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Au coeur de l'orchestre
By Christian Merlin. 2012
"Je vivais seul, dans les bois" ((Collection Folio. 2 [euros] ; 4745.) #Vol. 35628)
By Henry David Thoreau, Louis Fabulet. 1922
Doubler le cap: essais et entretiens
By J. M Coetzee. 2007
Si l'on connaît l'oeuvre romanesque de J. M. Coetzee, on oublie trop souvent qu'il est aussi un analyste et un…
essayiste des plus remarquables. Qu'il s'exprime sur la littérature classique (Tolstoï, Rousseau, Dostoïevski), contemporaine (Salman Rushdie, J. L. Borges, Naguib Mahfouz, Joseph Brodsky, Aharon Appelfeld) ou sud-africaine (Doris Lessing, Breyten Breytenbach, Nadine Gordimer), ou sur la genèse de son oeuvre (ses travaux sur Beckett), Coetzee le fait chaque fois avec la même rigueur et la même élégance dans le propos. Les vingt et un essais et entretiens présentés ici offrent une sélection très large de ses interventions critiques les plus importantes et visent à donner une vue d'ensemble du savoir et du savoir-faire de l'auteur. Tous ces textes sont d'une grande intelligence, tantôt érudits, tantôt provocateurs, et révèlent l'intérêt de l'auteur pour l'histoire, la politique, les liens de la littérature avec la culture et la société. 2007.Figures in a landscape: people and places
By Paul Theroux. 2018
A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise…
with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies his signature searching curiosity to a life lived as much in reading as on the road. This writerly tour-de-force features a satisfyingly varied selection of topics that showcase Theroux's sheer versatility as a writer. Travel essays take us to Ecuador, Zimbabwe, and Hawaii, to name a few. Gems of literary criticism reveal fascinating depth in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad, and Hunter Thompson. And in a series of breathtakingly personal profiles, we take a helicopter ride with Elizabeth Taylor, go surfing with Oliver Sacks, eavesdrop on the day-to-day life of a Manhattan dominatrix, and explore New York with Robin Williams. An extended mediation on the craft of writing binds together this wide-ranging collection, along with Theroux's constant quest for the authentic in a person or in a place. 2018. Uniform title: Essays.Another turn of the crank: essays
By Wendell Berry. 1995
A series of provocative essays espousing the importance of strong communities and local economies. Berry laments the adverse effects on…
community life of such forces as centralized government and the global economy. He offers suggestions for returning to simpler ways. 1995.John Chancellor makes me cry
By Anne Rivers Siddons. 1975
Personal essays spanning a year in the author's life. She writes of her peculiar response to the evening news, a…
visit to a haunted wintertime beach, a wild--but touching--college reunion, and loving memories of her grandfather. 1975.Jazz anecdotes
By Bill Crow. 1990
Bookshops: a cultural history (Biblioasis international translation series ; #no. 22)
By Jorge Carrión. 2017
Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop…
and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social impact, 'Bookshops' is both a manifesto and a love letter to these spaces that transform readers' lives. 2017. Uniform title: Librerías.Blank: essays & interviews (Essais ; #no. 3)
By M. Nourbese Philip, Marlene Nourbese Philip. 2017
A collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through…
an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the margin of history, in the shadow of empire and at the frontier of silence. In heretical writings that work to make the disappeared perceptible, "Blank" explores questions of race, the body politic, timeliness, recurrence, ongoingness, art, and the so-called multicultural nation. Through these considerations, Philip creates a linguistic form that registers the presence of what has seemingly dissolved, a form that also imprints the loss and the silence surrounding those disappearances in its very presence. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Is this live?: inside the wild early years of MuchMusic : the nation's music station
By Christopher Ward. 2016
On August 31, 1984, the Nation’s Music Station launched. The dream child of TV visionary Moses Znaimer and John Martin,…
Much was live and largely improvised, and an entire generation of Canadians grew up watching the VJs and embraced the new music that became the video soundtrack of our lives. Stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much are told by the people who were there - the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms as never before, and the people behind the cameras. 2016.This music myth-debunking volume is organized by subjects such as song lyrics, deaths, and the origins of album and song…
titles. Some of the rumours and mysteries Edwards untangles are old favourites, such as Paul McCartney's alleged death, Robert Johnson's purported sale of his soul to the devil, and the subject of Carly Simon's "You're so Vain." Others are more recent and obscure, such as Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro's death, what's not tattooed on Tom Waits's chest, and the inspiration for the White Stripes's "Hotel Yorba." Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 2006.In their lives: great writers on great Beatles songs
By Andrew Blauner. 2017
An anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. Arranged chronologically…
by the date of the song's release, these essays highlight both the Beatles' evolution as well as the span of generations their music affected. 2017.Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-1991
By Salman Rushdie. 1991
The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects, many dealing with…
India - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. 1991.Bad singer: the surprising science of tone deafness and how we hear music
By Tim Falconer. 2016
The author is part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia -- tone-deafness. The book chronicles his…
quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. 2016.Curry: eating, reading, and race (Exploded views)
By Naben Ruthnum. 2017
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist…
can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own background, Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, 'Curry' cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience. 2017.Arguments with the world: essays
By Bronwen Wallace, Joanne Page. 1992
Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
By Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Crate digger: an obsession with punk records
By Bob Suren. 2018
A small-town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape, and punk music and culture slowly takes over…
all aspects of his life. His new passion causes him to form a band, track down out-of-print records he loves and reissue them, open a record store, start a record distribution operation as a public service, mentor a host of young musicians, and befriend all manner of punk luminaries along the way. Slowly his life's pursuit pushes him to the point of personal ruination and, ultimately, redemption. 2018.Don't save anything: uncollected essays, articles, and profiles
By James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter. 2017
Wolff braids three disparate strands--Calumet, Michigan; Woody Guthrie; and Bob Dylan--together to create a revisionist history of twentieth-century America. This…
book chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labour relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change. 2017.