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An interview with the author J. P. Donleavy, recorded in 1989 on the occasion of his exhibition at Anna-Mei Chadwick Gallery, Chelsea. He describes his formative experience of Dublin, with exhibitions there in 1948, '50, and '51, the catalogue manifestos, for these were his first published writings, leading to work on his first renowned novel, The Ginger Man.
Contents:
- Dublin days
- From painter to author
- The Ginger Man
- The manner of writing
- A view of the exhibition
- A mysterious imagination
- Biographical information
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Davina Rush en 04-10-15
De: Sarah Stodola
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What Are You Looking At?
- The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
- De: Will Gompertz
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A simply wonderful book with a serious flaw
- De 11104 en 05-02-21
De: Will Gompertz
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So Much Longing in So Little Space
- The Art of Edvard Munch
- De: Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large. Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done.
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5 out of 5 stars
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not just for Munch fans
- De Alexander en 08-19-24
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The Stephen King Companion
- Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror
- De: George Beahm
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper, Claire Christie
- Duración: 24 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at horror author King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. King expert George Beahm, who has published extensively about Maine's main author, is your seasoned guide to the imaginative world of Stephen King, covering his varied and prodigious output: juvenalia, short fiction, limited edition books, best-selling novels, and film adaptations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Kingopedia: Books, Movies, Bio and Art
- De tru britty en 02-28-16
De: George Beahm
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Draft No. 4
- On the Writing Process
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed writers of several generations. McPhee offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces and presents extracts from some of his best-loved work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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McPhee is the Craft
- De Darwin8u en 09-19-17
De: John McPhee
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The Contemporaries
- Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
- De: Roger White
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
From young artists trying to elbow their way in to those working hard at dropping out, White's essential audiobook offers a once-in-a-generation glimpse of the inner workings of the American art world at a moment of unparalleled ambition, uncertainty, and creative exuberance.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciations Spoil This Reading!
- De Jenny Jenkins en 06-17-15
De: Roger White
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
- De: Umberto Eco
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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big ideas presented simply
- De Ashton en 01-31-14
De: Umberto Eco
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Where the Heart Beats
- John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- De: Kay Larson
- Narrado por: Jason Wineinger
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind Expansion
- De Robert Keith en 04-04-15
De: Kay Larson
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The Creative Habit
- Learn It and Use It for Life
- De: Twyla Tharp
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 783
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 681
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 678
All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with 32 practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable 35-year career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A much-needed shout-out to good habits
- De cvstuart en 03-27-13
De: Twyla Tharp
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- De: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
- Narrado por: J.P. Romney
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- De George M. Liveakos en 03-24-17
De: Rebecca Romney, y otros
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,078
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 950
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 944
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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The Art of Rivalry
- Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
- De: Sebastian Smee
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary - one who was equally ambitious but who possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Death by bob souer
- De SKWAD en 01-18-18
De: Sebastian Smee
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- De: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, y otros
- Narrado por: Alexander Neubauer
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010), invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets. Full of compelling, in-depth conversation about manuscripts and drafts by the poets themselves, plus readings of the finished poems, these historic recordings offer one of the most detailed portraits ever produced of how poems are actually made.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De d en 08-28-16
De: Lucille Clifton, y otros
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
- A Life of David Foster Wallace
- De: D. T. Max
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 343
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 342
David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Max avoids hagiography or a sycophant's biography
- De Darwin8u en 06-11-13
De: D. T. Max
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Memory Craft
- Improve Your Memory with the Most Powerful Methods in History
- De: Lynne Kelly
- Narrado por: Nancy Linari
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So grateful this is on Audible!
- De happy_reader en 02-19-22
De: Lynne Kelly
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- De: Margalit Fox
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Discovery and Translation of Linear B Script
- De Sires en 01-11-14
De: Margalit Fox