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Book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh  1895  1902  Fine Arts  Literature  Fiction  History and travel  part I

Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 Fine Arts Literature Fiction History and travel part I written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book So Real It Hurts

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  • Author : Lydia Lunch
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2019-07-09
  • ISBN : 1609809432
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book So Real It Hurts written by Lydia Lunch and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So Real It Hurts is the perfect title for this collection. It's a mission statement. A few bleeding slices straight from the butcher shop. A sampler from an enormous archive of work that will, no doubt, be pored over by grad students, book lovers, film historians, music nerds and straight-up perverts a hundred years from now." —Anthony Bourdain, from the Introduction Through personal essays and interviews, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection. Oscillating between provocative celebrations of her own defiant nature and nearly-tender ruminations on the debilitating effects of poverty, abuse, and environmental pollution, along with a visceral revenge fantasy against misogynistic men, Lydia Lunch presents her exploits without apology, daring the reader to judge her while she details the traumas and trials that have shaped her into the legendary figure she's become. Inserted between these biting personal essays, Lunch thoughtful cultural insights convey a widely-shared desire to forestall inevitable cultural amnesia and solidify a legacy for her predecessors and peers. Her interview with Hubert Selby Jr. and profile of Herbert Hunke, her short unromanticized histories of No Wave and of the late Sixties, and her scathing examination of the monetization of counterculture (thanks, Vivienne Westwood!) all serve to reinforce the notion that, while it may appear that there are no more heroes, we are actually just looking for heroes in the wrong places. The worthy idols of the past have been obscured by more profitable historical narratives, but Lunch challenges us to dig deeper. So Real It Hurts pulls the reader into a world that is entirely hers — one in which she exacts vengeance against predators with an enviable ease and exerts an almost-sexual dominance over authority, never permitting those with power to hold on to it too tightly.

Book Classified Catalogue

Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh  1895 1902  In Three Volumes

Download or read book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 In Three Volumes written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Knife That Killed Me

Download or read book The Knife That Killed Me written by Anthony Mcgowan and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Vanderman could be at any normal high school where bullies, girls, and annoying teachers are just part of life. But “normal” doesn’t apply when it comes to the school’s biggest bully, Roth—a twisted and threatening thug with an evil agenda. When Paul ends up delivering a message from Roth to the leader of a gang at a nearby school, it fuels a rivalry with immediate consequences. Paul attempts to distance himself from the feud, but somehow Roth keeps finding reasons for him to stick around. Then one day Roth hands him a knife. And even though Paul is scared, he has never felt so powerful.

Book The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh  1895 1902  In Three Volumes

Download or read book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 In Three Volumes written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perv

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  • Author : Jerry Stahl
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-09-25
  • ISBN : 0061956759
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Perv written by Jerry Stahl and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1970, in the last, dark days of hippiedom, Perv -- A Love Story is the saga of Bobby Stark, a sixteen-year-old batch of desire and angst struggling to stay sane in a world gone Day-Glo. As the novel opens, Bobby loses his virginity in a drug-addled tryst with a one-armed barber's daughter. For his sins he's thrown out of school and dispatched to live with his mom, a festive electro shock aficionado, whose condo he flees to track down Michelle, the gorgeously damaged, lasped Hare Krishna-ette he's adored since kindergarten. Like the rest of their generation, the couple hit the road for California, only to be picked up in a hell-fueled Lincoln by a pair of Bad Hippies -- Meat and Varnish -- smacked-out spiritual cousins to Charles Manson. From here the trip gets vicious.... Already an underground classic, Perv-A Love Story is relentlessly twisted, sexy, and savagely funny literary excursion, a novel of doomed youth in the era when Flower Power had begun to wilt.

Book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kicking a Dead Horse

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  • Author : Sam Shepard
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-04-20
  • ISBN : 0307793737
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Kicking a Dead Horse written by Sam Shepard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His horse has choked to death, he's miles away from civilization, and there's not a person around to talk to – other than himself. As Hobart examines his rise — how he built a vast art collection while ensconced in a comfortable Park Avenue lifestyle — he digs deep into his own history, unearthing truths about his past while still struggling to find the answers he needs. With Shepard's linguistic flair, subtle humor, and probing insights, Kicking a Dead Horse is an invigorating addition to the works of one of America's most innovative playwrights.

Book    Since at least Plato        and Other Postmodernist Myths

Download or read book Since at least Plato and Other Postmodernist Myths written by M. Devaney and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-08-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts ranging from the law of noncontradiction to relativity and the Uncertainty Principle to be as ill-informed as they are pervasive. Devaney shows how the use to which these accounts have been put in constructing the story of the progression from realism to postmodernism to modernism flattens out both the history of ideas and the history of literature.

Book Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues

Download or read book Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues written by Loren Rhoads and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual tales -- all true -- submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Loren Rhoads, creator and editor of the magazine, has compiled some of her favorite stories from all ten issues in this sometimes shocking, occasionally gruesome, always fascinating anthology. This quirky book is filled with tales from ordinary people -- who just happen to have eccentric, peculiar interests. Ranging from the outrageous (attending a Black Mass, fishing bodies out of San Francisco Bay, making fake snuff films) to the more "mundane" (visiting a torture museum, tracking real vampires through San Francisco), this curiously enjoyable collection of stories, complete with illustrations and informative asides, will entertain and haunt readers long after the final page is turned.

Book Paradoxia Epidemica

Download or read book Paradoxia Epidemica written by Rosalie Littell Colie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the universe, God, nature, and man himself. The book consists of an introduction (historical and topological) and sixteen chapters grouped according to broad types of paradox: rhetorical, theological, ontological, epistemological. Within this framework the author interprets individual writings or art forms as parts of a rich tradition. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza

Download or read book The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza written by Eugene Ostashevsky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinozais a cycle of fast, tragic, unsettling, hilarious poems about the shortcomings of reason. Eugene Ostashevsky's book responds to The Ethics of the seventeenth-century philosopher B. Spinoza, a work that seeks to construct an axiomatic system that is a theory of everything in a natural form of language with all its inconsistencies and ambivalence. '1.' Dear Owl you have big eyes feathers that stick in all different directions you wake up your panties are funny You hear the sounds words make as they plead for life that's all that remains of the language of language Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of Iterature(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) and eight chapbooks. He is also the editor and main translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism(Northwestern University Press, 2006). A recipient of fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ostashevsky teaches at New York University.

Book Essays and Reviews

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Williams
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-19
  • ISBN : 1400848393
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Essays and Reviews written by Bernard Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of popular reviews and essays from distinguished philosopher Bernard Williams Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews. Williams writes about a broad range of subjects, from philosophy to science, the humanities, economics, feminism, and pornography. Included are reviews of major books such as John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, Richard Rorty’s Consequences of Pragmatism, and Martha Nussbaum’s Therapy of Desire. But many of these essays extend beyond philosophy, providing an intellectual tour through the past half century, from C. S. Lewis to Noam Chomsky. No matter the subject, readers see a first-class mind grappling with landmark books in "real time," before critical consensus had formed and ossified.