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  • The Logos

    de Mark de Silva ...
    Unemployed, lonesome, abandoned by his lover, an obscure artist on the verge of despair begins to question the worth of his craft-until, without warning, he lands the opportunity of a lifetime. Courted by a wealthy patron with enigmatic motives, he yields his talents to corporate interests. In theory, his brief is to sell his soul-to mastermind a publicity campaign for a line of products designed ... Leer más

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  • The Logos

    de Mark de Silva ...
    There are epic novels and then there is The Logos. Mark de Silva returns to fiction writing, following his debut, Square Wave (Two Dollar Radio), with a novel so full of ambition, lyricism and philosophical underpinnings that it is Proustian in its ambition and scope, exploring what it means to be a working artist in the 21st century with clever poignancy. With a career in academia and writing for ... Leer más

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  • Points of Attack

    de Mark de Silva ...
    In this collage of critical reflections, written in the tradition of the short essay running through Francis Bacon and Roland Barthes, the novelist, philosopher, and former New York Times Opinion staffer Mark de Silva looks into matters of both common curiosity and special concern in America today: technological evolution, virtuality, terrorism, the future of the self, the individual's place in a ... Leer más

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  • Being Wrong

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    The bestselling history of and investigation into human error by beloved New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz"Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it." —Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetTo err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are ... Leer más

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  • How to Think

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    de Alan Jacobs ...
    "Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." **—David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.**As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications ... Leer más

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  • The Source of Self-Regard

    Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    de Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR).These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther ... Leer más

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  • The Woman in the Dunes

    de Kobo Abe ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held ... Leer más

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  • Fraud

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    From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to.In ... Leer más

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  • Warmth

    Coming of Age at the End of Our World

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  • Liquid Love

    On the Frailty of Human Bonds

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