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The Trip to Echo Spring

Author	: Olivia Laing
Publisher	: Canongate Books
Release Date	: 2013-07-11
ISBN 10	: 9780857868893
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (688 users)

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Download or read book The Trip to Echo Spring written by Olivia Laing and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. From Hemingway's Key West to Williams's New Orleans, Laing pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, and strips away the tangle of mythology to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

The Trip to Echo Spring

Author	: Olivia Laing
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2017-10-05
ISBN 10	: 1786891603
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book The Trip to Echo Spring written by Olivia Laing and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. From Hemingway's Key West to Williams's New Orleans, Laing pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, and strips away the tangle of mythology to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

Everybody

Author	: Olivia Laing
Publisher	: Pan Macmillan
Release Date	: 2021-04-29
ISBN 10	: 9781509857135
Pages	: 275 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (571 users)

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Download or read book Everybody written by Olivia Laing and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian 'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday Times At a moment in which basic rights are once again in danger, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X. Everybody is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 'An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum' - Evening Standard 'Laing’s gift for weaving big ideas together with lyrical prose sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin. In other words, she is among the most significant voices of our time.' - Financial Times

The Lonely City

Author	: Olivia Laing
Publisher	: Canongate Books
Release Date	: 2016-03-03
ISBN 10	: 9781782111245
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (112 users)

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Download or read book The Lonely City written by Olivia Laing and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Chosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Herald When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.

Funny Weather

Author	: Olivia Laing
Publisher	: Pan Macmillan
Release Date	: 2020-04-16
ISBN 10	: 9781529027662
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (276 users)

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Download or read book Funny Weather written by Olivia Laing and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. 'Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art’ - Telegraph Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining their roles in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time. We’re often told art can’t change anything. In Funny Weather, Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world, it exposes inequality, and it offers fertile new ways of living.

Crudo: A Novel

Author	: Olivia Laing
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date	: 2018-09-11
ISBN 10	: 9780393652734
Pages	: 160 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (527 users)

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Download or read book Crudo: A Novel written by Olivia Laing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, and Bustle Best Book of 2018 A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City. "She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn’t have a clue." Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker. From a Tuscan hotel for the superrich to a Brexit-paralyzed United Kingdom, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war. How do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all? In Crudo, her first work of fiction, Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce, compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems near.

The Hemingway Review

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN 10	: MINN:31951P011849816
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (51 users)

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To the River

Author	: Olivia Laing
Publisher	: Canons
Release Date	: 2017-10-05
ISBN 10	: 1786891581
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (81 users)

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Download or read book To the River written by Olivia Laing and published by Canons. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked. Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love.

GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks: Geormorphology, hydrogeology, geoarcheology, engineering geology

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1981
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015001634990
Pages	: 178 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks: Geormorphology, hydrogeology, geoarcheology, engineering geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1981
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105002764491
Pages	: 354 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drama, a View from the Wings

Author	: Randolph Goodman
Publisher	: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Release Date	: 1978
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105035541809
Pages	: 680 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Drama, a View from the Wings written by Randolph Goodman and published by Harcourt Brace College Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elements of Literature

Author	: Carl H. Klaus
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date	: 1986
ISBN 10	: 0195037367
Pages	: 1537 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (67 users)

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Download or read book Elements of Literature written by Carl H. Klaus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary American Thought

Author	: Edward Warren Johnson
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1968
ISBN 10	: UCAL:B4376072
Pages	: 594 pages
Rating	: 4.B/5 (76 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Thought written by Edward Warren Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drama on Stage

Author	: Randolph Goodman
Publisher	: Harcourt College Pub
Release Date	: 1978
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106001707873
Pages	: 686 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book Drama on Stage written by Randolph Goodman and published by Harcourt College Pub. This book was released on 1978 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts of tragedies and comedies representing various phases in the history of theatre are supplemented by production records and the comments of actors, critics, playwrights, producers, and technicians

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer

Author	: Tennessee Williams
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1971
ISBN 10	: UOM:39076006672922
Pages	: 536 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer written by Tennessee Williams and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.

Elements of Literature

Author	: Robert Scholes
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date	: 1978
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015005663391
Pages	: 1356 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Elements of Literature written by Robert Scholes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possible to describe "how it was, how it is, here, in the West--just that," in the words of Lynn Stegner? Starting with that challenge, Stegner and Russell Rowland invited several dozen members of the western literary tribe to write about living in the West and being a western writer in particular.West of 98gathers sixty-six literary testimonies, in essays and poetry, from a stellar collection of writers who represent every state west of the 98th parallel--a kind of Greek chorus of the most prominent voices in western literature today, who seek to "characterize the West as each of us grew to know it, and, equally important, the West that is still becoming." InWest of 98, western writers speak to the ways in which the West imprints itself on the people who live there, as well as how the people of the West create the personality of the region. The writers explore the western landscape--how it has been revered and abused across centuries--and the inescapable limitations its aridity puts on all dreams of conquest and development. They dismantle the boosterism of manifest destiny and the cowboy and mountain man ethos of every-man-for-himself, and show instead how we must create new narratives of cooperation if we are to survive in this spare and beautiful country. The writers seek to define the essence of both actual and metaphoric wilderness as they journey toward a West that might honestly be called home. A collective declaration not of our independence but of our interdependence with the land and with each other,West of 98opens up a whole new panorama of the western experience.

A Description of the Western Resorts for Health and Pleasure Reached Via Union Pacific Railway, "the Overland Route"

Author	: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1889
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:HX4TUX
Pages	: 136 pages
Rating	: 4.R/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book A Description of the Western Resorts for Health and Pleasure Reached Via Union Pacific Railway, "the Overland Route" written by Union Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: