Following in the footsteps of LEARNING HOW TO DIE, Greg Kot's wonderful overview of the enigmatic Midwest band Wilco, whose checkered music business career was the subject of the 2002 movie-length documentary I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART, the band members themselves chime in with their own contribution to the expanding library of Wilco-oriented ...
Nixon and 'Nam, pet rocks and shag rugs, wife- swapping and party-hopping. Suburban New England, 1973, and the Hood family are about to wish they'd stayed home. Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, THE ICE STORM is an astonishing novel of the decade that taste forgot. 1973 - 'The last year of the sixties' as the author describes it. Amidst the ...
Crewdson's most recent series of photographs, Twilight, are created as elaborately constructed film stills, catching the mysterious moment of time between before and after, revealing unknowable or unimaginable aspects of domestic reality. A cow lies on its back on the lawn between two houses while firemen secure the area and a man searches the sky ...
This volume of stories about slackers, madmen, movie people, grad students, and just plain eccentrics includes two long stories: "The Mansion on the Hill," about an employee at an elaborate wedding venue, and "The Carnival Tradition," a two-part tale set in New Jersey about a bulimic dancer and her gallery-owning boyfriend. A New York Times ...
Rick Moody uses a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil," which he suspects is based on an ancestor of his, as the backbone for his memoir. Moody writes about the ways in which his ancestors have influenced him (not for the better!), about his research into the family's past, and about his own early years of drifting and ...
"The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven," a novella by Rick Moody, is the first novella to be published in its entirety by the "Paris Review" since "Goodbye Columbus" in 1958. This piece won the Aga Khan Prize for best fiction in the "Paris Review" in 1994; the other stories in this collection have appeared previously in "The New Yorker," ...
In this landmark collection of original essays, a group of 22 prominent young writers explores what Christianity means for them--and for us--in today's world. Contributors include Barry Hannah, Madison Smartt Bell, Benjamin Cheever, bell hooks, Ann Padgett, and Kim Wozencraft. Excerpt in "Esquire" Magazine. NPR feature.
Rick Moody uses a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil," which he suspects is based on an ancestor of his, as the backbone for his memoir. Moody writes about the ways in which his ancestors have influenced him (not for the better!), about his research into the family's past, and about his own early years of drifting and ...
-- Brimming with Elkin's comic brilliance and singular wordplay, The Magic Kingdom tells the story of Eddy Bale, who, determined to learn from the ghastly experience of his son's long, drawn-out death, decides to raise enough money to take seven terminally ill children to Disney World in order to give them a dream vacation before they die. -- ...
From the author of "The Ice Storm," who has been lauded as the gutsiest writer of his generation ("Atlanta Journal-Constitution"), comes three sublime novellas about yearning.
A collection of stories that tell of loneliness. They include "The Preliminary Notes", "The Apocalypse of Bob Paisner", and "Primary Sources". The title piece was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Best Fiction published in the "Paris Review" during 1994. The author has also written "The Ice Storm".
Reinvigorated and redesigned, "Granta" has a new editor and a new Web site. But it's not all change: we will still continue to publish the world's finest writers of fiction, memoir, and reportage, in an elegant and collectable paperback book. In "Granta 101," there is original work from Robert Macfarlane, reporting from a blitzed Beijing ahead of ...
After a break of eight years, Rick Moody, the author of THE ICE STORM, returns to fiction with THE DIVINERS, which examines the emptiness that lies at the heart of the oversized, overblown ambitions of the American entertainment industry. In December 2000, the election recount drags on, gripping the country with unrest. The future seems uncertain, ...
Collected here are interviews with the great Beat and Black Mountain writers from the pages of "The Paris Review". In this new compendium, the writers describe their art and lives, creating a unique and fascinating record of their inspirations.
This text details Honda of America's approach towards supplier management and purchasing. At Honda, competitive advantage comes from developing suppliers rather than merely identifying them. Their programme for supply-based excellence, dubbed BP/BQ (Best Partner, Best Profit, Best Productivity/Best Quality), features a combination of quality ...
Twelve years ago, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Arts for Transit commissioned Roy Lichtenstein to create a mural for the Times Square subway station at 42nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Fabricated by Lichtenstein in 1994, the mural was finally unveiled on September 5, 2002, a gift from the artist to all New Yorkers. Standing ...
It has been said that translators are the unacknowledged ambassadors of literature. With Rejoicing Revoicing, Conjunctions celebrates these masterful artists as the bearers of cultural riches that they are. In an unprecedented gathering of works-in-progress by many of America's most renowned translators and some of the field's younger stars, ...
Robert Pollard is the Dayton, Ohio singer-songwriter, who was the leader and creative force behind the legendary indie rock group Guided by Voices, one of the most influential bands of its generation (SPIN magazine recently named Pollard one of "The Top 50 Rock & Roll Front Men of All-Time"). After the dissolution of Guided by Voices in 2004, ...
Rick Moody's new collection digs deep into American society and reveals the loss of connection that lurks under the surface. Cast in many forms - domestic comedy, pseudofairy-tale, philosophical argument - these stories are linked by the themes of loss, pleasure and the difficulty of expressing love. And always they are characterised by a humour ...
A story of uncompromising sadness and beauty set in Haledon, New Jersey, one springtime at the end of the American Century. Haledon is a suburb in eclipse, and on the hills above it the kids are looking for something to do. Rick Moody delineates their lives, with love and precision.
"Powered by Honda" tells the story of what Honda does, and illustrates the BP process with stories, charts, photos, and other powerful methods that guarantee success. From the people on the floor who build the cars, to the suppliers who keep Honda lines running non-stop, and the managers who run the supply chains, you'll feel the Racing Spirit ...
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