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A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography.
What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is history an excuse? What makes women artists monstrous? And what should we do with beauty, and with our unruly feelings about it?
Claire Dederer explores these questions and our relationships with the artists whose behaviour disrupts our ability to apprehend the work on its own terms. She interrogates her own responses and her own behaviour, and she pushes the fan, and the listener, to do the same. Morally wise, deeply considered and sharply written, Monsters gets to the heart of one of our most pressing conversations.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Monsters is an incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time. It's thrillingly sharp, appropriately doubtful, and more fun than you would believe, given the pressing seriousness of the subject matter. Claire Dederer's mind is a wonder, her erudition too; I now want her to apply them to everything I'm interested in so I can think about them differently." (Nick Hornby)
"An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life. This timely book inhabits both the marvellous and the monstrous with generosity and wit." (Jenny Offill)
"A blisteringly erudite and entertaining read. Dederer holds the moral ambiguity of her subject matter, landing her arguments with precision and flair. It's a book that deserves to be widely read and will provoke many conversations." (Nathan Filer)
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No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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I Love the Bones of You
- De: Christopher Eccleston
- Narrado por: Christopher Eccleston
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 120
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Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father Ronnie. In I Love The Bones Of You, Eccleston unveils a vivid portrait of a relationship that has shaped his entire career trajectory, mirroring and defining his own highs and lows, from stage and screen triumph to breakdown, anorexia, self-doubt, and a deep belief in the basic principles of access and equality denied to generations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A kinder view of a loved one
- De Robin Casey en 11-03-19
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Letters to a Young Artist
- De: Anna Deavere Smith
- Narrado por: Anna Deavere Smith
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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From "the most exciting individual in American theater" ( Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great advice for artists of any age.
- De S. Barker en 10-30-17
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- De: Maggie Nelson
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 55
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just great
- De Kristi Strong en 12-14-21
De: Maggie Nelson
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- De: Alicia Elliott
- Narrado por: Kyla Garcia
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent, visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas experienced by her so many Native people. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and White communities - a divide reflected in her own family - and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important and powerful, but narrator ruined it
- De barbara en 01-19-24
De: Alicia Elliott
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Batman Unauthorized
- Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City
- De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, Leah Wilson - editor
- Narrado por: Colby Elliott
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Compiled by a veteran writer of the comic series, this collection of essays explores Batman’s motivations and actions, as well as those of his foes. Batman is a creature of the night, more about vengeance than justice, more plagued by doubts than full of self-assurance, and more darkness than light. He has no superpowers, just skill, drive, and a really well-made suit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eccentric Essays Batman!
- De arthur m ball en 10-24-14
De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, y otros
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Autism in Heels
- The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
- De: Jennifer Cook O'Toole
- Narrado por: Jennifer O'Toole
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, she exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing the autism script with wit, candor, passion, and power. Her journey is one of reverse-self-discovery not only as an Aspie but - more importantly - as a thoroughly modern woman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat relatable but not really.
- De M Bond en 02-26-23
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Last Days at Hot Slit
- The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
- De: Andrea Dworkin, Johanna Fateman - editor and introduction, Amy Scholder - editor
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. Last Days at Hot Slit brings together selections from Dworkin's work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she's best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. It includes “Goodbye to All This” (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect reading
- De Paul en 04-02-20
De: Andrea Dworkin, y otros
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art as few critics have.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
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The Second Mountain
- How People Move from the Prison of Self to the Joy of Commitment
- De: David Brooks
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,744
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,482
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Author David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pursue meaning, reject hyper-individualism
- De Adam Shields en 05-07-19
De: David Brooks
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Cunt (20th Anniversary Edition)
- De: Inga Muscio
- Narrado por: Inga Muscio
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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In this fully revised anniversary edition of the classic testament to women's empowerment, Muscio explores with candidness and humor such traditional feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and prostitution with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women. Sending out a call for every woman to be the "Cuntlovin' Ruler of Her Sexual Universe", Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing the provocative and celebrating womanhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De Paula Daniels en 07-28-19
De: Inga Muscio
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Disfigured
- On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
- De: Amanda Leduc
- Narrado por: Amanda Barker
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed bag
- De Kim Padan en 01-18-22
De: Amanda Leduc
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Philip Roth
- The Biography
- De: Blake Bailey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 31 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost 10 years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth's own breathtakingly candid confessions. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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moved
- De Michael en 08-18-21
De: Blake Bailey
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- De: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, y otros
- Narrado por: Alexander Neubauer
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010), invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets. Full of compelling, in-depth conversation about manuscripts and drafts by the poets themselves, plus readings of the finished poems, these historic recordings offer one of the most detailed portraits ever produced of how poems are actually made.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De d en 08-28-16
De: Lucille Clifton, y otros
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Story
- Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
- De: Robert McKee
- Narrado por: Robert McKee
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,210
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,466
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,431
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese, and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives, and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Only 5 Chapters
- De Stephen Buck en 02-15-11
De: Robert McKee
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How Fiction Works
- De: James Wood
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Ranging widely from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings, Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. He sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision, resulting in nothing less than a philosophy of the novel, which has won critical acclaim nationwide, from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times Book Review.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Educational!
- De Don en 05-04-09
De: James Wood