"The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified."--LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering o…
Canadian novelist Ray Robertson discusses the lives and careers of thirteen musicians he admires.
<DIV>A second volume of anti-economic etymological revaluation, playfully continuing the authors' search for a new mode of thinking about work.</DIV>
Provides an alphabetical survey of popular work terms and phrases used in American work environments throughout history, with definitions, synonyms, and short commentaries for each entry.
<DIV>A second volume of anti-economic etymological revaluation, playfully continuing the authors' search for a new mode of thinking about work.</DIV>
With 200 recipes from Italy's 20 regions, Cooking with Giovanni Caboto will help you master the art of Italian cuisine.
"In Measure Yourself Against The Earth, [Kingwell] brings his heady mixture of enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, lesiure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to imagine and achieve the society we want"--Page 2 of cover.
Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing'Battlestar Galactica'as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In'Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious e…
"In Measure Yourself Against The Earth, [Kingwell] brings his heady mixture of enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, lesiure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to imagine and achieve the society we want"--Page 2 of cover.
Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marías.
"Kociejowski draws on all the aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ... [that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you stud…
""Zoroaster's Children" brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing"--