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Local Clairvoyants Split Over Future
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about psychics.
Turning the Wheel
Essays on Buddhism and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of life in this country. Or at least not with a high level of creative productivity."...
Napoleon
A Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This sophisticated and masterful biography, written by a respected French history scholar who has taught courses on Napoleon at the University of Paris, brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman.
Since boyhood, Steven Englund has been...
The Age of Radiance
The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“A thrilling, intense, and disturbing account of the atomic era, from the discovery of X-rays to the tragic meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…Rich with powerful images and fraught with drama” (The Christian Science Monitor).
When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and...
A Whole New Life
An Illness and a Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us with a more personal story, a narrative as...
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
Murder and Memory in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred...
Monogamy
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about monogamy.
Cultural Betrayal
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman's assembly of his best work from Esquire, GQ, Spin, The New York Times Magazine, and newpapers around the country--including such hard-to-find treasures as the ground-breaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored Esquire profile of Brittany...
Super People
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about Super People.
The Amazing McNugget Diet
Essays from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about Chicken McNuggets.
"The Best Response"
An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about the best response to various situations.
4,8,15,16,23,42
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about Lost.
"Ha ha," he said. "Ha ha."
An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about sitcoms.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
An inspiring anthology that celebrates our nation with more than one hundred of the greatest poems ever written about the landscapes, institutions, and transforming events of America.
This remarkable volume commemorates our country's struggles and triumphs with poems chronicling the American...