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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everybody Has a Podcast Except You
Book SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcast…and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy made their names as “advice giving brothers who have no business giving advice” (New York Times) on the hit podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me. But while they may not have the best relationship or workplace advice, they certainly make you laugh, and they do know a thing or two about podcasting. In fact, the McElroy Brothers have spent the last decade making podcasts, including My Brother, My Brother and Me; The Adventure Zone; Sawbones; and more. From their start, independently producing and releasing the early episodes of My Brother, My Brother and Me, to their eleven currently available podcasts, the McElroys have become experts in creating successful podcasts. And now, they want to share what they’ve learned with you. In Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You), the McElroy Brothers will walk you through the process of turning an idea into ear-candy for legions of fans, sharing their expertise on everything from deciding on an effective name (definitely not something like My Brother, My Brother and Me), what type of microphone to use (definitely not one from the video game Rock Band), to making lots and lots of money (spoiler: you probably won’t). A must-read for anyone interested in podcasting, Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) shares the keys to success as well as the mistakes to avoid and draws on the vast experiences of three of the funniest and most successful podcasters working today.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pandoras Box
Book SynopsisA NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SELECTION?Biskind?s saga about the rise and fall of prestige television explains, in punchy, propulsive prose, how we went from Tony Soprano to Ted Lasso.? ?New YorkerBestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable, followed by streaming, which overturned both?based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actorsWe are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in its various guises and formats, has seized the entertainment mantle from movies and dominates our leisure time. How and why this happened is the subject of this book.Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora?s Box asks, ?What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?? The answer: It gave us a revolution. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending up with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, Max, and the killer pluses?Disney, Apple TV, and Paramount.Since the creative and business sides of TV are thoroughly entwined, Biskind examines both, and the interplay between them. Through frank and shockingly intimate interviews with creators and executives, Pandora?s Box investigates the dynamic interplay of commerce and art through the lens the game-changing shows they aired?not only old warhorses like The Sopranos, but recent shows like The White Lotus, Succession, and Yellow- (both -stone and -jackets)?as windows into the byzantine practices of the players as they use money and guile to destroy their competitors.In the end, this book crystal-balls the future in light of the success and failures of the streamers that, after apparently clearing the board, now face life-threatening problems, some self-created, some not. With its long view and short takes?riveting snapshots of behind-the-scenes mischief?Pandora?s Box is the only book you?ll need to read to understand what?s on your small screen and how it got there.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pops
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Best Strangers in the World
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Irma
Book SynopsisA son?s lessons from his single mother?atwenty five year old widow who took control of her life, defied expectations and raised him into a manhood of his own?from the author of the acclaimedThe Accidental Life.As a child, Terry McDonell imagined epic stories about his father, a fighter pilot who died in World War II. But, as he discovers in this dazzling memoir, the real hero in his life was his mother, Irma, who moved with him to California hoping for a new life and raised him through difficult times.Like most headstrong boys growing up in mid-century America, McDonell took his mother for granted, never giving her life much thought. He was bright, cocky, and determined to make his own way, separate from her and from his complicated roots. But as he matured, built a career, married, divorced, remarried, and raised his own sons, McDonell came to see that Irma had lived her life in a way that allowed him to discover what he wanted his own life to be. The person he was would be forever tied to Irma?s courage and wisdom and love. From his recollections?a series of colorful, deeply personal, sometimes funny, stunningly composed vignettes?an intriguing and poignant portrait emerges.Irmais the story ofa formidable woman who built the life she wanted as she raised her son to be the kind of man and father he had longed for but never knew.
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HarperCollins On the Grid
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Penguin Putnam Inc Garlic and Sapphires
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dolls Dolls Dolls Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls
Book SynopsisA blissful treasure trove of gossipy insider details that Dolls fans will swiftly devour.--Kirkus ReviewsThe unbelievable-but-true, inside story of Jacqueline Susann's pop culture icon Valley of the Dolls--the landmark novel and publishing phenomenon, the infamous smash hit film (the best worst movie ever made), and Dolls's thriving legacy todaySince its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the way books got sold, thanks to the tireless and canny self-promoting Susann. It also generated endless speculation about the author's real-life models for its larger-than-life characters. Turned in 1967 into an international box-office sensation and morphing into a much-beloved cult film, its influence endures today in everything f
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Oxford University Press Australia New Media
Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Terry Flew's New Media combines a comprehensive overview of theories of new media with contemporary cases studies.Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA; 2. TWENTY KEY NEW MEDIA CONCEPTS; 3. APPROACHES TO NEW MEDIA; 4. SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA; 5. PARTICIPATORY MEDIA CULTURES; 6. GAMES: TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, CULTURE; 7. ONLINE NEWS AND THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM; 8. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES; 9. THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; 10. TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION; 11. INTERNET LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE; 12. ONLINE ACTIVISM AND NETWORKED POLITICS; 13. CONCLUSION
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University of Chicago Press Nixon Memo Political Respectability Russia and
Book SynopsisIn 1992, Nixon wrote a private memo critical of Bush's policy towards Russia. The memo appeared on the front page of The New York Times. This book examines questions arising from this event, providing an account of how ideas on foreign policy are shaped by the intersection of press and politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Making Local News Paper
Book SynopsisAsks why crimes and accidents earn more news coverage than development and policy issues. Containing interviews with both journalists and city officials, this study looks at the economic motives of media owners, the professional motives of journalists, and the strategies of media-wise politicians.
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The University of Chicago Press Ogborn M Indian Ink
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, this work examines the East India Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also uncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire.
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Polish Hearst AmerykaEcho and the Public
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A superbly framed and detailed analysis of an influential crossover newspaper… In The Polish Hearst, Jaroszynska-Kirchmann exposes the fascinating, interconnected layers of ethnic history through Ameryka-Echo's multi-voiced record."--Polish American Studies “The Polish Hearst tells a compelling story that fills a void in the record of Antoni Paryski's contributions to the history of America's immigrant newspapers and augments the historiography of the American media to account for the contributions of the professional journalists and the readers-writers of the ethnic press as well."--Ohio Valley History "Recommended."--Choice"An important and groundbreaking work." --Journal of American Ethnic History"Who says creating a virtual community based on sharing information across space is new? Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann’s insightful study of Antoni Paryski, aka the Polish Hearst, the ethnic newspaper Ameryka-Echo, and the reader-writers who contributed to that Polish American paper, broadens our understanding of the letters of mobile people and how they created an ethnic public sphere."--Suzanne M. Sinke, author of Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920"The author has done an uncommon job in thoroughly analyzing a significant ethnic newspaper and inserting it into the mainstream of contemporary print culture studies. The role of readers as authors is examined in detail and shows how very much more there is to be done with ethnic print, which has played too little a part in scholarship to date."--James P. Danky, author of The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of Political Culture, 1850–1940"In relating this resonant, deeply researched and broadly conceived story of Antoni Paryski, the classically self-made Polish American publisher, the author provides important insights into ethnicity, the hard-won American identities of the immigrants and their children, and the nature of community in modern, culturally diverse societies."--David A. Gerber, University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of History"Well-written and broadly contextualized, this study about a key Polish American immigrant newspaper serves as an excellent starting point for anybody interested in the history of Polish Americans and the immigrant press in the United States during the twentieth century. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann opens a fresh perspective on the transformation of Polish America between the period of mass immigration around 1900 and the decline of ethnic life in recent decades."--Tobias Brinkmann, author of Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago "Does an admirable job in placing Antoni A. Paryski, the Ameryka-Echo, and his book publishing business firmly in the history not only of the Polish immigrant community, but within the historical context of Polish history, particularly the Positivist movement, and the history of journalism."--Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880–1922
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University of Illinois Press Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
Book SynopsisA spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped legacy media, killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital Spider? To solve the mystery, Kevin Barnhurst spent thirty years studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The usual suspects--technology, business competition, and the pursuit of scoops--are only partly to blame for the fate of news. The main culprit is modernism from the Mister Pulitzer era, which transformed news into an ideology called journalism. News is no longer what audiences or experts imagine. Stories have grown much longer over the past century and now include fewer events, locations, and human beings. Background and context rule instead. News producers adopted modernism to explain the world without recognizing how modernist ideas influence the knowledge they produce. When webs ofTrade Review"Ambitious and fascinating… A worthy invitation to further research and discussion about the role of journalism in society."--International Journal of Communication"Barnhurst's focus on the forms of news across media in the last century and this one is welcome and fresh. It is closely argued, often subtle and always interesting in its overall hypotheses. . . . It is thoughtful, seasoned and intellectually ambitious work." --Media History "This is a magisterial book, required reading for anyone seriously interested in the recent history or future of journalism. . . . Virtually every chapter has multiple insights worth consideration on their own, and it will, as important books do, generate future scholarship of note."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This book merits serious attention and informed appreciation from multiple sets of readers."--Journal of Communication "Kevin Barnhurst's Mister Pulitzer and the Spider successfully interweaves two distinct threads of exposition and narrative, with both contributing to why this book merits serious attention and informed appreciation from multiple sets of readers." --Journal of Communication"Everyone has a theory about what's gone wrong with the news business. Kevin Barnhurst's explanation is original, elegantly presented, and potentially useful both to journalists and to citizens trying to decide which version of the news is worth paying attention to."--James Fallows, author of Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy"With unparalleled scholarly precision spanning more than 200 years, Kevin Barnhurst chronicles the tumultuous evolution and revolution of news--how it's created and consumed. Through his panoramic lens, Barnhurst reveals a macro and micro focus on why today's newspapers are thinner, broadcast sound-bites shorter, and news often skeletal on the facts, the result of technology developing shorter attention spans. Spoiler alert, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider leaves us with a glimmer of hope."--Roberta Baskin, award-winning investigative journalist"Over the years, I've found few scholars whose work is as original, insightful, or readable as Kevin Barnhurst's. Mister Pulitzer and the Spider exceeds even that lofty expectation. Barnhurst's story of how the hierarchy and meaning of reporters' five Ws have changed since the late 1800s explains more fully how the news has shaped society, and been shaped by it, than any book I've read. If your nightstand, classroom, or personal library has room for only one book on journalism, make it this one."--Thomas E. Patterson, author of Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism"Kevin Barnhurst's methodical analysis of the forms in which journalistic expression has developed deserves study by anyone interested in public knowledge in an age of expanding communication technology."--Bill Kovach, co-author of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect "Kevin Barnhurst's tour of a century of American news draws on an imaginative blend of empirical content analysis and cultural criticism. Mister Pulitzer and the Spider explores how news evolved from the realism of storytelling to the modernism of interpretation and is full of interesting surprises for anyone who cares about the future of journalism in the Internet age."--David Nord, author of Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers "Far-reaching in its scope and provocative in its claims, this is a work of brilliant originality."--Stephen Coleman, co-author of The Media and the Public: "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse
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University of Illinois Press Global TV
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between the growth of global media and Cold War tensions and resolutionsTrade Review“The historical background Schwoch provides is certainly relevant as a backdrop to the US’s involvement with electronic information networks in the 21st century . . . . This is a readable, well-researched study.”--Choice"Vital to our understanding of global media."--Cinema Journal"An ambitious and informative study."--American Historical Review“A wholly original, well-researched, and superbly written account of the development of global television set within the intertwined contexts of American foreign policy, psychological warfare, and information diplomacy during the years 1946–69. Stimulating and enjoyable.”--John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television“The sheer joy that Schwoch takes in hauling curiosities out of the archives is contagious. The result is a portrait that brings forth many treasures, some comic, some poignant, from the Cold War era, and also provides some serious food for thought in considering current U.S. policy about international media and goodwill building.”--John Durham Peters, author of Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal TraditionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1PART 1: THE FIRST STRAND 1. "A Facet of East-West Problems" 17 2. "A Western Mind Would Consider This Kind of Spectacle as Stupid" 31 3. "The Key to Many of These Countries Is Not the Mud Hut Population" 43 4. "A Group of Angry Young Intellectuals" 61PART 2: THE SECOND STRAND 5. "We Can Give the World a Vision of America" 79 6. "A Record of Some Kind in the History of International Communication" 94 7. "Something of That Sense of World Citizenship" 118 8. "A New Idea Capable of Uniting the Thoughts of People All Over the Earth" 139 Epilogue: "To Speak with a Single Voice Abroad" 157 Notes 175 Selected Bibliography 207 Index 213Illustrations follow pages 76 and 138
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Hachette Books Playing Hurt My Journey from Despair to Hope
Book SynopsisA candid memoir about confronting a crippling disease, by the host of ESPN's Sports Reporters and ABC's college football
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Random House USA Inc A Writer at War
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Back Bay Books Like a Rolling Stone
Book SynopsisIn this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a 'touchingly honest' and 'wonderfully deep' memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen). Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.” His deeply personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept America and beyond. The age of rock and roll in an era of consequence, what will be considered one of the great watersheds in modern history. Wenner writes with the clarity of a journalist and an essayist. He takes us into the life and work of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. He was instrumental in the careers of Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Leibovitz. His journey took him to the Oval Office with his legendary interviews with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, leaders to whom Rolling Stone gave its historic, full-throated backing. From Jerry Garcia to the Dalai Lama, Aretha Franklin to Greta Thunberg, the people Wenner chose to be seen and heard in the pages of Rolling Stone tried to change American culture, values, and morality.Like a Rolling Stone is a beautifully written portrait of one man’s life, and the life of his generation.
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Little Brown and Company The Only Girl
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Little Brown and Company The Hungover Games A True Story
Book SynopsisThis 'funny, dark, and true' (Caitlin Moran) memoir is Bridget Jones's Diary for the Fleabag generation: What happens when you have an unplanned baby on your own in your mid-thirties before you've worked out how to look after yourself, let alone a child? This is the story of one woman's adventures in single motherhood. It's about what happens when Mr. Right isn't around so you have a baby with Mr. Wrong, a touring musician who tells you halfway through your pregnancy that he's met someone else, just after you've given up your LA life and moved back to England to attempt some kind of modern family life with him. So now you're six months along, sleeping on a friend's sofa in London, and waking up in the morning to a room full of taxidermied animals who seem to be staring at you. The Hungover Games about what it's like raising a baby on your own when you're mo
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Back Bay Books THAT WILL NEVER WORK
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Random House Publishing Group A Reporters Life By Cronkite Walter
Book Synopsis'IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR.'--The Wall Street Journal'Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year.'--Ann Landers'Entertaining . . . The story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself. . . . His memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century--events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work.'--The New York Times Book ReviewA MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF THE MONTH CLUB
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Random House USA Inc Eyes on the Street The Life of Jane Jacobs
Book SynopsisThe first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates—all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.
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Random House Canada Mass Disruption
Book SynopsisDrawing on his thirty years in newspapers, the former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail examines the crisis of serious journalism in the digital era, and searches for ways the invaluable tradition can thrive in a radically changed future. John Stackhouse entered the newspaper business in a golden age: 1980s circulations were huge and wealthy companies lined up for the privilege of advertising in every city's best-read pages. Television and radio could never rival newspapers for hard news, analysis and opinion, and the papers' brand of serious journalism was considered a crucial part of life in a democratic country. Then came the Internet... After decades as a Globe journalist, foreign bureau chief and then editor of its Report on Business (not to mention former Scarborough delivery boy), he assumed one of the biggest jobs in Canadian journalism: The Globe and Mail's editor-in-chief. Begi
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Pieces of the Frame
Book SynopsisPieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico; from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art''s sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee''s writing is more than informative; these are stories, artful and full of character, that make compelling reading. They play with and against one another, so that Pieces of the Frame is distinguished as much by its unity as by its variety. Subjects familiar to McPhee''s readerssports, Scotland, conservationare treated here with intimacy and a sense of the writer at work.
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Vintage Espanol Casi una Mujer Almost a Woman
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Random House USA Inc A Long Way From Home Growing Up in the American
Book SynopsisReflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty yearsFrom his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom’s mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers’ proj
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WW Norton & Co Howard Cosell the Man the Myth and the
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WW Norton & Co Unreliable Memoirs
Book SynopsisA best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States.Trade Review"Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter. . . . What’s worse, you can’t put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed." -- Sunday Times
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WW Norton & Co Cast of Characters Wolcott Gibbs E B White James
Book Synopsis“Exuberant . . . elegantly conjures an evocative group dynamic.” —Sam Roberts, New York TimesTrade Review"Swift and enjoyable reading." -- Pamela Erens - New York Times Book Review"Vinciguerra is an artful stage manager of his material; at times, one has a stirring sense of eavesdropping on intimate, literate, testy conversations. As a writer, he has a knack for understatement, an eye for the odd and telling fact….his writing would not be out of place in a New Yorker issue of, say, 1938. I hasten to add that that is a high compliment." -- Ben Yagoda - Wall Street Journal"Fresh and invigorating…it’s to Vinciguerra’s great credit that he manages to avoid both condescension and hagiography in writing about the flawed, brilliant people behind it." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"Captures the eccentricities and idiosyncrasies of its editors and writers…will be embraced be faithful New Yorker readers." -- Publishers Weekly"Vinciguerra’s writing has a way of bringing these characters to sparkling life…. New Yorker readers are a dedicated lot and will snap this ‘golden age’ volume up." -- Booklist"Irresistible…a banquet of information about the good writing and bad manners of the eccentric crew who made a myth both of themselves and of the journal they made famous. Vinciguerra writes a sharp, crisp sentence, and tells his story with brio." -- John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh"Reading Thomas Vinciguerra’s Cast of Characters is like being at a tantalizing gossip session about the star writers and supporting players of The New Yorker in its formative years. The book is entertaining, often surprising, and deeply interesting. Vinciguerra is an avid chronicler and a fair one." -- Mary Norris, New York Times best-selling author of Between You and Me"To lovers of The New Yorker, Tom Vinciguerra’s marvelous Cast of Characters is a must-have. It’s as close as you’ll ever get to going behind the scenes with Wolcott Gibbs, James Thurber, E. B. and Katharine White, and their colleagues as they helped Harold Ross create this influential publication. Gibbs’s role in particular is a revelation." -- Thomas Kunkel, author of Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker"Too many of the books about the Algonquin Round Table and The New Yorker magazine are little more than laundry lists of well-worn anecdotes. Thomas Vinciguerra gives us substance along with the bon mots and, in so doing, evokes the bright, brilliant, long-ago Manhattan that all newcomers have dreamed of finding." -- Tim Page, author of Dawn Powell: A Biography and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism"Writing this scrupulous is almost never this completely entertaining. Cast of Characters brings White, Thurber, and Gibbs—and the American culture of letters during an unexampled heyday—to brilliant life." -- Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir"Compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud funny. With talent, tireless research, and the necessary obsession, Tom Vinciguerra has managed to breathe fresh life into a famous and glittering cast of characters…. The history of The New Yorker is richer for it." -- Linda H. Davis, author of Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
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WW Norton & Co Fierce Ambition
Book SynopsisA spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession.Trade Review"[A] mesmerizing, meticulously researched biography.... Higgins was only 45 when she died on Jan. 3, 1966. Ms. Conant’s book has brought her back to life." -- Andrew Nagorski - Wall Street Journal"The glamorous, accomplished 20th-century war journalist Higgins—a Pulitzer winner with a nose for news and the nerve to chase it at any cost—gets her due in this lively biography." -- New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice"Higgins’s life is now rendered in full, no longer lost to the march of male-dominated history." -- Helene Stapinski - Washington Post"Kept me turning the pages because this true story is more compelling than most novels.... A tale of triumph over almost insurmountable odds." -- Sandy Kenyon - WABC-TV"No one who reads the first chapter will be able to set this book aside, rich as it is in rare insights and high drama. Fierce Ambition left me believing that if Maggie Higgins could have selected her biographer it would have been Jenny Conant." -- Cynthia McFadden, senior investigative and legal correspondent, NBC News"The remarkable story of an irrepressible wartime reporter who would do almost anything to get a scoop. Beautiful, brilliant, and demanding, Maggie Higgins was a comet in the gray, male world of mid-twentieth-century American journalism captured in all of her complexity by Jennet Conant in her utterly compelling Fierce Ambition." -- Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power"Jennet Conant’s brilliant storytelling and extraordinary granular research bring Maggie Higgins’s long-forgotten but vital story to life…Her fearless quest to bring the truth to light will serve as inspiration for a new generation of pathfinding women. What a woman, what a legend." -- Janine di Giovanni, author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria"Maggie Higgins lived life at a gallop and this book keeps up with her…Jenny Conant tells the whole story with verve, insight, and deep appreciation for this fascinating, complex, and pioneering woman." -- Richard Cohen, four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist"Fierce Ambition is a reflection of journalism, hung on the passionate, brilliant, sexy, hilarious, honest, complicated, moving, tough, heartbreaking, outrageous, courageous, astonishing life of the intrepid ‘girl’ war correspondent Maggie Higgins. Slam! Bang! Kapow! If you’re a journalist and you’re not reading Fierce Ambition, you’re not doing your homework." -- Terry McDonell, author of The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers"Doggedly reported, incisive, and one fabulous ride, Fierce Ambition shows us a Maggie Higgins who is bold, shrewd, and indomitable, a role model not just for aspiring journalists but for fearless women of every stripe." -- Mimi Swartz, executive editor, Texas Monthly"Engrossing.... Propulsive and high-spirited, this is a riveting depiction of a larger-than-life trailblazer." -- Publishers Weekly"An admiring, cleareyed portrait of an ambitious, successful woman." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Random House USA Inc At Random Reminiscences
Book Synopsis“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his c
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Penguin Putnam Inc Black Like Me
Book SynopsisTHE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA''S SEGREGATED SOUTH“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to John Howard Griffin—from the outside and within himself—as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read. With an Epilogue by the author and an
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The University of Michigan Press Smartland Korea
Book SynopsisAnalyses mobile communication in the context of Korean smartphones. This book looks into a largely neglected focus of inquiry, a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Koreans' engagement with their devices and applications. Dal Yong Jin focuses on the achievement of technological advancement and the significance of social milieu in the development of the smartphones.Trade ReviewSmartland Korea is an empirically rich study that is multi-perspectival in incorporating industry and technology studies, policy analysis, audience/user research, and case studies. As the Korean case is under-explored in the English-language communication and media studies literature relative to its global significance, this is an important contribution to the overall literature in the field."" - Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Media Welfare State
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Vintage Espanol El Escndalo del Siglo Textos En Prensa Y Revistas
Book SynopsisDejó muy claro Gabriel García Márquez que el periodismo siempre fue su principal pasión, la más perdurable y por la que quiso ser recordado: “No quiero que se me recuerde por Cien años de soledad, ni por el premio Nobel, sino por el periódico. [...] Nací periodista y hoy me siento más reportero que nunca. Lo llevo en la sangre, me tira”. Esta antología pretende ser la muestra más representativa de la tensión narrativa entre periodismo y literatura que recorrió toda su trayectoria como reportero. Cubriendo cuatro décadas, este delicioso viaje a través de medio centenar de textos muestra como “el mejor oficio del mundo” está en el corazón de la obra del premio Nobel colombiano. Con edición a cargo de Cristóbal Pera y prólogo de Jon Lee Anderson, este volumen contiene piezas tan indispensables co
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Alfred A. Knopf Working
Book Synopsis“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's mi
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Diversified Publishing No Rules Rules
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestsellerShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the YearNetflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world''s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companiesThere has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other compani
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Random House USA Inc Dilettante
Book SynopsisA witty, insightful, and delightfully snarky blend of pop culture meets memoir meets real-life Devil Wears Prada as readers learn the stories behind twenty-five years at Vanity Fair from the magazine’s former deputy editor“Dilettante offers the best seat in the house into the workings of one of the great cultural institutions of our time.”—Buzz Bissinger, New York Times bestselling author of Friday Night LightsDana Brown was a twenty-one-year-old college dropout playing in punk bands and partying his way through downtown New York’s early-nineties milieu when he first encountered Graydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair. After the two had a handful of brief interactions (mostly with Brown in the role of cater waiter at Carter’s famous cultural salons he hosted at his home), Carter saw what he believed to be Brown’s untapped potential, and on a whim, hired him as h
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Random House USA Inc An Affirming Flame
Book Synopsis“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from the streets of Kyiv to an execution chamber in Alabama, you can read him at his best.”—Dexter Filkins, best-selling author of The Forever WarA collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen over more than a decade, accompanied by an original, twenty-thousand-word essay on the state of the worldThe countless readers who followed Roger Cohen’s column and mourned its end responded above all to what they saw as the marriage in his writing of head and heart. That tenor permeates An Affirming Flame.During his twelve years as a columnist, Cohen aimed to hold power to account at home and abroad, in the na
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Random House USA Inc Looking for Trouble
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Random House USA Inc The Summer Friend
Book SynopsisAlive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.“Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times“Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire FallsIt was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that?Over the course of this rich
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Penguin Putnam Inc I Love Russia
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Diversified Publishing Never Give Up
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Penguin Random House India Some Sizes Fit All
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Phaidon Press ellebrity
Book SynopsisA survey of the unforgettable career of legendary adman George Lois.
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Irish Academic Press Ltd De Valera Fianna Fail and the Irish Press The
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Random House Canada Run Hide Repeat
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionLonglisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction AwardShortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book AwardShortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging AuthorsAn unforgettable family tale of deception and betrayal, love and forgivenessPauline Dakin spent her childhood on the run. Without warning, her mother twice uprooted her and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Disturbing events interrupt their outwardly normal life: break-ins, car thefts, even physical attacks on a family friend. Many years later, her mother finally revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task
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