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From Paris, with Poetry: On Henri Cole's 'Orphic Paris'
Henri Cole's Orphic Paris mines the city of light to illuminate the ends of his art.
09 Jan 2019
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Elsa Lanchester Was Born to Defy Heteronormativity
The reissue of autobiography Elsa Lanchester, Herself, brings forth an engaging woman who helped to queer Hollywood well beyond her role in The Bride of Frankenstein.
31 Oct 2018
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David Lynch and Kristine McKenna's 'Room to Dream' Never Awakens
The legendary director behind Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, and Mulholland Drive joins co-author Kristine McKenna for a unique blend of autobiography and biography that does little to solve the mysteries of his life and work.
11 Jul 2018
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Loudon Wainwright III's 'Liner Notes' Is Witty, Sad and Wonderful -- Like His Music
As the patriarch of a dynasty which makes The Osbournes seem as staid as The Waltons, Wainwright III muses on life, death, and public swimming pools.
19 Apr 2018
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Man Out of Time: Chateaubriand's 'Memoirs from Beyond the Grave'
This 19th century autobiography showcases the Romantic style for which Chateaubriand became known: vivid descriptions of nature and rustic life mixed with literary allusions and high rhetoric, all in the service of communicating intense, individual feeling.
07 Mar 2018
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On Life in Graphic Detail
Autobiographical Comics, the second volume in the Bloomsbury Comics Studies series successfully bridges the gap between academic studies and popular books that delight comics fans.
19 Feb 2018
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Literary reactions to cultural implosion
After Ireland considers the changing culture, the changing identity, and a fast-changing Ireland in the varied voices and languages of its literature.
10 Jan 2018
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'Born to Run': The Unfathomable Confessions of Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run, is on a mission to deliver us into the paradox of holy terror.
18 Oct 2016
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A 50th Anniversary Reflection on the Greatness of Lenny Bruce
Chief among Bruce’s peeves is hypocrisy of any stripe, and chief among his virtues is his constant willingness to cop to his own sordid contradictions.
09 Oct 2016
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Moving Pixels Podcast: Learning about Love from 'Cibele'
This week we take a look to see if Nina Freeman's Cibele can teach us something about romance in digital spaces.
15 Feb 2016
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In 'The Fly Trap' Fredrik Sjöberg Writes Much Like His Subjects Behave
If Sjöberg's stylistic tics are an impediment to real investigation, they at least provide an aesthetic pleasure all their own.
26 Aug 2015
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'Into the War' Is Introspective, Poignant, and Moralistic in All the Right Ways
Italo Calvino offers a rarely personal, and deeply insightful, glimpse of the adolescent experience of war with his autobiography, Into the War.
16 Oct 2014
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It's Refreshing to Read an Essay That's Not Trying to Tap Dance Its Way Into Your Heart
David Lazar's writing in Occasional Desire: Essays is personal yet scholarly, funny yet melancholy, familiar and warm, yet experimental and original.
31 Oct 2013
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Lenny's Scuffles
An autobiography that includes stealing from priests, going to the navy with Artie Shaw and fighting the law (Dead Kennedys style, somewhat).
17 Jun 2013
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycling in Neil Peart's 'Far and Away'
Reading Far and Away is like taking a personal journey with a good friend who has a great yarn to tell you about his globetrotting trips around the world.
12 Sep 2011
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