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A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern lifeâand a wink of the eye toU and I, Nicholson Bakerâs classic book about John Updikeâby an award-winning author called âwonderfully brightâ by The New York Times Book Review.Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker published U and I, the fretful and handwringingâbut also groundbreakingâtale of his literary relationship with John Updike. U and I inspired a whole sub-genre of engaging, entertaining writing about reading, but what no story of this type has ever done is tell its tale from the moment of conception, that moment when you realize that there is a writer out there in the world that you must readâso you read them. B & Me is that story, the story of J.C. Hallman discovering and reading Nicholson Baker, and discovering himself in the process. Our relationship to books in the digital age, the role of art in an increasingly commodified world, the power great writing has to change us, these are at the core of Hallman's investigation of Bakerâquestions he's grappled with, values he's come to doubt. But in reading Baker's work, Hallman discovers the key to overcoming the malaise that has been plaguing him, through the books themselves and what he finds and contemplates in his attempts to understand them and their enigmatic author: sex, book jackets, an old bed and breakfast, love, Monica Lewinsky, Paris, marriage, more sex, the logistics of libraries. In the spirit of Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage and Elif Batuman's The Possessed, B & Me is literary self-archaeology: a funny, irreverent, incisive story of one reader's desperate quest to restore passion to literature, and all the things he learns along the way.
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9781451682007 | Simon & Schuster, March 10, 2015, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern lifeâand a wink of the eye toU and I, Nicholson Bakerâs classic book about John Updikeâby an award-winning author called âwonderfully brightâ by The New York Times Book Review.
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9781451682014 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 29, 2016), cover price $16.00
Product Description: Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers. Literary types know Henry James; psychologists, philosophers, and religion scholars know William James. In reality, the brothers' minds were inseparable, as the more than eight hundred letters they wrote to each other reveal...read more
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9781609381516, titled "Wm & H'ry: Literature, Love, and the Letters Between Wiliam & Henry James" | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers.
Product Description: In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about âPleistocene Rewilding,â a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered âmegafauna.â The plan sounded utterly utopian, but Hallman liked the idea as much as the scientists didâperhaps because he had grown up on a street called Utopia Road in a master-planned community in Southern California...read more
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9780312378578 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, August 3, 2010), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In 2005, J.
Product Description: The essays in The Story About the Story Vol. II chart a trajectory that digs deep into the past and aims toward a future in which literature can play a new and more profound role in how we think, read, live, and write. In the second volume of The Story About the Story, editor J...read more
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9781935639688 | Tin House Books, September 24, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The essays in The Story About the Story Vol.
9780980243697 | Tin House Books, September 29, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: With essays that are poignant, smart, suggestive, intellectual, funny, sassy, scathing, laudatory, wistful, and hopeful, THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY offers lessons from a remarkable range of celebrated authors that amount to an invaluable course on both how to write and read well.
Product Description: Full of cryptic twists, philosophical quandaries, and fabulist turns, J. C. Hallmanâs stories elucidate an intuitive understanding of the human condition. An alienated young man discovers the meaning of love in the pages of the biology textbook The Conjugal Cyst, and in the arms of two increasingly unavailable older nurses...read more
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9781571310743 | Original edition (Milkweed Editions, May 1, 2009), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Full of cryptic twists, philosophical quandaries, and fabulist turns, J.
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9781400061723 | Random House Inc, May 16, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A multifaceted study of religion in America journeys to the offbeat corners of the nation's spiritual life, ranging from Druidic ceremonies and dog-raising Orthodox monks to Christian wrestlers and Satanists, guided by the life and work of philosopher William James.
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9780312272937 | Thomas Dunne Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An exploration of chess enthusiam throughout the world notes the contributions of Kalmykia dictator Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, New York's legendary chess district, and the Princeton Math Department.
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9780312333966 | Reprint edition (Griffin, November 30, 2004), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: An exploration of chess enthusiam throughout the world notes the contributions of Kalmykia dictator Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, New York's legendary chess district, the Princeton Math Department, and more.
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