Is Buddhism too Asian, to exotic, too difficult a path to fit into turbo-charged, modern-day America? Dinty W. Moore's delightful attempts to come to grips with these questions and many others will fascinate anyone curious about the wisdom of other cultures and other religions.
This introduction to creative nonfiction examines the building blocks of nonfiction prose one by one, illustrating how individual voice and narrative strategies delineate this literary form from conventional nonfiction. Individual chapters are devoted to detail and description, characterization and scene, distinctive voice, intimate point-of-view, ...
"Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books - and, invariably, "hilarious." "Between Panic and Desire", named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its chapters, "A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, ...
This title surveys the 'cyberlandscape' and samples some of its goods, such as Usenet newsgroups and real-time conversation via Internet Relay Chat. It also offers discussions on public policy issues, and interviews with a diverse assortment of computer users. The author gets wired while on sabbatical and finds a community similar to the society ...
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