Dead as Doornails: A Memoir 1901866424, 9781901866421

In this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this g

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Dead as Doornails: A Memoir
1901866424, 9781901866421

The irreverent and insightful story of Canada's unknown movie mogul.

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To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Fr

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Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations around caste-based discr

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Thirty-one moons -- Popeye -- Gaga in the jungle -- Terrapin soup -- My family and other domestics -- Ugly house -- DC -

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A comedy for catastrophic times." --CBC "A hilarious memoir of effervescent misadv

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Can the dead tell their stories? In the hands of a good forensic surgeon, they certainly can. First published in 2010 i

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Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown's life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching

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"This story--part memoir, part historical fiction--spans a period of one hundred years, from 1914 to 2014, with the

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Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States

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In the cinema many were living and many kept on living and many became dead, as Gertrude Stein might say. Some kept on l

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