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- Attention : Writing on Life, Art, and the World. by Enright, Anne.;
'Attention' is a powerful essay collection that blends personal reflection with urgent political writing and cultural criticism. Spanning 30 years, these essays explore themes of women's voices and bodies in society, family dynamics, and the intersection of the personal and political.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General;
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- Screen People : How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency. by Garber, Megan.;
Whether its our reality-television-star President or our expertly curated Instagram feeds, the line between fact and fiction - between whats real and whats fabricated for entertainment - has never been more blurred. 'Screen People' explores how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment - and how we can fight back against this phenomenon.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century; HISTORY / Social History; LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM: Modern / 21st Century; LITERARY CRITICISM: Subjects & Themes / Politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture;
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- Poetry Says It Better : Poems to Help You Wake Up. by Burstyn, Ellen.;
From legendary Academy Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn comes a collection of Burstyn's favourite poems and reflections of what poetry means to her. 'Poetry Says It Better' is a perfect daily companion for everyone looking to deepen and add meaning to their life experience.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; POETRY / Ancient & Classical; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors); POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica;
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- Mantel pieces : Royal bodies and other writing from the London review of books / by Mantel, Hilary,1952-author.; Mantel, Hilary,1952-Essays.Selections.;
A collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir selected from three decades of the author's contributions to the London review of books. Subjects include Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia (where she lived for four years in the 1980s), the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, and Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive.- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Diaries.; Essays.; Literary criticism.; Reviews.; Mantel, Hilary, 1952-; English literature;
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- Traveling On the Path of Joni Mitchell [electronic resource] : by Powers, Ann.aut; cloudLibrary;
*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. “What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her own invention, and of me on her trail, heading toward the ringing of her voice.” —From the introduction For decades, Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians—from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile—and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as—with the other arm—she pushes us away. Given this, music critic Ann Powers wondered if there was another way to draw insights from the life of this singular musician who never stops moving, never stops experimenting. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer’s childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell’s musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell’s collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Along this journey, Powers’ wide-ranging musings on the artist’s life and career reconsider the biographer’s role and the way it twines against the reality of a fan. In doing so, Traveling illustrates the shifting nature of biography, and the ultimate contradiction of celebrity: that an icon cannot truly, completely be known to a fan. Kaleidoscopic in scope, and intimate in its detail, Traveling is a fresh and fascinating addition to the Joni Mitchell canon, written by a biographer in full command of her gifts who asks as much of herself as of her subject. - Subjects: Electronic books.; Women Authors; Composers & Musicians; 20th Century; Women; Folk & Traditional;
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- Dead and alive : essays / by Smith, Zadie,author.;
"A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays. In the past two decades, few writers have been able to master the craft and art of the essay in the way that Zadie Smith has. Her discerning eye and singularly intimate perspective emblazon Smith as a preeminent critic of our generation, society, and culture. In her inimitable honesty and poignant voice, Smith studies the fault lines that divide us and consistently finds within them grounds for solidarity and compassion. This eagerly awaited new collection brings Zadie Smith's unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years. Organized in five sections -- eyeballing, considering, reconsidering, mourning, and confessing -- she unspools personal dialogues with various sources of inspiration. She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola and Kara Walker. She invites us along to the movies in her review of Tár, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and to her desk when researching the Tichborne trial and writing her New York Times bestselling novel The Fraud. She asks us to look at the young Michael Jackson and to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Philip Roth, and Toni Morrison. And she shows us once again in Dead and Alive her unrivalled ability to think through critically and humanely some of the most urgent preoccupations and tendencies of our troubled times. A master of perception always in search of a lesser-known reality, Smith continually assesses, and reassesses, what it means to identify with the contemporary world, and how we choose to remember the history that brought us here"--- Subjects: Essays.;
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- Queen Esther : a novel / by Irving, John,1942-author.;
"From one of the world's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers comes a big-hearted and intricately crafted novel about purpose, belonging, and the lengths we will go to find ourselves. Thomas and Constance Winslow of Pennacook, New Hampshire are the quiet iconoclasts of their tidy New England town, their subtle rebellions against stodgy, churchgoing conformity the perennial subject of the townspeople's inconsequential murmuring. That is, until their adoption of a precocious fourteen-year-old Jewish girl from the quietly infamous orphanage in St. Cloud's to serve as an au pair to their youngest daughter, Honor, gives the townspeople of Pennacook something to talk about. ... Two decades later, amid the outbreak of the Second World War, the fiercely self-reliant Jewish au pair, Esther Natch, is in Europe fighting Nazis, but still devoted to Honor, and to a special arrangement between the two of them: Esther will be the surrogate biological mother of a child that Honor and the Winslow family will raise as their own. True to her word and better, in 1941 Esther gives birth to James "Jimmy" Winslow, who quickly becomes the apple of the Winslow family's eye. In 1963, Jimmy is twenty-two and determined to be a fiction writer. His studies take him to Vienna, where he spends an eventful year, during which his mother Honor is determined to secure him a draft deferment by any means--whether by physical injury or by "knocking someone up." In Vienna and the years that follow, the mysterious activities of Jimmy's Jewish birthmother Esther and her covert, globetrotting activities remain a poignant throughline in Jimmy's life, leading to a revelatory journey to conflict-torn Jerusalem in 1981. A triumphant return to the literary universe of John Irving's beloved, landmark novel The Cider House Rules, Queen Esther is a touching, timely, and propulsive masterwork from one of the most accomplished novelists of the last century."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Adoption; Adoptees; Authors; Family secrets; Families; Jewish women; Mothers and sons; Surrogate mothers;
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