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“scott dimovitz”

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  • The Joy Divisions

    by Scott Dimovitz ...
    The year is 1993, and art-school dropout Ed Pullman has returned home to work as a janitor in Allentown, Pennsylvania-the enigmatic nexus where goth kids, coffeeshop culture, and sultry drag queens collide with neo-Nazis, the dying textiles industry, and an unsettling commune led by an aspiring cult leader named Tod Griffon. As Ed and his loving cousin Ester struggle to find their place in a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer

    by Scott Dimovitz ...
    Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carter's problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the intricate connections between Carter's private life and her public writing. He begins with Carter's assertion that it was through her "sexual and emotional life" that she was radicalized, drawing ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Best American Essays 2013

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  • The Best American Essays 2021

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  • Drops Like Stars

    A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering

    by Rob Bell, Don Golden ...
    In Drops Like Stars, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins explores the complex relationship between suffering and creativity. Rob Bell (“One of the country’s most influential evangelical pastors” —New York Times) suggests that art can be found in the agony of our lives. Fans of the thought-provoking works of Donald Miller, N.T. Wright, Brian McLaren, and Timothy Keller will find true ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2018

    by Hilton Als ...
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    The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" ( New York Times) to the task."The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2015

    Edited by Ariel Levy ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "22 contributors explore a wide range of experiences" in this "illuminating, invaluable" anthology edited by the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs ( Publishers Weekly).Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. The writers featured in this volume are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide ... Read more

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  • Losing My Cool

    Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd

    by Thomas Chatterton Williams ...
    A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books.Into Williams's childhood home-a one-story ranch house-his father crammed more books than the local library could hold. "Pappy" used some of these volumes to run an academic prep service; the rest he used in his unending pursuit of wisdom. His ... Read more

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  • Electric Arches

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  • The Best Creative Nonfiction (Vol. 3)

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  • Wherever You Go, There They Are

    Stories About My Family You Might Relate To

    by Annabelle Gurwitch ...
    A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along the way.When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly ... Read more

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