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Author | : Mark Salzman |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307429849 |
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In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.
Author | : William Gedney |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2000-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780393048247 |
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A collection of photographs is complemented by notes and excerpts from the journals and correspondence of the late photographer
Author | : Amir D. Aczel |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006-10-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0767920341 |
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René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates have made our physical and intellectual conquest of physical space possible. But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, he kept a secret notebook, now lost, most of which was written in code. After Descartes’s death, Gottfried Leibniz, inventor of calculus and one of the greatest mathematicians in history, moved to Paris in search of this notebook—and eventually found it in the possession of Claude Clerselier, a friend of Descartes. Leibniz called on Clerselier and was allowed to copy only a couple of pages—which, though written in code, he amazingly deciphered there on the spot. Leibniz’s hastily scribbled notes are all we have today of Descartes’s notebook, which has disappeared. Why did Descartes keep a secret notebook, and what were its contents? The answers to these questions lead Amir Aczel and the reader on an exciting, swashbuckling journey, and offer a fascinating look at one of the great figures of Western culture.
Author | : Mark Salzman |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1987-10-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0394755111 |
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Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.
Author | : Mark Salzman |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2003-12-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400077753 |
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Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.
Author | : Doris Lessing |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2008-10-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061582484 |
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Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.
Author | : Lorri Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781945334016 |
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A collection from the works of Lorri Jackson
Author | : Albert Camus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Notebooks: 1942-1951. Translated from the French and annotated by J. O'Brien Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mark Salzman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Creative writing |
ISBN | : 9780747571308 |
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Mark Salzman never thought he would be teaching writing at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for kids in LA, but their writing changed his mind. Underneath their bravado, his students were scared, and wrote about it. This is an account of these classes and of Salzman's own transformation.
Author | : Nick Hornby |
Publisher | : McSweeney's |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1944211152 |
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"How often do you begin reading a book that makes you—immediately, urgently, desperately—want to read more books?” (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade’s worth of books, as related in his wildly popular Believer column “Stuff I’ve Been Reading.” Ten Years in the Tub is a one-way ticket into the mind of one of the most beloved contemporary writers on his favorite pastime, but it's also a meditation on what Celine Dion can teach us about ourselves, a warning about how John Updike can ruin our sex lives, and a recommendation for the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days. This "decade-long addiction for many... makes standing in line at the bank a blessed interval for snorting another page.” (the New York Times Book Review)