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"Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics...
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How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances?
Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times best-selling author Martin Ford uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the...
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Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries and lives. How does Jane Goodall s relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place would Jared Diamond most prefer to live in, in light of his work on the role of chance in history? What does driving a sports car have to do with Steven Weinberg's...
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"An oral history of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon. Celebrated music critic and cultural historian David Hajdu unravels the mystery of a one of-a-kind artist, a pianist with a rare neurological condition that enables her to make music that is nothing less than pure, unmediated emotional expression. Her name is Adrianne Geffel, praised as "the Geyser of Grand Street" and the "Queen of Bleak Chic." Yet despite her renown, she curiously vanished from...
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A comprehensive history of LGBT music, encompassing a century of music by and for the LGBT community.
This revealing and timely book is a must-have for anyone passionate about music. LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance worldwide. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time...
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How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? How is Chuck Close's portraiture driven by his inability to remember faces? What pivotal moment helped Rosanne Cash understand the healing power of the stage? Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits--movies, novels, paintings, songs--but rarely are we privy to what happens in the creative process. In Spark, journalist Julie Burstein traces the roots of some of the twenty-first...
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The novel is alive and well, thank you very much
For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the former editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers. In How to Read a Novelist, which pulls together his very best profiles (many of them...
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"A ... window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it's worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the playing field: paid parental leave, affordable childcare, and broad support for gender equality as a core value. Reid takes us on an exploration not only around this fascinating island, but also through the triumphs and stumbles of a country as it journeys towards gender equality"--
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For anyone who's ever had the desire to look at the world through the eyes of our indigenous ancestors, here is a unique opportunity. Traveling between the Worlds is a treasure trove of insight and exploration into the ancient spiritual wisdom of such diverse cultures as Ireland, Africa, and the Americas. The keeper of this wisdom is the shaman--a man or woman who can, at will, enter into altered states of consciousness in order to acquire extrasensory...
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"Kathie Lee Gifford has for decades had deep conversations about her faith with anyone who is interested in talking about it. What she discovered early on is most people want to talk about Jesus: atheists, agnostics, Scientologists, broken-hearted Catholics, confused Baptists, Pentecostals, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Hindus alike. While some do not share her belief that Jesus is the Messiah, they nonetheless have a universal fascination with Him. This...
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Tom Petty was one of the greatest songwriters in rock n roll history, as well as a standard bearer for integrity in the music business. This expanded edition of the first authorized book on Tom Petty, and the only one in his own words, includes additional interviews, articles and reviews.
Trusted to conduct a series of in-depth interviews with a special focus on songwriting, Paul Zollo met with Tom for more than a year of Saturdays to compile this...
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"Nine Lives" explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, and the rich and colorful lives that played themselves out within its borders.
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What makes Dave Barry funny? Stephen King scary? Tami Hoag heartbreaking?
All readily admit that where they live greatly influences what they write.
Indeed, for both writers and readers, geography may well be destiny when it comes to fiction. Novelists often borrow from their surroundings, consciously or subconsciously, to create their imaginative worlds, just as we readers are drawn to those works that transport us to more exciting and inspiring...
17) Chanchullos
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Estos Chanchullos de Nicanor Parra son un collage de fragmentos de múltiples entrevistas que el poeta ha concedido a los largo de los años. En ellos, Parra se muestra renuente a la confesión biográfica y sentimental, aunque logra un despliegue móvil y brillante de temas, intensidades y contradicciones. Estas páginas juntan sus declaraciones literarias, comentarios culturales y políticos y muestran una vitalidad dispersa en torno a la poesía,...
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Retorno a la aldea reúne fragmentos de entrevistas realizadas a Jorge Teillier, que construyen y a la vez descortezan un bosque de palabras. Es una invitación al merodeo y a la cimarra, a escapar de los lugares comunes en torno a lo larico, pues en estos pasajes Teillier reflexiona críticamente sobre la identidad cultural de la poesía y el trasfondo político del progreso y las posturas ecologistas de moda. Los fragmentos componen el retrato de...
19) La tercera mano
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Aparte de algunos textos sobre arte dispersos en revistas, Adolfo Couve no dejo registro escrito de su ideario estético. Su pensamiento lo compartía mayoritariamente de manera oral, en sus clases en la universidad y en conversaciones ocasionales. Escucharlo era estimulante, por la agudeza de las observaciones, por el humor y por los ejemplos dislocados que solía utilizar. Si no fuera por las entrevistas que dio durante treinta años, sus iluminadoras...
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La poesía no es personal, esta construido sobre el montaje de intervenciones o entrevistas que Millán concediera desde 1984 hasta su muerte, funciona como una guía para aproximarse a su trabajo y también como un autorretrato. Los temas a los que alude Millán son muy diversos. Sus inicios en la escritura. Su generación. La dictadura y el exilio. La poesía como construcción. La poesía no es personal está hecha para tener valor de uso. Invita...
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