Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839) is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States.
23 Ebooks by David Shields
Nicholas Herbemont: Pioneering American Wine
This volume collects the most important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States. Included are hi …
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€40.99
Mary Telfair: Mary Telfair to Mary Few
This volume gathers nearly half of some 300 letters written by Mary Telfair of Savannah to her best friend, Mary Few of New York. Telfair was born in 1790 to a wealthy, prominent, slaveholding Savann …
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€54.99
David Shields & Elizabeth Cooperman: Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter
Life Is Short Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of …
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€20.99
David Shields: Das Dumme am Leben ist, dass man eines Tages tot ist
Das Leben ist einfach, tragisch und schön», schreibt David Shields. Der Gedanke, dass alles, was lebt, vergänglich ist, kann auf eine seltsame Weise befreiend sein. Dieses Buch erzählt davon, wie …
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€8.49
David Shields: Body Politic
In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an …
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€16.42
Shane Salerno & David Shields: Salinger
An instant New York Times bestseller, this explosive biography (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is as close as well ever get to being inside J.D. …
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€14.07
Samantha Matthews & David Shields: That Thing You Do With Your Mouth
In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers-in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and …
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€13.75
David Shields: Reality Hunger
Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of ‘reality’ into their …
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€14.99
David Shields: The Thing About Life Is That One Day You”ll Be Dead
Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father”s vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being. Weaving tog …
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€14.99
David Shields: Hambre de realidad
‘Un manifiesto escrito en nombre de una generación en alza de escritores y artistas, una manera de ‘comenzar de nuevo’ en el siglo XXI, un ataque frontal a las convenciones genéricas (…) David …
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€9.99
Bradford Morrow: Nocturnals
This spring 2019 edition of Bard College’s literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs. Scheherazade famously spun stories for a …
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€18.70
David Shields & Bradford Morrow: The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn’t. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being …
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€15.99
David Shields & Matthew Vollmer: Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, ‘Found’ Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives. In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction man …
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€17.99
Elizabeth Hand & Bradford Morrow: Other Aliens
New writings on our fear of—and fascination with—the “other” from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. …
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€11.20
Bradford Morrow: Cabinet of Curiosity
Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Diane Ackerman, and more explore the double-edged sword of curiosity . . . Curiosity is as central to life as breathing. And like breath itself, when it …
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€18.80
Bradford Morrow: Sanctuary
Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited. Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from …
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€18.77
