薇薇安·戈尔尼克（Vivian Gornick，1935-） 1935年出生于纽约的一个工人家庭，投身20世纪60、70年代女权运动，美国女权主义作家。她从60年代开始写作，出版作品均为非虚构（回忆录、文学批评、散文等），多部作品曾入围美国国家书评人协会奖，被誉为“非虚构写作大师”。戈尔尼克关注女性问题，反思女性在成长不同阶段面临的处境，尖锐地刻画发生在女性之间的友谊和“战争”。

薇薇安·戈尔尼克（Vivian Gornick，1935-） 1935年出生于纽约的一个工人家庭，投身20世纪60、70年代女权运动，美国女权主义作家。她从60年代开始写作，出版作品均为非虚构（回忆录、文学批评、散文等），多部作品曾入围美国国家书评人协会奖，被誉为“非虚构写作大师”。戈尔尼克关注女性问题，反思女性在成长不同阶段面临的处境，尖锐地刻画发生在女性之间的友谊和“战争”。

The author recounts her childhood experiences living in a tenement, looks at her relationship with her mother, and describes the lives of women bound to husbands they didn't love

"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . " Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of t...(展开全部)

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

Growth is good. Through history, economic growth, in particular, has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce better medicines, and ensure greater autonomy, greater fulfillment, and more sources of fun. If we want to continue on our trend of growth, ...(展开全部)

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas" by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange koans and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her g...(展开全部)

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashe...(展开全部)