Anatomy Of Melancholy The Best Of A Softer World

Author : Joey Comeau
Publisher : Breadpig
ISBN 13 : 9780982853764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Melancholy: the Best of a Softer World written by Joey Comeau and published by Breadpig. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best of A Softer World. Over 200 comics from the critically acclaimed series, including many that have never been printed before. Today is a good day to just start over. Be wary of saving too much money, because disaster could strike at any time, and I'm pretty sure heaven is just you sitting there wishing you'd bought an Xbox because it turns out you can take it with you but there's nothing to buy in the great beyond. Be on the lookout for new love! Everyone has kisses. Who is going to slip one into your pocket when you aren't looking? Your lucky numbers this week are: 1,2,3 all the way up to infinity, I am just saying. Good times are on the way. Open your mouth! Get Ready! A Softer World started in 2003, and ended in 2015, and will live forever in this book, and on asofterworld.com

Author : Janet Malcolm
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709726
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty-one False Starts written by Janet Malcolm and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction—as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of the painter David Salle, which becomes a dazzling portrait of an artist. Malcolm is "among the most intellectually provocative of authors," writes David Lehman in The Boston Globe, "able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight." Here, in Forty-one False Starts, Malcolm brings together essays published over the course of several decades (largely in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books) that reflect her preoccupation with artists and their work. Her subjects are painters, photographers, writers, and critics. She explores Bloomsbury's obsessive desire to create things visual and literary; the "passionate collaborations" behind Edward Weston's nudes; and the character of the German art photographer Thomas Struth, who is "haunted by the Nazi past," yet whose photographs have "a lightness of spirit." In "The Woman Who Hated Women," Malcolm delves beneath the "onyx surface" of Edith Wharton's fiction, while in "Advanced Placement" she relishes the black comedy of the Gossip Girl novels of Cecily von Zeigesar. In "Salinger's Cigarettes," Malcolm writes that "the pettiness, vulgarity, banality, and vanity that few of us are free of, and thus can tolerate in others, are like ragweed for Salinger's helplessly uncontaminated heroes and heroines." "Over and over," as Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, "she has demonstrated that nonfiction—a book of reporting, an article in a magazine, something we see every day—can rise to the highest level of literature." One of Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013

Author : Helen DeWitt
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219526
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lightning Rods written by Helen DeWitt and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited second novel by the author of “arguably the most exciting debut novel of the decade: The Last Samurai.” (Sam Anderson, New York). “All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds an outlet for his frustrations in a series of ingenious sexual fantasies, and at last strikes gold. His brainstorm, Lightning Rods, Inc., will take Joe to the very top — and to the very heart of corporate insanity — with an outrageous solution to the spectre of sexual harassment in the modern office. An uproarious, hard-boiled modern fable of corporate life, sex, and race in America, Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods brims with the satiric energy of Nathanael West and the philosophic import of an Aristophanic comedy of ideas. Her wild yarn is second cousin to the spirit of Mel Brooks and the hilarious reality-blurring of Being John Malkovich. Dewitt continues to take the novel into new realms of storytelling — as the timeliness of Lightning Rods crosses over into timelessness.

Author : Joey Comeau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982486221
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Best Isn't So Bad written by Joey Comeau and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you might guess, this is a book full of the A Softer World comics. It is 244 pages, all-colour. For extras, there are a bunch of the original, super-crappy photocopied ASWs that Joey & Emily made at the all-night Kinkos in 2002 -- with commentary! That section's called Pretty Good for a First Try, you should get it just for that.Contains all the alt-texts from the site!

Author : Carole Angier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526634783
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speak, Silence written by Carole Angier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile. The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald's birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness, saving humour, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arrowsmith written by Sinclair Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Farquhar Tupper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proverbial Philosophy written by Martin Farquhar Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936561919
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth and Beauty Bombs written by Emily Horne and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted one of the Best Webcomics of 2005, A Softer World makes it's print debut in this 192 page colour, glossy book that features the best comics from the first three years (2003 - 2006) plus 20 new, never before published cartoons.

Author : Colin McAdam
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616953160
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Truth written by Colin McAdam and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees “packs a huge emotional punch” (The Gazette, Montreal). Looee is a chimp raised by a well-meaning and compassionate human couple who cannot conceive a baby of their own. He is forever set apart—not human, but certainly not like other chimps. Then one night, after years at the family’s Vermont home, all their lives are changed forever. At the Girdish Institute, a group of chimpanzees has been studied for decades. There is proof that chimps have memories and solve problems, that they can learn language and need friends. They are political and altruistic. They get angry, and forgive. Mr. Ghoul has been there from the beginning, and has grown up in a world of rivals, sex, and unpredictable loss. Looee and Mr. Ghoul travel distant but parallel paths through childhood, adolescence, and early middle age. But ultimately their paths will cross at this Florida primate research facility, in this “strangely captivating [and] deeply moving” novel about the truths that transcend species, and the capacity for survival (Booklist).

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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