May 2007
Teenage by Jon Savage
Thu, 05/17/2007 - 12:06 — AnonymousSavage, acclaimed historian of the English punk movement ("England's Dreaming"), traces the roots of the teenager as an icon. Delving into film, music, literature, diaries, fashion, and art, Savage documents youth culture's development as a commodity and an industry from the turn of the last century through 1945. [History]
...Teenage by Jon Savage
Thu, 05/17/2007 - 12:06 — AnonymousSavage, acclaimed historian of the English punk movement ("England's Dreaming"), traces the roots of the teenager as an icon. Delving into film, music, literature, diaries, fashion, and art, Savage documents youth culture's development as a commodity and an industry from the turn of the last century through 1945. [History]
...Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Mon, 05/14/2007 - 20:43 — AnonymousIsaacson, author of acclaimed biography "Benjamin Franklin," brings us the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his personal letters and papers have become available. [Biographies & Memoirs, History]
...Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Mon, 05/14/2007 - 20:43 — AnonymousIsaacson, author of acclaimed biography "Benjamin Franklin," brings us the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his personal letters and papers have become available. [Biographies & Memoirs, History]
...The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Mon, 05/14/2007 - 13:37 — AnonymousWhitbread-winner Crace ("Quarantine") imagines a future post-apocalyptic America in which society has collapsed and its inhabitants scratch out a meager living by any primitive means necessary. The only reasonable hope for survival is a difficult trip east through the environmentally devastated land and passage by ship to Europe. []
...The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Mon, 05/14/2007 - 13:37 — AnonymousWhitbread-winner Crace ("Quarantine") imagines a future post-apocalyptic America in which society has collapsed and its inhabitants scratch out a meager living by any primitive means necessary. The only reasonable hope for survival is a difficult trip east through the environmentally devastated land and passage by ship to Europe. []
...Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Thu, 05/10/2007 - 13:07 — AnonymousHermione Lee, the author of "Virginia Woolf", brings us the biography of Edith Warton by interweaving the classic American fiction writer's life with the evolution of her writing. [Biographies & Memoirs]
...Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Thu, 05/10/2007 - 13:07 — AnonymousHermione Lee, the author of "Virginia Woolf", brings us the biography of Edith Warton by interweaving the classic American fiction writer's life with the evolution of her writing. [Biographies & Memoirs]
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