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J.C. Hallman
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The Story About the Story Vol. II
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1998
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Say Anarcha
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2023
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The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game
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2003
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The Devil Is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe
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2006
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The Hospital for Bad Poets
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2009
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In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise
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2010
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The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature
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2009
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B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
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2015
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Wm & H'ry: Literature, Love, and the Letters between William and Henry James
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2013
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ON THE PURSUIT OF HUMAN-LEVEL INTERESTINGNESS VALUE IN AI2-GENERATED LITERARY TEXTUAL EVENTS
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"Fabulous read. Honestly, when I first bought this @ The Regulator (best bookshop in Durham, plugging now so I can get an endorsement when I make it big on GR), I thought it was going to be the kind of book that just sat on the shelf until I guilted m"
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"“But why did he need her consent? Couldn’t he just tie her down and do as he wished? And did he really believe it would be a choice? Or did his eagerness suggest, just as with the slaves he’d tied down to impress white doctors, that what he truly sou"
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| Rebecca Kanner’s latest is a compelling thriller with a murder and a mystery, but as with her earlier work it’s also about a lot of other things: men, women, the instruction of creative writing, status anxiety, mental illness, addiction, and on and o ...more | |
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| This book is a delightfully improbable mash-up of a romantic comedy, a feminist treatise, and an illness/addiction narrative. Sara, a professor and groupie of Seth, her student-turned-rock star, is refreshingly carnal in her appetites, and despite al ...more | |
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| This is an extremely informative and notably sober-minded overview of the extant evidence, both scientific and anecdotal, of a promising new form of alternative medicine. As a medical historian, I’m well aware that modern medicine has often expressed ...more | |
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“After the curtain had fallen, a raucous display of malice had erupted from the gallery, and the ensuing scene, a quarter of an hour in which Hr'y's friends close to the stage attempted to applaud over the hoots and jeers of callous roughs in the shadows - a spectacle that culminated with the play's nervous director appearing on stage to quickly apologize for the production - is one of the better documented episodes in the many biographies of Hr'y's life. What's worth revisiting is the way he described it once he mustered the courage to put it all in a letter. The play had never really had a chance, he wrote. His 'extremely human' effort was met by a mob that responded with 'roars (like those of a cage of beasts at some infernal 'Zoo')”
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“It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove. Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.”
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
“Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.”
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
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“It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove. Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.”
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
“Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.”
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
“After the curtain had fallen, a raucous display of malice had erupted from the gallery, and the ensuing scene, a quarter of an hour in which Hr'y's friends close to the stage attempted to applaud over the hoots and jeers of callous roughs in the shadows - a spectacle that culminated with the play's nervous director appearing on stage to quickly apologize for the production - is one of the better documented episodes in the many biographies of Hr'y's life. What's worth revisiting is the way he described it once he mustered the courage to put it all in a letter. The play had never really had a chance, he wrote. His 'extremely human' effort was met by a mob that responded with 'roars (like those of a cage of beasts at some infernal 'Zoo')”
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“In the analysis of books, as in the analysis of complex world events, we hover between two kinds of error: ascribing too much meaning where there is little, if any, to be found, and ignoring meaning that stares us right in the face.”
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
“It's only in books--actual printed books--that you can easily start and stop your reading, that you can preread and reread, and, these days, as the book itself suffers from a cluster of plagues, it seems only right to pause and assert that the books that ought to be rescued these days are not the books that require a "spoiler alert"--such books are already spoiled--but books that aren't spoiled even if you know what's going to happen, even if you peek at the end, even if you're reading them for a second, or fifth, or dozenth time.”
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
― B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
