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About a Mountain
Av John D'Agata
Häftad, 2011
269 kr
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When John D'Agata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a story about the federal government's plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain; the result is a startling portrait that compels a reexamination of the future of human life.
Lifespan of a Fact
Häftad, 2012
223 kr
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How negotiable is a fact? In 2003, after publishing his book of experimental essays, Halls of Fame, John D’Agata was approached by Harper’s magazine to write an essay for them, one that was eventually rejected due to disagreements related to its fact checking. That essay which eventually became the …
Lifespan of a Fact
Now a Broadway Play
E-bok, 2019
44 kr
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NOW A BROADWAY PLAY STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE ''Provocative, maddening and compulsively readable'' Maggie Nelson In 2003, American essayist John D''Agata wrote a piece for Harper''s about Las Vegas''s alarmingly high suicide rate, after a sixteen-year-old boy had thrown himself from the top of the …
Halls of Fame
Essays
Av John D'Agata
E-bok, 2013
171 kr
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"John D''Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold." —Guy Davenport, Harper''s John D''Agata journeys the endless corridors of America''s myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and …
The Lost Origins of the Essay
Häftad, 2009
348 kr
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An expansive and exhilarating world tour of innovative nonfiction writing I think the reason we've never pinpointed the real beginning to this genre is because we've never agreed on what the genre even is. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience art? …
