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A sharply personal and expansive essay collection dedicated to the strange and absurd beauty of horror films, exploring the complications of gender, the insidiousness of class ascension, and the latent violence hidden in our own uncanny reflections.

En este segundo tomo de Cuchara y memoria, que abarca de la langosta al zapato, el autor continúa hurgando en su historia personal y en la memoria colectiva para revivir aquellas comidas que le han provocado asombro, nostalgia, risas y, también, más de una decepción memorable. Aquí no hay reglas ni jueces: cada quien tiene su forma de «agarrar el taco». Y lo importante, insiste, no es solo recordar, sino divertirse en el camino. Este libro es una invitación a leer con hambre y a compartir el viaje de un autor que escribe con honestidad, humor y un enorme amor por la comida.

From legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our “post-truth” era? For over half a century...

"私はここからどう老いていこう？自分自身が最も心地よく過ごせる「エイジングの流派」を、見つけたい。"

In "Wie fühlst du dich?" geht es um die Erkenntnis, dass man Gefühl und Vernunft nicht einfach trennen kann, vor allem aber um unsere Eigenständigkeit, um die Fähigkeit, sich zu wehren gegen jene, die uns so gern am Nasenring unserer Affekte durch die Welt führen würden. Überlassen wir unsere Gefühle nicht den Falschen, sondern fragen wir uns lieber selbst: Wie gehen wir mit der Angst um, die uns alle in Atem hält?

Love Death + Explosives: Thomas Pynchon’s Polipsychology is an essay that addresses the postmodern angle in the reclusive titular author’s writing, challenging listeners to decontextualize the interpretive lens for the literal.

Alter ist kein Ende, sondern ein Neubeginn. Das zeigen Frauen wie Vivian Gornick, Jane Campbell, Carmen Herrera, Lucinda Childs oder Ulrike Edschmid. Manche haben sich neu erfunden, andere haben immer weitergemacht und schaffen im hohen Alter dann den internationalen Durchbruch als Künstlerinnen und Schriftstellerinnen. Sie sind mutig, fordern nichts ein, aber nehmen sich, was sie brauchen. Ein Hörbuch über Freiheit im Alter jenseits gesellschaftlicher Klischees.

Why I Love Horror is a captivating anthology and heartfelt tribute to the horror genre featuring essays from several of the most celebrated contemporary horror writers including, Grady Hendrix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Malerman, Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Rachel Harrison.

A brand-new collection of 40 original music stories from award-winning storyteller Alex M. Stein. These stories, memories, essays, parables, and passionate rants about records, concerts, heartache, radio, love, and life's unexpected victories take you to school dances, used-record stores, packed concert halls, and empty recording studios to explore the ways music seeps into our bones and propels us through life.

本気で〈わかりたい〉君へ。意識の謎、ヒトと環境、日本の未来。知らない世界が見えてくる。「本当に本人のものになった『他人の考え』は、すでに本人のものだというしかない」

An Ojibwe elder once counseled Nerburn to "always teach by stories, because stories lodge deep in the heart.'' Using skills learned from Native storytellers as well as a deep reverence for the world's spiritual traditions, Nerburn takes us to an Ojibwe burial, down lonely winter roads, and into landscapes where trees have presence and the earth is made alive by the mystical power of water and light.

抱腹絶倒の青春エッセイの金字塔。続編が待望の新装版で登場！　防波堤に寝転びほろ酔い気分で夜空のUFOを見物したり、キャンプ中に鮎を30匹食べる羽目になったり……。

数々のベストセラーを生み出してきた森沢明夫の伝説的名作が帰ってきた。抱腹絶倒の青春エッセイの金字塔、待望の新装版が登場！

林真理子さん阿川佐和子さん絶賛のエッセイ◎林真理子さん驚嘆大絶賛！天才を母に持ったことの喜劇と悲劇を越えて、さらにブラックさえほの見えるこの本、とにかく面白い。母もすごいが娘たちも負けてはいない。

Transcendence for Beginners examines life writing and philosophy across certain European and Indian traditions, exploring questions of childhood and mortality, art and religion, beauty and loss. Informed by her experience as a biographer of Søren Kierkegaard and George Eliot as well as her own life, Clare Carlisle asks what one human existence can reveal, and how writing can transmit its truth.

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives - from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden-age detective novels to avant-garde poetry.

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child’s first-ever autobiographical collection. From urgently scribbling out his debut Killing Floor in pencil (the stub of which he still owns), to taking a step back with Blue Moon, and everything in between, here are 24 honest, witty and wise personal reflections on his life and work, crafted across decades.

Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon.

Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith’s conversations in the wake of the 2024 election, this is a collection of poems, essays, and visual art on what we—individually and collectively—can hold onto, and what we can work towards. In times of difficulty, with a government working against its own people, we must turn to our friends and loved ones to provide context, language, energy, and hope. The People’s Project offers a range of perspectives, drawing wisdom from their communities and histories.

In this startlingly original, deeply irreverent cultural history, Ruby Tandoh traces that transformation, exposing how cult cookbooks, bad TV, visionary restaurants, and new social media have all wildly overhauled our appetites.