Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the s...(展开全部)

Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the s...(展开全部)

Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinte...(展开全部)

Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinte...(展开全部)

作者：金·戈登，生于1953年，美国实验后朋克乐队“音速青年”创始成员兼主唱和贝斯手，被视作女权主义力量的灯塔，有“后朋克女神”之称。 出现于纽约的“音速青年”，是史上最具影响力的乐队之一，他们的传奇持续影响着独立摇滚和美国流行文化。戈登多年来在舞台上以神秘而疏离的气质著称，毫无女孩气，也不倒向男人气，与这支男性主导的纽约噪音乐队共同奋斗三十余年，更将自己的活动扩展至时尚、表演和艺术等领域，成为女性力量存在的鲜活证明。 2011年“音速青年”解散后，戈登组建了乐队“身体/头脑”（Body/Head）。2014年，出版艺术评论文集《这是我的身体吗？》（Is It My Body?），并在洛杉矶高古轩画廊（Gagosian Gallery)、纽约白色廊柱画廊（White Columns）、纽约303画廊（303 Gallery）举行个人艺术展。 戈登目前...(展开全部)

作者：金·戈登，生于1953年，美国实验后朋克乐队“音速青年”创始成员兼主唱和贝斯手，被视作女权主义力量的灯塔，有“后朋克女神”之称。 出现于纽约的“音速青年”，是史上最具影响力的乐队之一，他们的传奇持续影响着独立摇滚和美国流行文化。戈登多年来在舞台上以神秘而疏离的气质著称，毫无女孩气，也不倒向男人气，与这支男性主导的纽约噪音乐队共同奋斗三十余年，更将自己的活动扩展至时尚、表演和艺术等领域，成为女性力量存在的鲜活证明。 2011年“音速青年”解散后，戈登组建了乐队“身体/头脑”（Body/Head）。2014年，出版艺术评论文集《这是我的身体吗？》（Is It My Body?），并在洛杉矶高古轩画廊（Gagosian Gallery)、纽约白色廊柱画廊（White Columns）、纽约303画廊（303 Gallery）举行个人艺术展。 戈登目前...(展开全部)

In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s as well as marriage, motherhood, and independence. Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remark...(展开全部)

In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s as well as marriage, motherhood, and independence. Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remark...(展开全部)

A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dr...(展开全部)