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'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' - William Faulkner
The Past is Never Dead is a trilogy of books by Mark Peterson examining the American political landscape…
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Q David Bowers
Jim Shooter, David Michelinie, Bill Mantlo
Artistic superstar Jim Valentino revitalizes the original Guardians of the Galaxy! As the Guardians of the Galaxy pursue a cosmic threat named Korvac from the 31st century back to the…
Michael Henderson, Melissa Mednicov, Rebecca Finley, Ronald E. Shields
As the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue overlooking Interstate 45, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. This book tells the story of…
David Shields
Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Q-Anon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current "crisis" in "nonfiction"-journalism-…
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David C Corbett
Flying his Harrier, Major Dar Fantin stares into the North Carolina night sky with skepticism. Stopping in mid-flight is impossible at thirty-eight thousand feet, but that's exactly what an orange…
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In this beautifully written book, part philosophical meditation and part physiological examination, Shields confronts his own mortality and that of his persistently optimistic, and seemingly age-defying father.
‘Nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn’t lie about this - which is what makes it essential.’ David Shields
Other People is something of a revelation: seventy-plus essays that form neither a miscellany nor a memoir but an intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness.
Can one person…
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Questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading.
An honest, brilliant look at one man’s marriage and the view it affords for examining relationships between men and women across our culture.
Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers - from Lucretius to Woody Allen, the author renders…
In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger,DavidShieldshas composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years.
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Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up the…
A psychological investigation of Trump, a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, a satirical compilation of the collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump, and above all…
Vidda Crochetta
When Petros, the leader of the disciples of Joshua, began a secret journey up the Jordan River, he is not certain who he will meet along the way. He does…
David Shields,Dave Hickey
War Is Beautiful is a photo essay and deconstruction of a major news organisation’s use of combat photography during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
One of the most respected voices in the sports writing field presents a collection of essays that use sports as the lens through which to view the American character.
David Shields,Caleb Powell
Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life; his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art…
David Shields,Ross McElwee
What does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? What’s gained? What’s lost? What lies inevitably get told? What deeper…
The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in US culture. This book explores how, in a predominantly…
What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers.
Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.
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Explores the material constitution of the West Indies, Carolina lowcountry, and Chesapeake Tidewater - three historically related regions that shared strong likenesses in culture, commerce, and political development in the…
David Brandon Shields
The relationship between President John F Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was a complex factor in the creation of Anglo-American foreign policies in the early 1960’s. This book offers…
David S. Shields
Seeking to recover the disappeared world of belle lettres , this book examines the various texts of 18th-century British America - conversations, letters, newpapers, and privately circulated manuscripts. It reconstructs…
This innovative look at previously neglected poetry in British America represents a major contribution to our understanding of early American culture. Spanning the period from the Glorious Revolution (1690) to…
A biographical reference book about two hundred of the most influential cooks and restaurateurs from 1790 to 1919 –Publisher.
Southern food is America’s quintessential cuisine. This book reveals how the true ingredients of southern cooking have been all but forgotten and how the lessons of its restoration and recultivation…
Professor David Shields (Bard College)
Originally published: Seattle, Wash.: TNI Books, 2001.
Rob Roy Kelly
Originally published: New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1969.
Edmond Schonberg,Professor David Shields
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Jeff Ragsdale,David Shields,Michael Logan
In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he’d…
Twenty-eight landmark essays from The Normal School magazine - the standard-bearer for creative nonfiction today. From a diverse list of authors, startling reflections on the exceptional and the everyday. An…
David L. Thompson
It's 1963, a year that had an impact on the cultural, political and religious beliefs of people locally, nationally and internationally. As the minutes tick into the early hours of…
David Rodman
The Israel Air Force (IAF) has accumulated as much battle experience as any air force in the world during the post-Second World War era, and it has recorded many outstanding…
David Gemmell
The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into…
The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields’ extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics.
The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria…
Kevin Mitchell,David S. Shields
From the influence of 1920s fashion on asparagus growers to an heirloom watermelon lost and found, Taste the State abounds with surprising stories from South Carolina’s singularly rich food tradition.
