Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. Nowadays, the best strateg...(展开全部)

Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. Nowadays, the best strateg...(展开全部)

简介：给至交的一些碎碎念算是回忆录和日记电子文档的整理补发我怕忘了你忘了有你的曾经以此书 致我们我该怎样去描述你“‌Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?‌（我怎能将你比作夏日？）‌Thou art more lovely and more temperate‌（你却更加可爱与温婉）”“靠近你就靠近了痛苦，远离你就远离了幸福”“你存在于我的每一次呼吸之间，吸进是创世的原始黑暗，呼出是末日的粲然灰烬”……我找不到也不想给出一个确切答案

简介：给至交的一些碎碎念算是回忆录和日记电子文档的整理补发我怕忘了你忘了有你的曾经以此书 致我们我该怎样去描述你“‌Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?‌（我怎能将你比作夏日？）‌Thou art more lovely and more temperate‌（你却更加可爱与温婉）”“靠近你就靠近了痛苦，远离你就远离了幸福”“你存在于我的每一次呼吸之间，吸进是创世的原始黑暗，呼出是末日的粲然灰烬”……我找不到也不想给出一个确切答案

In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses literally to everyone that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't even be published in the U.S. because they're not sexy enough.A playful and biting cr...(展开全部)

In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses literally to everyone that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't even be published in the U.S. because they're not sexy enough.A playful and biting cr...(展开全部)

An inspiring and epic tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot who was shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring home his remains six decades later Major George Eyster V comes from a long line of military officers, dating back to the Revolutionary War. Army service was George's family legacy, but his tour of...(展开全部)

Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and con...(展开全部)

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one poem has survived complete. In "If Not, Winter", Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missi...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly A classicist at McGill University, Carson has mined Greek literature, and Sappho in particular, to tremendous effect and acclaim in her poetry and essays. Her prose Eros the Bittersweet (1986) discussed Sappho's term "glukupikron" ("sweetbitter") among other Greek concepts, while the poems of Autobiography of Red (1998) reinvented surviving fragments of t...(展开全部)