Constant Reader

Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781961341265

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Constant Reader by Dorothy Parker Pdf

“Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are.” —Fran Lebowitz When Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, in 1927, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rubric “Constant Reader,” she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written. Parker’s hot takes have lost none of their heat, whether she’s taking aim at the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson (“She can go on like that for hours. Can, hell—does”), praising Hemingway’s latest collection (“He discards detail with magnificent lavishness”), or dissenting from the Tao of Pooh (“And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up”). Here, for the first time in one volume, is the complete set of weekly reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, in all their variety, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post.

Author : James Cropper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590272990

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Letters [by J. Cropper, Vindex, and A constant reader] on the means of abolishing slavery in the West Indies. With remarks on mr. M'Donnell's pamphlet entitled Compulsory manumission by James Cropper Pdf

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1627152946

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The Bachman Books by Stephen King Pdf

Author : Karl Berglund
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350358379

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Reading Audio Readers by Karl Berglund Pdf

The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: when it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it? Tracking hundreds of thousands of readers on the level per user and hour, Reading Audio Readers combines computational methods from cultural analytics with theoretical perspectives from book history, publishing studies, and media studies. In doing so, it provides new insights into reading practices in digital platforms, the effects of the audiobook boom, and the business-models for book publishing and distribution in the age of streamed audio.

Author : Patrick deWitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526601193

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French Exit by Patrick deWitt Pdf

Frances Price is in dire straits. Scandais swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help. Cutting their Tosses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and head for the exit. Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self- destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters. Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.

Author : Sophie Hannah
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062388346

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Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah Pdf

LIANE MORIARTY says that “No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah.” Packed with twists and clues, simmering with tension, this electrifying new thriller shows why. She's the most famous murder victim in America. What if she's not dead? Pushed to the breaking point, Cara Burrows flees her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can't afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied — by a man and a teenage girl. A simple mistake at the front desk... but soon Cara realizes that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is someone she can't possibly have seen: the most famous murder victim in the country, Melody Chapa, whose parents are serving natural life sentences for her murder. Cara doesn't know what to trust — everything she's read and heard about the case, or the evidence of her own eyes. Did she really see Melody? And is she prepared to ask herself that question and answer it honestly if it means risking her own life?

Author : Lene Andersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Rheumatoid arthritis
ISBN : 099185862X

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Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Lene Andersen Pdf

The ultimate guide to living well with this chronic, at times debilitating, autoimmune disease. Lene Andersen has 40+ years of living with RA and is working as Community Leader for HealthCentral.com's RA site. She has amassed an almost encyclopedic knowledge of how to manage the many challenges of life with the disease. Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis covers medication and treatment options, questions of opioids and addiction, down-to-earth tips to manage side effects, and techniques to control the pain that is often part and parcel of RA. This is an informative, honest and often very funny book. It offers hope, comfort and help to empower both the newly diagnosed and those who have had the disease for years.--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Mike Veseth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442257375

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Around the World in Eighty Wines by Mike Veseth Pdf

Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world’s leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya’s most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really! The route loops around, visiting Bali, Thailand, and India before heading north to China to visit Shangri-La. Shangri-La? Does that even exist? It does, and there is wine there. Then it is off to Australia, with a detour in Tasmania, which is so cool that it is hot. The stars of the Southern Cross (and the title of a familiar song) guide us to New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. We ride a wine train in California and rendezvous with Planet Riesling in Seattle before getting into fast cars for a race across North America, collecting more wine as we go. Pause for lunch in Virginia to honor Thomas Jefferson, then it’s time to jet back to London to tally our wines and see what we have learned. Why these particular places? What are the eighty wines and what do they reveal? And what is the surprise plot twist that guarantees a happy ending for every wine lover? Come with us on a journey of discovery that will inspire, inform, and entertain anyone who loves travel, adventure, or wine.

Author : Jennifer Down
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774405

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Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down Pdf

Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman’s turbulent life

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1429923946

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The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts Pdf

"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it." --The Washington Post In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, Birkerts examines how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life. What does it mean to "hear" a book on audiotape, decipher its words on a screen, or interact with it on CD-ROM? Are books as we know them dead? At once a celebration of the complex pleasures of reading and a boldly original challenge to the new information technologies, The Gutenberg Elegies is an essential volume for anyone who cares about the past and future of books. "[A] wise and humane book....He is telling us, in short, nothing less than what reading means and why it matters." --The Boston Sunday Globe "Warmly elegiac...A candid and engaging autobiographical account sketches his own almost obsessive trajectory through avid childhood reading....This profoundly reflexive process is skillfully described." --The New York Times Book Review "Provocative...Compelling...Powerfully conveys why reading matters, why it is both a delight and a necessity." --The Harvard Review

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : New Internationalist
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906523138

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One World by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf

A collection of twenty-three short stories from around the world includes contributions by such authors as Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, India's Lucinda Nelson Dhavan, and Botswana's Lauri Kubuitsile.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101622773

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The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:72109220

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Constant Reader by Dorothy Parker Pdf

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250907738

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The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Pdf

From one of England’s most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England’s best-loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader’s life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081732822

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The lanack of the Month a New Everything and Everybody by Anonim Pdf