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Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

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In this volume, David Lazar offers a detailed, humorous and touching recollection of his Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history - from childhood obesity to post-adolescent leanness - form the core of the essays.

A collection of personal essays, pieces exploring the essay form, and aphorisms, I'll Be Your Mirror explores memory, pain, historical essayists, contemporary creative nonfiction, all in the distinct voice of premier essayist David Lazar"--

What it means to be occasionally aware that we are surviving by our wits, and that our desires, ulterior or obvious, are what keep us alive.

In the body of Brooklyn David Lazar, an acclaimed essayist and prose stylist, offers a vividly detailed, hilarious, and touching recollection of his Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 70s. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history--from the travails of childhood obesity to the sexual triumphs of post-adolescent leanness--form the core of this series of essays, all of which will win the interest and admiration of readers. Moreover,...

A fascinating collection of essays that carries forward the omnidirectional momentum of the master. After Montaigne gives us grand examples of the essay as it lives today. Ian Frazier, author of Great Plains Imagine the dinner party: not just Montaigne but many Montaignes resurrected in these brilliant essays by twenty-eight of today s most inventive writers. The table is crowded, enlivened by the paradoxical warmth of Montaigne s detachment a...

This collection of interviews captures the conversation of one of the most prominent prose writers in the Unites States. About her the "Chicago Sun-Times" says, "She is to literary prose what Sir Laurence Olivier is to acting or Willie Mays is to baseball." These interviews reveal her uncompromising and frequently contradictory attitudes toward the luxuries and necessities of gastronomy, the idea that sensual appreciation, in all aspects of li...

A reassessment of the debate surrounding Weber's classic work Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Includes essays by: Michel de Montaigne, William Cornwallis, Thomas Culpepper, Charles Colton, Joseph Addison, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alexander Smith, Virginia Woolf, Georg Lukcs, Christopher Morley, G. K. Chesterton, Theodor Adorno, Robert Atwan, Rda Bensmaa, Carl Klaus, R. Lane Kauffmann, Phillip Lopate, Hlne Cixous, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nancy Mairs, Cynthia Ozick, John D...

A sequence of prose poems about the ravages of love, how we desire it, and whether we care to recover.

Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work and the market mechanism in general. But it is more than a narrow study of financial market participants because it is also an empirical investigation into how ideologies function and it develops a critique of pro-market ideologies such as 'Thatcherism'. Finally, ...

This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world

Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work and the market mechanism in general. But it is more than a narrow study of financial market participants because it is also an empirical investigation into how ideologies function and it develops a critique of pro-market ideologies such as 'Thatcherism'. Finally, ...

From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, "How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a subcategory of faith? How do y...

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