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...

Wenn der Staat DDR kritisiert wird, fühlen sich oft auch die Menschen kritisiert, die in ihm gelebt haben. Das macht Gespräche innerhalb von Familien über ihr Leben in der DDR so schwierig. Viele schweigen bis heute, doch in ihrem Schweigen wächst die Wut. Auf Initiative der Filmemacherinnen Sabine Michel und Dörte Grimm wagen Kinder und Eltern aus ganz unterschiedlichen Verhältnissen erstmals eine Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Geschichte....

Este volumen reúne, por primera vez, más de setenta entrevistas a cincuenta y siete figuras del pensamiento, las artes y las letras españoles, realizadas por un elenco de dieciocho entrevistadores. Hasta ahora inéditas en España, fueron publicadas en la prensa argentina entre 1907 y 1958. Leídas en conjunto, forman una suerte de mural de la cultura española de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Filósofos y novelistas, bailaoras y pintores,...

Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. But when Ribsy's original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry's faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. Has Klickitat Street seen the last of rambunctious Ribsy?

Lipsky conducted an extensive interview with author David Foster Wallace in 1996. Foster Wallace describes his upbringing, views on art, and struggles with both fame and mental illness, a struggle that ended when he took his own life in 2008.

In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who inspired him both to pack his bags to travel and to pick...

In CALLINGS, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some are paid well for their work, others not at all; some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; many overcame great odds or upturned their lives in order to pursue what matters to them. Many of these stories have never been published or broadcast by StoryCorps until now. We meet a man from the barrios of Texas whose harrowing...

A los 14 años, con la lectura de Análisis profano de Freud, se produce un quiebre en la vida de María Esther Gilio: "Después de haber pasado mi primera infancia diciendo 'quiero ser médica de locos', después de ver un film de Claudette Colbert en que ésta, con todo su encanto francés, convertía a locos furiosos en santos de estampita, quise ser psicoanalista". Este es el testimonio de alguien que sospecha que hablar de uno mismo en el pasado...

"Fitness, money, and wisdom--here are the tools. Over the last two years...Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe. Now, the distilled notebook of tips and tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of Titans"--Page 4 of cover.