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Both Flesh And Not
''Both Flesh and Not: Essays'' is a collection of fifteen essays by American author David Foster Wallace published posthumously in 2012. It is Wallace’s third essay collection. List of essays Printed between each essay are lists of obscure words and their definitions that Wallace kept. * "Federer Both Flesh and Not" (written in 2006) is considered one of Wallace's best essays. He describes professional tennis at its pinnacle through an examination of the talent of Roger Federer. The essay was first published in ''The New York Times ''as "Federer as Religious Experience" in 2006. * "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young" (1988), first appeared in ''Review of Contemporary Fiction'' (1988). As the book's publisher notes in the back matter, "Some of the ideas and language in this essay appear in 'E Unibus Pluram,' rom''A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again''. * "The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s ''Wittgenstein's Mistress''" (1990) appeared in ''Review of Contemporary Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', which ''Time'' magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, '' The Pale King'' (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. The ''Los Angeles Times''s David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years". Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. In 2008, he died by suicide at age 46 after struggling with depression for many years. Early life and education David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, to Sally Jean Wallace (' Foster) and James Donald Wallace. The family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Might (magazine)
''Might'' was a San Francisco-based magazine that existed between 1994 and 1997. History and profile ''Might'' was co-founded in 1994 by David Moodie, Marny Requa and Dave Eggers, who went on to describe the magazine's rise and fall in his bestselling memoir ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.'' The first issue appeared in the spring of 1994. With its name meant to suggest both "power" and "possibility," the magazine might be summarized as an effort by twentysomethings to say something instead of nothing. ''Might'' went out of business in July 1997, but back issues are still available through the Website of Eggers's writing organization, 826 Valencia. Featured topics # Double Fabulous Know-it-all Issue # For the Love of Cheese # Intimacy, AIDS, and the Moment # Is This Local TV News or Is This Satan's Parlor? # Adam Rich # Raising Hell # Vindicated at Last # The Millennium Issue # Spring Wedding Spectacular # Are Black People Cooler Than White People? The editors/writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolos Doxiadis
Apostolos K. Doxiadis ( el, Απόστολος Κ. Δοξιάδης; born 1953) is a Greek writer. He is best known for his international bestsellers ''Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture'' (2000) and ''Logicomix'' (2009). Early life Doxiadis was born in Australia, where his father, the architect Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was working. Soon after his birth, the family returned to Athens, where Doxiadis grew up. Though his earliest interests were in poetry, fiction and the theatre, an intense interest in mathematics led Doxiadis to leave school at age fifteen, to attend Columbia University, in New York, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He then attended the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris from which he got a master's degree, with a thesis on the mathematical modelling of the nervous system. His father's death and family reasons made him return to Greece in 1975, interrupting his graduate studies. In Greece, although involved for some ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Numbers
''The Wild Numbers'' is a mathematical fiction in the form of a short novel by Philibert Schogt, a Dutch philosopher and mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On .... It was first published in Dutch (as "De wilde getallen") in 1998 and an English translation appeared in 2000. Through this work the author is trying to provide insights to the workings of a mathematics-obsessed mind. It is the story of a professor of mathematics who believes he has solved one of the great problems of mathematics -- ''Beauregard's Wild Number Problem''. In the imaginary settings of the novel, the problem is presented as a real mathematical problem seeking a solution and not as a delusion of the protagonist. But in the real mathematical world, there is no such problem; it is a fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philibert Schogt
Philibert Schogt (born 1960) is a Dutch writer. He was born in Amsterdam, but grew up in the United States and Canada. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being .... He is best known for his novels '' De wilde getallen'' and '' Daalder''. His work has been translated into English, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish and Korean. References Dutch novelists 1960 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Writers from Amsterdam University of Amsterdam alumni Dutch male writers {{Netherlands-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays and three short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He is known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary American writers. McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, although he was raised primarily in Tennessee. In 1951, he enrolled in the University of Tennessee, but dropped out to join the US Air Force. His debut novel, ''The Orchard Keeper'', was published in 1965. Awarded literary grants, McCarthy was able to travel to southern Europe, where he wrote his second novel, ''Outer Dark'' (1968). '' Suttree'' (1979), like his other early novels, received generally positive reviews, but was not a commercial success. A MacArthur Fellowship enabled him to travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Or The Evening Redness In The West
Or or OR may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * "O.R.", a 1974 episode of M*A*S*H * Or (My Treasure), a 2004 movie from Israel (''Or'' means "light" in Hebrew) Music * ''Or'' (album), a 2002 album by Golden Boy with Miss Kittin * ''O*R'', the original title of Olivia Rodrigo's album ''Sour'', 2021 * "Or", a song by Israeli singer Chen Aharoni in Kdam Eurovision 2011 * Or Records, a record label * Organized Rhyme, a Canadian hip-hop group featuring Tom Green Businesses and organizations * Or (political party) (), Israel * OR Books, an American publisher * Owasco River Railway, Auburn, New York, U.S. (by reporting mark) * TUI fly Netherlands, formerly ''Arke'', a Dutch charter airline (by IATA designator) Language and linguistics * Or (digraph), in the Uzbek alphabet * Or (letter) (or ''forfeda''), in Ogham, the Celtic tree alphabet * Odia language, an ancient Indo-Aryan tongue spoken in East India (ISO 639) * Or, an English grammatical conjunction * -or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Johnson
Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, '' Jesus' Son'' (1992). His most successful novel, ''Tree of Smoke'' (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction. His other novels include ''Angels'' (1983), ''Fiskadoro'' (1985), '' The Stars at Noon'' (1986), '' Resuscitation of a Hanged Man'' (1991), '' Already Dead: A California Gothic'' (1997), ''The Name of the World'' (2000), '' Nobody Move'' (2009), ''Train Dreams'' (2011), and '' The Laughing Monsters'' (2014). Johnson was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His final work, a book of short stories titled ''The Largesse of the Sea Maiden'', was published posthumously in 2018. Johnson also wrote plays, journalism, and nonfiction. Early years Denis Johnson was born on July 1, 1949, in Munich, West Germany. Growing up, he also lived in the Philippines, Japan, and the suburbs of Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf; ; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen. He was known for various novels, among them ''Being There'' (1970) and '' The Painted Bird'' (1965), which were adapted as films in 1979 and 2019 respectively. Biography Kosiński was born Józef Lewinkopf to Jewish parents in Łódź, Poland. As a child during World War II, he lived in central Poland under a false identity, Jerzy Kosiński, which his father gave to him. Eugeniusz Okoń, a Catholic priest, issued him a forged baptismal certificate, and the Lewinkopf family survived the Holocaust thanks to local villagers who offered assistance to Polish Jews, often at great risk. Kosiński's father was assisted not only by town leaders and clergymen, but also by individua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steps (novel)
''Steps'' is a book by a Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosiński, released in 1968 by Random House. The work comprises scores of loosely connected vignettes or short stories, which explore themes of social control and alienation by depicting scenes rich in erotic and violent motives. It was Kosiński's second novel, a follow-up to his successful '' The Painted Bird'' released in 1965. ''Steps'' won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1969. Content ''Steps'' consists of a series of short stories, reminiscences, anecdotes and dialogues, loosely linked to each other or having no connection at all, written in the first person. The book does not name any characters or places where described situations take place. The book has been interpreted as being about "a Polish man's difficulties under the harsh Soviet regime at home played against his experiences as a new immigrant to the United States and its bizarre codes of capitalism." The stories reflect upon control, power, dominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omensetter's Luck
''Omensetter's Luck'' is the first novel by William H. Gass, published in 1966. Writing and publication Gass began writing ''Omensetter's Luck'' around 1954. He was working on the last chapter of the novel in 1958 when the manuscript was stolen off his desk, forcing him to begin rewriting the book from scratch. He says of this time, "I was in a funk, a kind of fugue state. I reconstructed the book by working almost nonstop for about six months." The novel was eventually published in 1966 and has gone through many editions, both foreign and domestic, and remains in print today. Plot ''Omensetter's Luck'' takes place in the 1890s in the fictitious town of Gilean, Ohio. The story is bookended by the story of Brackett Omensetter who arrives with his family to settle down. The middle (and the bulk) of the novel is devoted to the spiritual and mental degradation of the town's priest, Jethro Furber, who is jealous of Omensetter's magnetic personality and the luck that seems to underpin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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