6/30/2023 0 Comments The Bequeathal by Zoran Jevtić![]() In this fast-paced SF novel, he combines fresh philosophical notions with original concepts of digitised afterlife and reconstructed psyche to bring us to a brand-new evolutionary stage. Brook Trout and the Writing LifeCraig Nova, The Bequeathal: GodsentZoran Jevtic, Fortress EnglandRobert Jackson, Utah Journeyman Plumber Theory License. Now, in GODSENT, a contributor to several books from the same series, and co-author of Introducing Baudrillard, who has also had rare personal access to the great cultural theorist, has taken simulacra to reality. One of those was by Jean Baudrillard and another from the internationally acclaimed ries. And that's when his life really begins.Prior to the filming of a blockbuster trilogy, its world-famous lead actor said he was required to read three books before he even saw the script. This results in expensive and fatal biological damage and, although accidental, his indecipherable crime earns him the attentions of the anti-terror agency, subjection to unimaginable torture, and untimely physical death. ![]() ![]() The tedium of Eugene's drudge is forever broken during one of his habitual visits to Soho and a too-good-to-pass offer of beta-testing a personal entertainment clone. If anything, his stats tag him average, though a notch more disillusioned and a degree less spirited than the next, permanently connected individual but his surplus dose of ironic self-derision makes him slightly discrepant. The Bequeathal: GODSENT In a post-crash, rebooted world, Eugene Reece is one of the billions of pre-indebted citizens whose lives are augmented by the virtualized intellects of the deceased. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even the just-published Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods … and Won!, ghosted by veteran sportswriter Sally Jenkins and reportedly auctioned for a million dollars, focuses more on the personalities-the upstate yahoos who lucked into ownership of America’s favorite nutless New Yorker-than on the pony. In them, racing isn’t itself of intrinsic interest but becomes a vehicle for exploring oneself. The racing books flooding the market today are by contrast more self-consciously literary and offer a return to the memoir fever of a few years back. ![]() They added to a genre that had its own rules yet was addressing an adult nonfiction reader, and they genuflected before the greats of the past, from Red Smith to Joe Palmer. ![]() Classics of the turf writer’s bookshelf-William Nack’s Big Red of Meadow Stable: Secretariat, the Making of a Champion (1975), William Surface’s masterful The Track: A Day in the Life of Belmont Park (1976), Jane Schwartz’s Ruffian: Burning From the Start (1991)-were penned with a keen knowledge of the long pedigree of the sport and its scribes. ![]() These books and others that have appeared since Seabiscuit stormed the best-sellers list differ markedly from the occasional gem of racing literature that readers might have encountered back when Secretariat was still the king. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The True Believer by Eric Hoffer![]() ![]() Sloan Foundation, wrote a second book ( Hoffer’s America, 1973). Tomkins told me that when he interviewed Hoffer, “the things he said about his early life did sound quite shadowy, but he was a great talker and he made it all seem authentic.” James D. The first, by Calvin Tomkins, was based on a New Yorker profile in 1967. Three books about Hoffer were published in his lifetime. I said that if you don’t know much about the first 35 years of a man’s life, “biography” may be a misnomer. Once he asked me if I was writing a biography of Hoffer. Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at Hoover, was interested in Hoffer and compiled an index to his books. ![]() He and Hoffer worked together as longshoremen and Hoffer called him a “true believer.” He was in the room with Hoffer when he died. Also featured is Lili’s husband, Selden Osborne. ![]() He was associated with Hoffer over a 15-year period. Another close friend was Stacy Cole, a professor at a community college in Fremont. I also interviewed some of the few who knew him well, including Lili Osborne and her son Eric. It includes photographs and some unpublished writing by Hoffer.Įarlier, I interviewed Hoffer himself both shortly before Ronald Reagan’s election and then a few months later. In summer visits to Hoover, I went through those papers and now my book, Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher is out ( published by the Hoover Institution Press). ![]() Hoffer never married but about a decade ago his long-time lady friend, Lili Osborne, made his papers available to researchers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Maud martha by gwendolyn brooks![]() ![]() 'Maud Martha reveals the poetry, power and splendor of an ordinary life. 'The quotidian rises to an exquisite portraiture of black womanhood in the hands of one of America's most foundational writers.' Claudia Rankine ![]() I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. Ammira i denti di leone, impara a bere il caffe, si innamora, arreda il suo angolo cottura, sventra un pollo, risparmia un topo, compra cappelli, cerca di. ![]() Tra bettole fatiscenti e cortili incolti, sogna New York, un amore romantico, il futuro. Written in 1953 but never published in Britain, Maud Martha is a poetic collage of happenings that forms an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom, humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy. Maud Martha Brown e una ragazzina cresciuta nel South Side della Chicago degli anni Quaranta. And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman that visit to the cinema the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. ![]() Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. What, what, am I to do with all of this life? The stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize, introduced by Margo Jefferson. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Body grammar jules ohman![]() ![]() It’s a whirlwind of learning how to walk and how to command a body she’s never felt at ease in. Determined to find a purpose, Lou moves to New York and steps into the dizzying world of international fashion shows, haute couture, and editorial shoots. She prefers to take photographs, especially of Ivy, her close friend and secret crush.īut when a hike ends in a tragic accident, Lou finds herself lost and ridden with guilt. ![]() Lou has no interest in fashion or being in the spotlight. roiling with deep questions of identity and art, love, and the irrepressible need for meaning in life" (Jess Walter, bestselling author of The Cold Millions)īy the time Lou turns eighteen, modeling agents across Portland have scouted her for her striking androgynous look. A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling-a "terrific debut. ![]() |