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  • How to Be Weird

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    A guidebook for beating the monotony of the everyday by purposefully cultivating the surprising joys that come from living an off-kilter lifeIt's all too easy to get caught up in the often monotonous nature of our day to day--moving from one rote task to the next, only to rinse and repeat the next day. Weirdness, however, is an easily accessible antidote to these feelings of languishing. The ... Leer más

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  • Against Happiness

    In Praise of Melancholy

    "[A] lively, reasoned call for the preservation of melancholy in the face of all-too-rampant cheerfulness. . . . Pithy and epigrammatic." — Bookforum"A wicked, wise and cheerfully misanthropic treatise." — Publishers WeeklyWe are addicted to happiness. More than any other generation, Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy... ... Leer más

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  • Point Blank

    Series series BFI Film Classics
    John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento (2000).Eric Wilson's compelling study of the film ... Leer más

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  • Dream-Child

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    An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his workA pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775'Äì1834) found inspiration in London's markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized the city's literary scene, too, where he was a star wit. He counted among his admirers Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His ... Leer más

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  • Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck

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    Why can't we look away?Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror ... Leer más

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  • Keep It Fake

    Inventing an Authentic Life

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    How to Be Weird

    An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life

    Narrado por Jane Oppenheimer ...

    Completo

    4 hora 4 minutos

    A guidebook for beating the monotony of the everyday by purposefully cultivating the surprising joys that come from living an off-kilter lifeIt's all too easy to get caught up in the often monotonous nature of our day to day--moving from one rote task to the next, only to rinse and repeat the next day. Weirdness, however, is an easily accessible antidote to these feelings of languishing. The ... Leer más

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  • The Best American Essays 2020

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