campbell's beloved brand of autobiographical comic storytelling. In this deluxe reissue of a groundbreaking book, the award-winning cartoonist of From Hell and Alec presents a complex, caustic, and fiendishly clever meditation on the lonely life of the artist and the busy life that swirls around him. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781603095242 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: IDW Publishing Publication Date: 07-11-2023 Pages: 192 Product Dimensions: 6.94(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.68(d)About the Author Eddie Campbell has been making a living from comics since the 1980s. He is best known as the artist of From Hell (with Alan Moore), and made a splash with Bacchus, whose monthly comic ran for 60 issues. His semi-autobiographical concoctions however form his favorite strain of his own work. The former material was gathered in Alec: The Years Have Pants, all except the full color book The Fate of the Artist and the all-new The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell.
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of POETRY magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
Faber & Faber: The Untold Story tells the history of the publisher in letters to and from its famous authors
After a string of great movies in the 1980s, one early 1990s movie had John Carpenter ready to say goodbye to Hollywood.
This is kind of amazing. Legendary street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died two years ago, leaving behind a massive body
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One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of their culture and their attitudes. This remarkable memoir captures both the dreams and the grim realities her Chinese students faced within the confines of an oppressive political regime. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780618035496 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: HarperOne Publication Date: 02-12-2003 Pages: 336 Product Dimensions: 8.52h x 5.55w x 0.86dAbout the Author Mahoney, Rosemary: - ROSEMARY MAHONEY is the author of Whoredom in Kimmage, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the New York Times Notable Book The Early Arrival of Dreams. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, she lives in Rhode Island.
THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.
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In 1984, Mother Teresa arrived in New Orleans to speak to a large crowd waiting in the Superdome. As Marie Bissell Constantin drove in from Baton Rouge to take her photograph, she had no idea that her encounter would mark the first of many, and that one day one of her images of Mother Teresa would be unveiled in front of over three hundred thousand people for her beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square. In her photographic memoir, Constantin leads others through her unique journey of exploring the possibility of becoming a nun herself as she traveled to capture Mother Teresa in rare, private moments. In addition to powerful black-and-white images of Mother Teresa, Constantin shares personal stories that shine a light on the selfless life of nuns, from other religious orders, who live and work among the most abandoned people in the world.
Including Down and Out in Paris and London'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorThe powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed, in which he exposes what 'going to the dogs' is really like. There are also articles and letters on sleeping rough in Trafalgar Square, being arrested for drunkenness, on the poverty Orwell witnessed in Morocco and India, and his shocking essay, 'How the Poor Die'. Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Peter Clarke.
Two of the most important Buddhist tracts from Japan A Penguin Classic Both of these works on life’s fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each represents a different worldview. In Essays in Idleness, his lively and sometimes ribald collection of anecdotes, advice, and observations, Kenko displays his fascination with earthly matters. In the short memoir Hojoki, or The Ten Foot Square Hut, however, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780141192109 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication Date: 07-29-2014 Pages: 224 Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d) Age Range: 18 Years Series: Penguin ClassicsAbout the Author KENKO (1238-?) was born in Kyoto. He became a monk probably in his late twenties, and was also noted as a calligrapher. Today he is remembered for his wise and witty aphorisms. CHOMEI (1155-1216) was born into a family of Shinto priests at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up. He became an important poet of his day, and at the age of fifty withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk. MEREDITH McKINNEY (translator / introducer) is a translator of Japanese literature, both contemporary and classical, and has translated The Pillow Book and Kokoro for Penguin Classics. She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently a visiting fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra.
