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Portraying 9/11 : essays on representations in comics, literature, film and theatre / edited by Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony and Warren Rosenberg.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, trauma kitsch, and popular memory / Timothy Krause -- Spandex agonistes: superhero comics confront the war on terror / Matthew J. …”
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Colson Whitehead : the postracial voice of contemporary literature / Kimberly Fain.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Verticality: allegorical symbols of racial and national uplift -- Lila Mae, the invisible woman of The Intuitionist -- Piercing the veil: passing, color blindness, and postracialism -- The American spirit: John Henry's legendary and epic stature among folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan -- Heroism and masculinity in the industrial age and the digital age -- Commercial enslavement and liberation in the industrial age versus the digital age -- Apex: the metaphorical bandage that masks but never heals -- New York: a postracial dream realized or an American dream deferred -- The Colossus of New York: a tribute to gothic urban spaces -- Subways, rush hour, and downtown: New Yorkers lead quiet lives of desperation -- Social and philosophical divide: the intersection of class and race for an adolescent and adult Colson Whitehead -- Wright and Whitehead: black hunger in the South and black faces in the Hamptons -- Zone One: postapocalyptic zombies take over Manhattan in the age of nostalgia, despair, and consumption.…”
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The immigrant and the university : Peder Sather and gold rush California / Karin Sveen ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Monuments and Mysteries; 2 Sole Passenger; 3 Baptism and Marriage; 4 1837; 5 New Yorker and Norwegian; 6 A Specimen of the Gold; 7 A Particular Friend; 8 Drexel, Sather & Church; 9 Congratulating Himself on Freedom; 10 Cigars, Wine, and Other Evils; 11 The Turning Point; 12 Law in a Lawless City; 13 Gold, Pigs, and a Summer Residence; 14 The Foundation of Man's Future Circumstances; 15 Morals, Money, and War; 16 The Haunted House; 17 Never Sather & Son; 18 Among Friends on Wall Street; 19 Under the Fever Trees.…”
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Working for Harvey Weinstein was a 'brutal experience'.
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How to be a writer. Between the lines. Nathan Englander / CreativeLive.
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Listening to the page : adventures in reading and writing / Alan Cheuse.
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Seymour Hersh : scoop artist / Robert Miraldi.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…-- Reporting the Worst-Kept Secret in the World -- Sex, Lies, and Fraud -- Going after Sy Hersh -- The New Yorker Years -- An Alternative View of the Mideast -- Back on Top -- Epilogue : A Muckraker's Unfinished Business -- Selected Works of Seymour Hersh -- Seymour Hersh Timeline.…”
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