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Mornings with Mailer

Author	: Dwayne Raymond
Publisher	: Harper Collins
Release Date	: 2010-01-26
ISBN 10	: 9780061966255
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (662 users)

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Download or read book Mornings with Mailer written by Dwayne Raymond and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mornings with Mailer is a tender and affectionate view of the protean author at the end of the Big Novel that was his life. Dwayne Raymond’s book offers a uniquely intimate perspective on one of our literary giants. Applause.” — Tom Piazza, author of City of Refuge “In this moving memoir, Dwayne Raymond provides an intimate look at the daily routine of a great writer in the last years of his life.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals Mornings with Mailer is the revealing memoir by Dwayne Raymond, the man who worked as Norman Mailer’s personal assistant during the last five years of the iconic author’s life. Recasting the legendary writer of such classics as The Naked and the Dead and The Executioner’s Song in a new light, Mornings with Mailer describes the powerful bond that formed between him and Raymond from April 2003 until Mailer’s death in November 2007.

The Armies of the Night

Author	: Norman Mailer
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2018-11-01
ISBN 10	: 9780241340486
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (44 users)

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Download or read book The Armies of the Night written by Norman Mailer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day's events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mould of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth. The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties' tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.

Playing with Reality

Author	: Sidney Homan
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2022-03-11
ISBN 10	: 9781000556445
Pages	: 246 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (564 users)

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Download or read book Playing with Reality written by Sidney Homan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how and why we deny, or manipulate, or convert, or enhance reality. Finding it important to come to terms with reality, with what is there before us, and, with reality however defined, to live responsibly, this collection takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to examining the idea that history, the truth, facts, and the events of the present time can be refashioned as prismatic, theatrical, something we can play with for agendas either noble or ignoble. An international team of contributors considers the issue of how and why, in dealing what is there before us, we play with reality by employing theatre, fiction, words, conspiracy theories, alternate realities, scenarios, and art itself. Chapters delve into issues of fake news, propaganda, virtual reality, theatre as real life, reality TV, and positive ways of refashioning and enhancing your own reality. Drawing on examples from film studies to sociology, from the social sciences to medicine, this volume will appeal to scholars and upper-level students in the areas of communication and media studies, comparative literature, film studies, economics, English, international affairs, journalism, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theatre.

Journal of the Senate

Author	: Illinois. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1888
ISBN 10	: UIUC:30112111454382
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (121 users)

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Unpunished

Author	: D.d.k.
Publisher	: AuthorHouse
Release Date	: 2012-11
ISBN 10	: 9781477280966
Pages	: 205 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (89 users)

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Download or read book Unpunished written by D.d.k. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpunished is a story about, love, abuse, sex, betrayal, deceit, mental illness, murder and the unknown. It's NOT a pretty story, however it is one woman's true story. Donna was on her way home from work one afternoon when she stopped to pick up her mail. She tore excitedly into a package that she assumed was from her mother; instead photographs from her past tumbled onto her lap. She is thrown into the memories of her past, memories that are unwanted and of deeds that went unpunished!!

Conversations with Friends

Author	: Sally Rooney
Publisher	: Faber & Faber
Release Date	: 2017-05-25
ISBN 10	: 9780571333141
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (331 users)

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Download or read book Conversations with Friends written by Sally Rooney and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS WILL BE ADAPTED FOR A BBC THREE DRAMA, PREMIERING IN MAY 2022! ***SALLY ROONEY'S NEW NOVEL, BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU, IS OUT NOW*** 'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.' - Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram) 'Fascinating, ferocious and shrewd.' - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies 'I really like Conversations with Friends. I like the tone [Rooney] takes when she's writing. I think it's like being inside someone's mind.' - Taylor Swift Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NORMAL PEOPLE, THE BOOK OF THE HIT TV SERIES, NOW AVAILABLE ON THE BBC

The Cinema of Norman Mailer

Author	: Justin Bozung
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2017-09-07
ISBN 10	: 9781501325526
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (255 users)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Norman Mailer written by Justin Bozung and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer also explores Mailer's cinema through previously published and newly commissioned essays written by an array of film and literary scholars, enthusiasts, and those with a personal, philosophical connection to Mailer. This volume discusses the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and filmmaker's six films created during the years of 1947 and 1987, and contends to show how Mailer's films can be best read as cinematic delineations that visually represent many of the writer's metaphysical and ontological concerns and ideas that appear in his texts from the 1950s until his passing in 2007. By re-examining Mailer's cinema through these new perspectives, one may be awarded not just a deeper understanding of Mailer's desire to make films, but also find a new, alternative vision of Mailer himself. Norman Mailer was not just a writer, but more: he was one of the most influential Postmodern artists of the twentieth century with deep roots in the cinema. He allowed the cinema to not only influence his aesthetic approach, but sanctioned it as his easiest-crafted analogy for exploring sociological imagination in his writing. Mailer once suggested, "Film is legitimately more interesting than books..." and with that in mind, readers of Norman Mailer might begin to rethink his oeuvre through the viewfinder of the film medium, as he was equally as passionate about working within cinema as he was about literature itself.

Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c)

Author	: Kenneth Starr
Publisher	: Government Printing Office
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 0160574803
Pages	: 211 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c) written by Kenneth Starr and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation into the relationship between President Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the possible impeachment of the President as a result of his conduct.

Anthology of American Literature: Realism to the present

Author	: George L. McMichael
Publisher	: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date	: 1989
ISBN 10	: 0023796227
Pages	: 2202 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (27 users)

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Download or read book Anthology of American Literature: Realism to the present written by George L. McMichael and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 2202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. Volume II begins with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and moves through Toni Morrison. It reflects a continued emphasis on cultural plurality, and multiple selections by authors that enables readers to compare and contrast different works. Numerous editions in their entirety include Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Crane's The Red Badge of Courage; William's The Glass Menagerie; Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; and Miller's Death of a Salesman. Also featured are shorter works--such as How to Tell a Story, by Mark Twain; Poems by Rita Dove; short stories by Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison. For modern scholars of America's literary history, and readers who simply love to read--especially the classics.

The Spooky Art

Author	: Norman Mailer
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2003-01-21
ISBN 10	: 9781588362865
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (628 users)

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Download or read book The Spooky Art written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-01-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.” In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about the writer’s craft. Praise for The Spooky Art “The Spooky Art shows Mailer’s brave willingness to take on demanding forms and daunting issues. . . . He has been a thoughtful and stylish witness to the best and worst of the American century.”—The Boston Globe “At his best—as artists should be judged—Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure. There is enough of his best in this book for it to be welcomed with gratitude.”—The Washington Post “[The Spooky Art] should nourish and inform—as well as entertain—almost any serious reader of the novel.”—Baltimore Sun “The richest book ever written about the writer’s subconscious.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Striking . . . entrancingly frank.”—Entertainment Weekly Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post

9/11. A Survivor’s Story.

Author	: Artie Van Why
Publisher	: Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date	: 2018-12-02
ISBN 10	: 9781483489797
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (897 users)

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Download or read book 9/11. A Survivor’s Story. written by Artie Van Why and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an upheaval, you must face what seems impossible: continuing your life. Artie Van Why found himself in that situation after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and he recalls his experiences as a survivor and witness of that day in this memoir. Van Why also looks back at what brought him to New York, including his struggle with his sexuality and spirituality. He shares these personal details because as you read about him standing in front of the burning towers, it’s important to understand the person he was on that day, what he’d been through, what he’d endured, and what he’d overcome. Finally, in what were originally Huffington Post blogs, Van Why shares what his life has been like since 9/11, including how he’s coped with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and all the other manifestations of grief, mourning, and sadness that can be applied to any life-altering experience.

Waltzing the Magpies

Author	: Sam Pickering
Publisher	: University of Michigan Press
Release Date	: 2004-03-02
ISBN 10	: 0472113771
Pages	: 302 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (71 users)

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Download or read book Waltzing the Magpies written by Sam Pickering and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Pickering chronicles his year-long family trip to Australia in this travelogue that chronicles his experiences, including snorkeling at Turquoise Bay and bird watching.

teh armies of the night

Author	: norman mailer
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1968
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

Author	: Frank Bruni
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2015-03-17
ISBN 10	: 9781455532698
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (326 users)

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Download or read book Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be written by Frank Bruni and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be, Frank Bruni explains why this mindset is wrong, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes. Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are students' efforts in and out of the classroom, not the name on their diploma. Where you go isn't who you'll be. Americans need to hear that--and this indispensable manifesto says it with eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher education.

Albert Hall

Author	: Lenore Coltheart
Publisher	: UNSW Press
Release Date	: 2014-12-01
ISBN 10	: 9781742247144
Pages	: 345 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (471 users)

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Download or read book Albert Hall written by Lenore Coltheart and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Sutherland’s debut, the notorious Petrov Commission, a rumoured ghost and rowdy public meetings give Canberra’s Albert Hall a history like no other. Albert Hall – the simple, elegant building at the heart of our national capital – was Canberra’s only performing arts centre for its first 40 years. The venue for weekly dances, art exhibitions, and tours by the Royal Ballet and the Australian Ballet, Albert Hall has also hosted citizenship ceremonies and important national occasions. This beautifully illustrated book shares the history of this Canberra landmark for the first time.

When We Were Perfect

Author	: Emily Duvall
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2013-04-01
ISBN 10	: 9781611603996
Pages	: 207 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (39 users)

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Download or read book When We Were Perfect written by Emily Duvall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooke Wentworth, the reserved, hard-working owner of a bakery, stumbled into her fairytale future—directly into the arms of Jonathan Burke, a handsome millionaire and heir to his family's chain of upscale hotels. On the night before their elopement, everything goes terribly wrong and Brooke never makes it to the airport. But shockingly, Jonathan doesn't come looking for her... Six years later, Brooke has rebuilt the pieces of her life and found happiness again, until Brooke and Jonathan's paths cross. Their untimely meeting unravels secrets and betrayals, including the daughter Brooke kept hidden from Jonathan. For revenge, Jonathan forces Brooke to make an impossible choice between her daughter and her beloved bakery. How can she ever be happy if she has to abandon what's most important in her life?

Maya's Aura - The Crystal Witch

Author	: Skye Smith
Publisher	: Skye Smith
Release Date	: 2019-04-15
ISBN 10	: 9780988131460
Pages	: 138 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (314 users)

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Download or read book Maya's Aura - The Crystal Witch written by Skye Smith and published by Skye Smith. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Flap This is the sixth novel in the “Maya’s Aura” series. This naughty novel of magic and mayhem begins with Maya hanging with some witchlets in an ancient pub near Cambridge, England. Through them she meets a formidable Wicca and together they set up what can only be described as a Wicca Ashram. Maya is on a quest for the source of the heirloom ring given to her by her great-grandmother, which leads her to archaeological digs, in which some very ancient crystal pendants have been found. When she sleeps with one these pendants around her neck, she has vivid dreams of the life of its original owner, a healer who lived a thousand years ago. So vivid, and so clear are the dreams that her companions begin to log them, and thru Maya have conversations with the memories of a peasant woman long since dead. What they find out threatens to turn an entire field of history upside down. About the Author Skye Smith is my pen name. My family convinced me not to use my real name because my stories are so critical of predator males. You'll understand and forgive me this as you fall in love with sweet Maya, my main character. For those of you who like stories about vampires, witches, and magic, you won’t be disappointed by my very different, more realistic take on it all. My vampires are parasites wearing business suits. My witches are healers ignored by the modern world. My magic is based on aura’s, and everyone has felt or seen an aura at least once in their lives. Other Novels By The Same Author: The Hoodsman – 12 historical adventures set in the Norman conquest. Knut – many historical adventures set in the Viking Era. The Pistoleer – 9 historical adventures set in the English Civil War. Maya’s Aura – 8 new age adventures while tripping around the world. 1. “The Awakening” - She discovers her strange aura. 2. “The Refining” - She learns how to use her aura. 3. “The Ashram” - She searches for answers in India 4. “Goa to Nepal” - She follows a quest into the Himalayas 5. “The Charred Coven” - She fights black craft in England. 6. “The Crystal Witch” - She learns psychic craft in England 7. “The Redemptioner” - Psychic dreams of her ancestor Britta. 8. “Destroy the Tea Party” - Britta’s adventures in Boston in 1773.