Camii's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:50:31 -0700 60 Camii's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One]]> 415595
It is conventional wisdom that there is one true path in life for each of us. But what about those with a wide array of interests, a dynamic curiosity about the world, and an ever-renewing wellspring of passions? Margaret Lobenstine calls these people “Renaissance Souls,� and in this groundbreaking book, she offers a life-planning strategy in tune with their dynamic, change-loving personalities. Renaissance Souls often get stuck, moving from entry-level job to entry-level job, degree to degree, or hobby to hobby, unwilling to settle on just one thing to do “for the rest of my life.� Or, after achieving success in one field, they yearn for new challenges and begin looking around for something different. Yet they are also afraid that if they pursue their changing interests, they will have to give up on financial security, becoming “a jack of all trades and master of none.�

The Renaissance Soul , the first book devoted to this personality type, not only shows that it’s possible to design a successful, vibrant life built on multiple passions, but also gives readers the practical advice to do so. Lobenstine arms the reader with powerful life-design strategies, including how

*Understand the exciting and powerful difference between choice and focus

*Transform your day job so that it carries your dreams forward

*Manage your time the Renaissance Soul way

*Thrive on many interests without feeling scattered

*Get paid for your passions

*Learn a new field without going back to school

*Get inspired by Renaissance Souls from ancient times to the present, from Leonardo da Vinci to Ben Franklin to Oprah Winfrey

Stocked with creative exercises, relevant resources, and interviews with successful Renaissance Souls, this profoundly inspiring guide will show readers the way to a richer, more fulfilling life—big enough to embrace all their dreams.]]> 320 Margaret Lobenstine 0767920880 Camii 0 to-read 3.90 2006 The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One
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]]> Girl Meets Boy 1527854
Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold.

It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.

Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.]]> 161 Ali Smith 1841958697 Camii 0 to-read 3.80 Girl Meets Boy
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]]> La muerte del autor 21894417 5 Roland Barthes Camii 0 to-read 4.18 1967 La muerte del autor
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]]> <![CDATA[Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 92)]]> 573813 160 James Hollis 0919123937 Camii 0 to-read 4.48 2000 Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 92)
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]]> <![CDATA[Just Friends: On the Joy, Power and Influence of Friendship]]> 198820423 0 Gyan Yankovich 1761152807 Camii 0 to-read 4.04 2024 Just Friends: On the Joy, Power and Influence of Friendship
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]]> Great Big Beautiful Life 218559595 Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.]]> 432 Emily Henry Camii 0 to-read, rom-com-world 4.20 2025 Great Big Beautiful Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Cuerpo de mujer, sabiduría de mujer: Una guía para la salud física y emocional]]> 10852322 1056 Christiane Northrup 8479537485 Camii 0 to-read 4.48 1994 Cuerpo de mujer, sabiduría de mujer: Una guía para la salud física y emocional
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]]> <![CDATA[Writing for the Magazines: -1918]]> 205301167 292 Joseph Berg Esenwein 1112276467 Camii 0 writing, currently-reading 0.0 Writing for the Magazines: -1918
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]]> <![CDATA[Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them]]> 39934 New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail. And, most important, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted.]]> 302 Francine Prose 0060777052 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.76 2006 Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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]]> A Writer's Diary 14948
Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are relevant to the raw material of her work, and, finally, comments on the books she was reading. The first entry included here is dated 1918 and the last, three weeks before her death in 1941. Between these points of time unfolds the private world—the anguish, the triumph, the creative vision—of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

� A Writer’s Diary . . . is Virginia Woolf . . . The whole vibrates with the ups and downs of a passionate relationship . . . in the intensities, variations, alarms and excursions, panics and exaltations of her relationship to her art.”� New York Times Book Review

Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf.]]> 355 Virginia Woolf 0156027917 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.16 1953 A Writer's Diary
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]]> On Self-Respect 8626 2 Joan Didion Camii 0 to-read 4.39 1968 On Self-Respect
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]]> <![CDATA[We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction]]> 426
Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the “contemporary wasteland� of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions–on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and “compassionate conservatism,� among others–show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.]]> 1122 Joan Didion 0307264874 Camii 0 to-read 4.49 2006 We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
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]]> <![CDATA[South and West: From a Notebook]]> 32842454 The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.

Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention. She writes about the stifling heat, the almost viscous pace of life, the sulfurous light, and the preoccupation with race, class, and heritage she finds in the small towns they pass through.

And from a different notebook: the "California Notes" that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976. Though Didion never wrote the piece, watching the trial and being in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the city, its social hierarchy, the Hearsts, and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here, too, is the beginning of her thinking about the West, its landscape, the western women who were heroic for her, and her own lineage, all of which would appear later in her acclaimed 2003 book, Where I Was From.]]> 160 Joan Didion 1524732796 Camii 0 to-read 3.69 2017 South and West: From a Notebook
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion]]> 23014575 In New York Times bestselling The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life.

Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well-known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her most-notable work includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Run River, and The Year of Magical Thinking, a National Book Award winner and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, it dealt with the grief surrounding Didion after the loss of her husband and daughter. Daugherty takes readers on a journey back through time, following a young Didion in Sacramento, through to her adult life as a writer interviewing those who know and knew her personally, while maintaining a respectful distance from the reclusive literary great. The Last Love Song reads like fiction; lifelong fans, and readers learning about Didion for the first time will be enthralled with this impressive tribute.]]> 752 Tracy Daugherty 1250010020 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.67 2015 The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
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]]> Blue Nights 10252302
Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?� Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.

Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.]]> 208 Joan Didion 0307267679 Camii 0 to-read 3.92 2011 Blue Nights
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]]> The White Album 421 The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.]]> 224 Joan Didion 0374532079 Camii 0 to-read 4.06 1979 The White Album
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]]> The Year of Magical Thinking 7815
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."]]> 227 Joan Didion 1400078431 Camii 0 to-read 3.94 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking
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]]> Slouching Towards Bethlehem 424 The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.

It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.

It contains Didion's famous essay, "Goodbye to All That".]]> 238 Joan Didion Camii 0 to-read, fiction, writing 4.20 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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]]> <![CDATA[Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It]]> 30556551 There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this:

NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T.

Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional.

From Chapter Four:

“When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with ev­ery sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?"

]]> 191 Steven Pressfield 1936891506 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.20 2016 Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It
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]]> <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice]]> 31371317 88 Colum McCann 1443453161 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.23 2017 Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
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]]> <![CDATA[[To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction] [By: Lopate, Phillip] [February, 2013]]]> 149306163 0 unknown author Camii 0 to-read, writing 0.0 [To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction] [By: Lopate, Phillip] [February, 2013]
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction]]> 13641974 Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction.

Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction writers, for models and instruction. They talk about narrative strategies (and about how to find a story, sometimes in surprising places), about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer. They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language. And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts. Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing.

Good Prose—like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style�is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike. This wise and useful book is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one.]]> 195 Tracy Kidder 1400069750 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.88 2013 Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
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]]> Let Me Tell You What I Mean 53308149
Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous; a visit to San Simeon; being rejected by Stanford; dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home; and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Here too is a 1976 piece from the New York Times magazine on "Why I Write"; a piece about short stories from New West in 1978; and from The New Yorker, a piece on Hemingway from 1998, and on Martha Stewart from 2000. Each one is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.]]> 149 Joan Didion 059331848X Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.85 2021 Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present]]> 27432 The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.]]> 777 Phillip Lopate 038542339X Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.21 1994 The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
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]]> <![CDATA[On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)]]> 57229750
So you’ve just finished writing something? Congratulations! Now revise it. Because revision is about getting from good to better, and it’s only finished when you decide to stop. But where to begin? In On Revision , William Germano shows authors how to take on the most critical stage of writing rewriting it.

For more than twenty years, thousands of writers have turned to Germano for his insider’s take on navigating the world of publishing. A professor, author, and veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers need to Revising is not just correcting typos. Revising is about listening and seeing again. Revising is a rethinking of the principles from the ground up to understand why the writer is doing something, why they’re going somewhere, and why they’re taking the reader along with them.

On Revision steps back to take in the big picture, showing authors how to hear their own writing voice and how to reread their work as if they didn’t write it. On Revision will show you how to know when your writing is actually done—and, until it is, what you need to do to get it there.
]]> 208 William Germano 022641065X Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.94 On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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]]> <![CDATA[Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process]]> 18194765 208 John McPhee Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.05 2013 Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
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]]> <![CDATA[What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]]> 2195464
Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.]]> 188 Haruki Murakami Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.87 2007 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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]]> <![CDATA[Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration]]> 116187 256 Warren Bennis 0201339897 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.74 1997 Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
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]]> <![CDATA[Here But Not Here: A Love Story]]> 131218159
"All enduring love between two people, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically normal to the couple immersed in it, so I would have to say that I had an intrinsically normal life for over four decades with William Shawn. . . . I have a lasting sense of the normalcy of it all.It was a normalcy that Bill Shawn was able to create for himself and for me against all normal odds."

Shawn was married, yet Ross and Shawn created a home together a dozen blocks south of the Shawns' apartment, raised a child, and lived with discretion. Their lives intertwined from the 1950s until Shawn's death, in 1992. Ross describes how they met and the intense connection between them; how Shawn worked with some of the best writers of the period; how, to escape their developing liaison, Ross moved to Hollywood, and there wrote the famous pieces that became Picture, the classic story of the making of a movie--John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage--only to return to New York and to the relationship. The love of Shawn and Ross for each other made it impossible for them ever to part.
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This book is a gem, an exquisitely told real-life story more potent than fiction.]]> 240 Lillian Ross Camii 0 to-read, writing 0.0 1998 Here But Not Here: A Love Story
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]]> Anna: The Biography 59366098 This definitive biography of Anna Wintour follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would—with singular and legendary focus—become one of the most powerful people in media.

As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, an influential newspaper editor, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor-in-chief of Vogue, she never looked back.

Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a trendy boutique in London—an experience that would be the first of many defeats. Undeterred, she found work in the competitive world of magazines, eventually embarking on a journey to New York and a battle to ascend, no matter who or what stood in her way. Once she was crowned editor-in-chief of Vogue—in one of the stormiest transitions in fashion magazine history—she continued the fight to retain her enviable position, ultimately rising to dominate all of Condé Nast.

Based on extensive interviews with Anna Wintour’s closest friends and collaborators, including some of the biggest names in fashion, journalist Amy Odell has crafted the most revealing portrait of Wintour ever published. Weaving Anna’s personal story into a larger narrative about the hierarchical dynamics of the fashion industry and the complex world of Condé Nast, Anna charts the relentless ambition of the woman who would become an icon.]]> 464 Amy Odell 1982122633 Camii 0 to-read, nonfictionnnn 3.77 2022 Anna: The Biography
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]]> D.V. 98047 216 Diana Vreeland 0306812630 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.99 1984 D.V.
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]]> The Vogue Factor 17453695 240 Kirstie Clements 0522862438 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.31 2013 The Vogue Factor
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]]> <![CDATA[Fashion Journalism: History, Theory, and Practice]]> 34055559
Exploring what sets fashion journalism apart from other forms of journalistic writing, the book features a wide range of global fashion case studies, from Carmel Snow's reporting on Dior's 'New Look' to 1970s responses to Yves Saint Laurent, and Diana Vreeland's role as a fashion editor. Through a series of engaging exercises, you will learn how to find inspiration, carry out successful research, structure your work logically, use a style appropriate to your readership, and to make the leap from descriptive writing to informed analysis and criticism.

Engaging and clearly written, Fashion Journalism examines how recent technological developments are shaping and driving fashion journalism, and delves into the theory and practice of writing about fashion.]]> 192 Sanda Miller 1472520173 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.40 Fashion Journalism: History, Theory, and Practice
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]]> <![CDATA[The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever]]> 271509 352 Teri Agins 0060958200 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.88 1999 The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
author: Teri Agins
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> Fashion Journalism 13715826 280 Julie Bradford 041568661X Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.12 2013 Fashion Journalism
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]]> <![CDATA[Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice]]> 18665485
Integrating history and theory, this innovative book explains the development of fashion writing, the theoretical basis on which it sits, and how it might be improved and applied. Through concise snapshot case studies, top international scholars McNeil and Miller analyse fashion excerpts in relation to philosophical ideas and situate them within historical contexts. Case studies include classic examples of fashion writing, such as Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar and Richard Martin on Karl Lagerfeld, as well as contemporary examples such as Suzy Menkes and the blogger Tavi.

Accessibly written, Fashion Writing and Criticism enables readers to understand, assess and make value judgments about the fascinating and changeable field of fashion. It is an invaluable text for students and researchers alike, studying fashion, journalism, history and media studies.]]> 168 Peter McNeil 0857854461 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.56 2014 Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice
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]]> <![CDATA[Writer for Hire, 101 Secrets to Freelance Success]]> 13739581 Awarded the -Outstanding Book Award- in the service/self-help category for 2013 from the ASJA (The American Society of Journalists and Authors)!

There's no shortage of books on crafting book proposals, writing novels, overcoming writer's block, and getting in touch with one's muse. But what about a book for writers who simply want to earn a regular paycheck? Writer for Hire is just the wisdom full- and part-time freelancers need. Author Kelly James-Enger details:


101 secrets to success, organized into five overarching strategies. You'll be able to implement what you learn immediately.
Invaluable advice on managing deadlines, querying effectively, working with clients, handling taxes, invoices, and more.
Strategies for getting more writing gigs, including networking (in-person and online), establishing yourself as an expert, working more efficiently under tight deadlines, and handling rejection with confidence
James-Enger looks at the -whole freelancer, - addressing both the craft and business of freelancing.]]> 224 Kelly James-Enger 1599635496 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.11 2012 Writer for Hire, 101 Secrets to Freelance Success
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]]> <![CDATA[The Freelance Writer's Handbook]]> 884886 232 Andrew Crofts 0749927631 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.20 2002 The Freelance Writer's Handbook
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]]> <![CDATA[Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)]]> 10140746 From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City, narrative nonfiction has come into its own. Yet writers looking for guidance on reporting and writing true stories have had few places to turn for advice. Now in Storycraft, Jack Hart, a former managing editor of the Oregonian who guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication, delivers what will certainly become the definitive guide to the methods and mechanics of crafting narrative nonfiction.

Hart covers what writers in this genre need to know, from understanding story theory and structure, to mastering point of view and such basic elements as scene, action, and character, to drafting, revising, and editing work for publication. Revealing the stories behind the stories, Hart brings readers into the process of developing nonfiction narratives by sharing tips, anecdotes, and recommendations he forged during his decades-long career in journalism. From there, he expands the discussion to other well-known writers to show the broad range of texts, styles, genres, and media to which his advice applies. With examples that draw from magazine essays, book-length nonfiction narratives, documentaries, and radio programs, Storycraft will be an indispensable resource for years to come.

]]> 266 Jack R. Hart 0226318141 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.24 2011 Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2012]]> 15857314
Essays include Lawrence Wright (The New Yorker) on the history of Scientology and recent challenges to its mission and methods; Matthieu Aikins (The Atlantic) on the shady dealings and shifting sands of the war in Afghanistan; the late Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair) on the physical and emotional toll of cancer; and Joel Stein (Time) on the propensity for politicians and other popular figures to get into trouble on the Internet. John Jeremiah Sullivan (GQ) immerses himself in David Foster Wallace's curious legacy; Tim Crothers (ESPN) follows the inspiring story of Phiona Mutesi, a chess prodigy from the slums of Uganda; Chris Ballard (Sports Illustrated) recounts Dewayne Dedmon's struggle to reconcile his faith with a career in sports; Wesley Yang (New York) explores the pressure on Asian Americans to succeed and the psychological and cultural consequences when they don't; and Luke Dittrich (Esquire) shares the raw experiences of those who survived one of 2011's worst natural disasters: the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri. The sparkling dialogue and vividly imagined, eccentric characters of Karen Russell's award-winning short story, "The Hox River Window" (Zoetrope: All-Story), rounds out the collection.]]> 544 0231162235 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.10 2012 The Best American Magazine Writing 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2013]]> 19359355 A perennial hit, our Best American Magazine Writing chooses from the nominees and winners of the coveted National Magazine Awards. Selections belong to the categories of public interest reporting, features, criticism, commentary, and fiction. This year's selections include Iraqi War veteran Brian Mockenhaupt ( Byliner) on modern combat in Afghanistan and its ability to both forge and challenge friendships; Mac McClelland's ( GQ) on his nightmarish stint picking and packing at an online shipping warehouse; Daniel Alarcón ( Harper's Magazine) on the strange social and political dynamics of Peru's most infamous prison; Melissadel Bosque March ( Texas Observer) on the secret dealings of Mexico's deadliest smuggling corridor; Ta-Nehisi Coates ( The Atlantic) on the complex racial terrain traversed by African American politicans; and Frank Rich ( New York) on the late Nora Ephron and her invaluable contribution to American culture.

]]> 560 Sid Holt 0231537069 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.81 2013 The Best American Magazine Writing 2013
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2015]]> 28191642 This year’s anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards includes Ta-Nehisi Coates’s much-discussed and debated "The Case For Reparations" (The Atlantic), Amanda Hess’s explosive report on Internet sexual harassment (Pacific Standard), John Jeremiah Sullivan’s account of the intergenerational effort to solve one of American music’s greatest mysteries (New York Times Magazine), and Pamela Colloff’s haunting profile of the Texas state employee assigned to witness close to three hundred executions (Texas Monthly). The anthology also features articles chosen from Chris Offutt’s savory food writing (Oxford American), Rebecca Traister’s acerbic musings on gender politics (New Republic), and Jerry Saltz’s fearless art and architectural criticism (New York). Roger Angell offers humorous reflections on life at ninety (The New Yorker); Jody Rosen mourns the dying art of being a London taxi driver who instinctually knows his route (New York Time Magazine); Jeff Sharlet exposes Russia’s unconscionable treatment of homosexuals (GQ); and Emily Yoffe reveals the unforeseen crimes committed in the struggle to address the college rape crisis (Slate). The collection concludes with a work of fiction by Haruki Murakami, who imaginatively plays with the legend of Scheherazade (New Yorker).]]> 482 Sid Holt Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.85 2016 The Best American Magazine Writing 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2018]]> 40265235
Responding to the overt racism of the Trump era, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “My President Was Black� ( Atlantic ) looks back at the meaning of Obama. Howard Bryant ( ESPN the Magazine ) and Bim Adewunmi ( Buzzfeed ) offer incisive columns on the intersections of pop culture, sports, race, and politics. In addition, David Wallace-Wells reveals the coming disaster of our climate-change-ravaged future ( New York ); Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham’s ESPN the Magazine reporting exposes the seamy sides of the NFL; Nina Martin and Renee Montagne investigate America’s shameful record on maternal mortality (NPR/ProPublica ); Ian Frazier asks “What Ever Happened to the Russian Revolution?� ( Smithsonian ); and Alex Mar considers “Love in the Time of Robots� ( Wired with Epic Magazine ). The collection concludes with Kristen Roupenian’s viral hit short story “Cat Person� ( New Yorker ).]]> 528 0231189990 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.09 2018 The Best American Magazine Writing 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2011]]> 12542339
The anthology contains Scott Horton's investigation into inmate suicides at Guant?namo Bay prison ( "Harper's Magazine"); Christopher Hitchens's wryly moving take on the politics of cancer ( "Vanity Fair"); Jonathan Van Meter's eye-opening portrait of Joan Rivers and her transgressive comedic genius ( "New York Magazine"); and Jonah Weiner's extraordinary musical biography of Kanye West, assembled from the artist's tweets and blog posts ( "Slate"). John Donvan and Caren Zucker describe the world's first autism case in "The Atlantic"; Atul Gawande shares the modern medical profession's poignant struggle with death and dying in "The New Yorker"; and Paul Theroux spins a thrilling tale in the "Virginia Quarterly Review" of a mad collector who acquires works of art only to destroy them. Read together or one at a time, these pieces exemplify the wholly immersive experience of well-crafted magazine writing.]]> 600 0231159404 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.21 2011 The Best American Magazine Writing 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2007]]> 1193908 This year's selection includes William Langewiesche's probing investigation in Vanity Fair of the slaughter of twenty-four Iraqis in Haditha; C. J. Chivers's chilling account in Esquire of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, which killed 331 people, 186 of them children; Susan Casey's revelation in Best Life of a virtually unknown, Texas-sized garbage dump resting at the bottom of the Pacific ocean; and Andrew Corsello's harrowing portrait in GQ of Robert Mugabe's mad rule and two men-a white farmer and a fiery black priest-who strive for forgiveness instead of hate.

The collection also includes Vanessa Grigoriadis's hilarious portrait of fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld in New York Magazine; Christopher Hitchens's profile of survivors of Agent Orange in Vanity Fair; Sandra Tsing Loh's coverage of the stay-at-home-mommy debate in the Atlantic Monthly; Paul Theroux's thoughts on the dangers of anthropomorphism and our misconceptions about birds in the Smithsonian; Janet Reitman's unraveling of the mysteries of Scientology in Rolling Stone; and the work of nine other exceptional writers.

]]> 520 0231143915 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.13 2007 The Best American Magazine Writing 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen]]> 25622752 The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.

Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage—comma faults, danglers, "who" vs. "whom," "that" vs. "which," compound words, gender-neutral language—and her clear explanations of how to handle them. Down-to-earth and always open-minded, she draws on examples from Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and the Lord's Prayer, as well as from The Honeymooners, The Simpsons, David Foster Wallace, and Gillian Flynn. She takes us to see a copy of Noah Webster's groundbreaking Blue-Back Speller, on a quest to find out who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of The New Yorker and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders.

Readers—and writers—will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise and witty new friend in love with language and alive to the glories of its use in America, even in the age of autocorrect and spell-check. As Norris writes, "The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around."]]> 240 Mary Norris 0393352145 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.64 2015 Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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]]> <![CDATA[The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft]]> 151523
The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountaineering expedition to Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year as a prison guard. Susan Orlean follows orchid fanciers to reveal an obsessive subculture few knew existed. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc spends nearly a decade reporting on a family in the South Bronx. And like their muckraking early twentieth-century precursors, they are drawn to the most pressing issues of the Alex Kotlowitz, Leon Dash, and William Finnegan to race and class; Ron Rosenbaum to the problem of evil; Michael Lewis to boom-and-bust economies; Richard Ben Cramer to the nitty gritty of politics. How do they do it? In these interviews, they reveal the techniques and inspirations behind their acclaimed works, from their felt-tip pens, tape recorders, long car rides, and assumed identities; to their intimate understanding of the way a truly great story unfolds.

Interviews
Gay Talese
Jane Kramer
Calvin Trillin
Richard Ben Cramer
Ted Conover
Alex Kotlowitz
Richard Preston
William Langewiesche
Eric Schlosser
Leon Dash
William Finnegan
Jonathan Harr
Jon Krakauer
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Michael Lewis
Susan Orlean
Ron Rosenbaum
Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Wright]]> 496 Robert S. Boynton 140003356X Camii 0 to-read, journalism 4.03 2005 The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
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]]> Me Talk Pretty One Day 4137 272 David Sedaris 0349113912 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.01 2000 Me Talk Pretty One Day
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]]> <![CDATA[Consider the Lobster and Other Essays]]> 6751
Contains: "Big Red Son," "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think," "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed," "Authority and American Usage," "The View from Mrs. Thompson's," "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," "Up, Simba," "Consider the Lobster," "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" and "Host."]]> 343 David Foster Wallace 0316156116 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.19 2005 Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation]]> 8600 209 Lynne Truss 1592402038 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.86 2003 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide]]> 533513 272 William E. Blundell 0452261589 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.09 1988 The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University]]> 252426 Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including:
� Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story
� Gay Talese on writing about private lives
� Malcolm Gladwell on the limits of profiles
� Nora Ephron on narrative writing and screenwriters
� Alma Guillermoprieto on telling the story and telling the truth
� Dozens of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists from the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more . . .

The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.

]]> 317 Mark Kramer 0452287553 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.07 2007 Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
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]]> <![CDATA[Writing Feature Stories: How to Research and Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles]]> 756965 304 Matthew Ricketson 1865087327 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.69 2004 Writing Feature Stories: How to Research and Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles
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]]> Magazine Writing 20788533 352 Christopher D. Benson 1136191216 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.67 2014 Magazine Writing
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]]> <![CDATA[Introduction to Magazine Writing]]> 3699587 320 Conrad C. Fink 0023375612 Camii 0 to-read, writing 5.00 1993 Introduction to Magazine Writing
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]]> <![CDATA[Writing Content, Mastering Magazine and Online Writing]]> 21281954 197 Roger W. Nielsen 0982035586 Camii 0 to-read, writing 5.00 2010 Writing Content, Mastering Magazine and Online Writing
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]]> <![CDATA[Magazine Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide for Success]]> 2780885 All magazine writers share a common goal--to sell their articles. Magazine Writing shows writers how to build articles and turn them into a saleable piece. They will learn to brainstorm an idea, road test it, and research it; query the article, structure it, and edit and revise it; and find magazines, print and online, appropriate for their article.
-Discusses ethics, including the Jayson Blair case, to show acceptable professional conduct.
-Illustrates common mistakes made during the writing process to help writers avoid common pitfalls and write cleaner, more professional articles.
-Looks at major article types including the personality profile, how-to, and first person narrative (illustrated with published examples).]]> 240 Nancy M. Hamilton 0205571255 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.17 2007 Magazine Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide for Success
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]]> <![CDATA[New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine]]> 4494214
Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades.

Covering subjects from “Radical Chic� to Gawker.com, written by some of the country’s most renowned authors, here are works that broke news, perfectly captured the moment, or set trends in motion. In New York Stories , Gloria Steinem (whose Ms. Magazine was introduced in New York ) broaches the subject of women’s liberation; Tom Wolfe coins “The Me Decade�; and Steve Fishman piercingly portrays the unwanted martyrdom of the 9/11 widows. Cutting edge features that invented terms like “brat pack� and “grup�; profiles of defining cultural figures including Joe Namath, Truman Capote, and long-shot presidential candidate Bill Clinton; and reports that inspired the acclaimed movies Saturday Night Fever, GoodFellas , and Grey Gardens –all are included in this one-of-a-kind compilation.

The writers who chronicled the times that began with Nixon’s campaign and end with Obama’s are at their best in New York Stories . It’s an irresistible anthology from a magazine that, like the city itself, is still making stars, setting standards, and going strong.]]> 624 New York Magazine 0812979923 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.13 2008 New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
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]]> <![CDATA[Uncovering the Secrets of Magazine Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction for Print and Internet Publication]]> 1788241 Nancy M. Hamilton 0205376312 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.33 2004 Uncovering the Secrets of Magazine Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction for Print and Internet Publication
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]]> Basic Magazine Writing 1586272 Barbara Kevles 0898790778 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.50 Basic Magazine Writing
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Guide to Magazine Article Writing]]> 226278 304 John M. Wilson 0898795478 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.09 1993 The Complete Guide to Magazine Article Writing
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]]> <![CDATA[Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing]]> 55168 320 Marc Smirnoff 1588180816 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.00 2002 Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2019]]> 45691895
Personal pieces consider the toll of mass incarceration, including Reginald Dwayne Betts’s “Getting Out� ( New York Times Magazine ); “This Place Is Crazy,� by John J. Lennon ( Esquire ); and Robert Wright’s “Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind� ( Marshall Project with Vice ). From the pages of the Atlantic and the New Yorker , writers and critics discuss prominent political Franklin Foer’s “American Hustler� explores Paul Manafort’s career of corruption; Jill Lepore recounts the emergence of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and Caitlin Flanagan and Doreen St. Félix reflect on the Kavanaugh hearings and #MeToo. Leslie Jamison crafts a portrait of the Museum of Broken Relationships ( Virginia Quarterly Review ), and Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B. Koehler ponder “The Art of Dying Well� ( 5280 ). A pair of never-before-published conversations illuminates the state of the American New Yorker writer Ben Taub speaks to Eric Sullivan of Esquire about pursuing a career as a reporter, alongside Taub’s piece investigating how the Iraqi state is fueling a resurgence of ISIS. And Karolina Waclawiak of BuzzFeed News interviews McSweeney’s editor Claire Boyle about challenges and opportunities for fiction at small magazines. That conversation is inspired by McSweeney’s winning the ASME Award for Fiction, which is celebrated here with a story by Lesley Nneka Arimah, a magical-realist tale charged with feminist allegory.]]> 480 Sid Holt 0231190018 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.19 2019 The Best American Magazine Writing 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Magazine Writing 2014]]> 22329517
Other essays include Wright Thompson's bittersweet profile of Michael Jordan's fifty-something second act ( "ESPN the Magazine"); Jean M. Twenge's revealing look at fertility myths and baby politics (The Atlantic); Janet Reitman's controversial study of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ( "Rolling Stone"); Luke Mogelson's harrowing experience accompanying asylum seekers on a potentially deadly sea voyage to Australia ( "New York Times Magazine"); Lisa Miller's poignant report from Newtown, Connecticut, as the town tries to cope with the aftermath of one of the nation's worst mass shootings ( "New York"); Emily Nussbaum's critiques of gender and politics on television ( "The New Yorker"); and Witold Rybczynski's poetic engagement with modern architecture ( "Architect"). The collection concludes with the award-winning poem "Elegies" by Kathleen Ossip ( "Poetry") and "The Embassy of Cambodia," a short story by Zadie Smith ( "The New Yorker").]]> 528 Sid Holt 0231169574 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.21 2014 The Best American Magazine Writing 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing: A Practical Guide to Selling Your Pitches, Crafting Strong Articles, & Earning More Bylines]]> 36800274
In The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing , accomplished freelance writer, author, and instructor Kerrie Flanagan demystifies the idea that writing for magazines is a difficult process meant only for those with journalism degrees.
Drawing from her 20 years as a freelance writer and instructor, Flanagan takes you step-by-step through the entire process, sharing her knowledge and experiences in a friendly, conversational way.

With more than a dozen sample articles, expert advice from magazine editors and successful freelance writers, practical tips on researching potential publications and instructions on crafting compelling query letters, you'll find the tools needed to write and publish magazine articles.

In this book you'll learn how

•Find and target ideas for the right magazine.
•Develop effective query letters to catch the attention of editors and land more assignments.
•Organize your writing life using the checklists and tools throughout the book.
•Understand and negotiate contracts.
•Write and sell personal essays to consumer, niche and trade magazines.

Whether your goal is to get your first byline or make the switch from part-time freelancer to full-time writer, The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing is your go-to resource for writing success.]]> 240 Kerrie L. Flanagan 1440351244 Camii 0 to-read, writing 4.30 Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing: A Practical Guide to Selling Your Pitches, Crafting Strong Articles, & Earning More Bylines
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]]> <![CDATA[Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing]]> 960895 Michelle Ruberg 1582973342 Camii 0 to-read, writing 3.58 Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing
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]]> <![CDATA[What's Your Dream?: Find Your Passion. Love Your Work. Build a Richer Life.]]> 218375973 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER � Kickstart your dream business and see it through to success with actionable advice and inspirational stories from entrepreneur, investor, YouTuber, and founder of HelpBnk Simon Squibb

From early on, we are taught that there's only one path to getting do well at school, get a certain kind of job, and avoid failure at all costs. We're so busy trying to follow these rules that we never stop and ask What's my purpose? Is my 9-5 really what I want to do? What kind of job or business do I really want to pursue? Do I have the power to make it happen? With Simon Squibb’s incisive new book, you can make it happen.

Simon Squibb is on a mission to help young entrepreneurs discover their passion and start their business. Drawing on the hard-won life lessons from Squibb’s years in the business world and his own personal life—from facing homelessness as a teenager to selling a multi-million pound business�What’s Your Dream? is the step-by-step guide to turn your dream venture into a reality. Squibb begins by providing a definition of a dream and continues on to introduce readers to a set of tools to build confidence and persevere through the barriers that stand in the way. Squibb will dissect the common pitfalls that block the way—being trapped by aspirations that aren’t true dreams, falling prey to popular myths that stop us from achieving our goals, giving into the fear that prevents us from taking action—and share the secrets to overcome them. Young entreprenuers will glean useful business insight, such

� how to assess risk level, understanding not to take risks indiscriminately but to take them well
� knowing how and when to quit so you can pivot and start again
� how to create a community of super fans who will purchase and advocate for all of your products
� how to grow your customers, and more

Achieving wealth shouldn’t mean sacrificing your dreams and passions. This book can show you how.]]> Simon Squibb Camii 0 currently-reading 3.93 What's Your Dream?: Find Your Passion. Love Your Work. Build a Richer Life.
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]]> <![CDATA[Writing for Magazines: A Beginner's Guide]]> 491240 240 Cheryl Sloan Wray 0072864915 Camii 0 to-read 2.94 1996 Writing for Magazines: A Beginner's Guide
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]]> <![CDATA[Writing Articles About the World Around You by Marcia Yudkin (1998-01-30)]]> 198345255 0 unknown author Camii 0 to-read 0.0 Writing Articles About the World Around You by Marcia Yudkin (1998-01-30)
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]]> Desolation Angels 10461
Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac's fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London. Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must "live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry." Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac.]]> 409 Jack Kerouac 1573225053 Camii 0 to-read 3.93 1958 Desolation Angels
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]]> <![CDATA[Plain Jayne (Friends First, #1)]]> 18666229 In Laura Drewry’s funny, heartwarming Loveswept debut, a man and a woman learn the hard way that a little bit of love makes staying friends a whole lot harder.

Worn out from the long drive back home, Jayne Morgan can only smirk at the irony: Of course the first person she sees from her old life is Nick Scott. Once best friends, they lost touch when Jayne left town at eighteen, but nothing could keep them apart forever. Jayne has returned to take over her grandmother’s bookstore, determined to put all her bittersweet memories and secret disappointments strictly in the past � until, that is, Nick insists she bunk at his place.

Nick never did care what people thought about having a girl for a best friend � or the “scandal� she caused by showing up to his wife’s funeral four years earlier � so he’s got no problem with the gossips now. Jayne was always the one person he could count on in his life. Now Nick is starting to realize that he never wants her to leave again... and that being “just friends� isn’t going to be enough anymore.

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title.]]> 336 Laura Drewry 0804177732 Camii 3 3.68 2014 Plain Jayne (Friends First, #1)
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
(front flap)]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Camii 0 econ, to-read 4.01 2005 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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]]> <![CDATA[The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)]]> 33648131
Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. It is a story of miracles and emotions that will stay with you forever.]]> 227 Nicholas Sparks Camii 0 rom-com-world, to-read 4.32 1996 The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA["Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character]]> 35167685 A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.


Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets; accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums; painting a naked female toreador. In short, here is Feynman's life in all its eccentric—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.]]> 400 Richard P. Feynman 0393355624 Camii 0 to-read 4.26 1985 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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]]> Funny Story 194802722 A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex... right?]]> 400 Emily Henry Camii 3 4.21 2024 Funny Story
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> Jane Eyre 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]> 532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 Camii 3 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
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]]> <![CDATA[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change]]> 36072 372 Stephen R. Covey 0743269519 Camii 0 to-read, nonfictionnnn, uni 4.16 1989 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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]]> The Midnight Library 52578297
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]> 288 Matt Haig 0525559477 Camii 0 fiction, currently-reading 3.96 2020 The Midnight Library
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]]> Novecento. Un monologo 61266 Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai sentita prima, meravigliosa. Dicono che la sua storia fosse pazzesca, che fosse nato su quella nave e che da lì non fosse mai sceso. Dicono che nessuno sapesse il perché.

]]> 62 Alessandro Baricco 8807813025 Camii 0 to-read 4.22 1994 Novecento. Un monologo
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> 10,000 Years of Art 6067824 544 Phaidon Press 0714849693 Camii 0 to-read 4.27 2009 10,000 Years of Art
author: Phaidon Press
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity]]> 6162567 When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog-gapingvoid.com-and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of his main subjects is creativity. How do new ideas emerge in a cynical, risk-averse world? Where does inspiration come from? What does it take to make a living as a creative person?Ignore Everybody expands on MacLeod's sharpest insights, wittiest cartoons, and most useful advice. For example:-Selling out is harder than it looks. Diluting your product to make it more commercial will just make people like it less.-If your plan depends on you suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.-Don't try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether. There's no point trying to do the same thing as 250,000 other young hopefuls, waiting for a miracle. All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.-The idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours. The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will.After learning MacLeod's forty keys to creativity, you will be ready to unlock your own brilliance and unleash it on the world.]]> 159 Hugh MacLeod 159184259X Camii 0 to-read 4.06 2009 Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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]]> Desconfiar de las imágenes 50615726 Brand New. Ship worldwide 0 Harun Farocki 987162218X Camii 0 to-read 4.71 2013 Desconfiar de las imágenes
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average rating: 4.71
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]]> Passing 57640287 Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.

This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.

Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband.

Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.]]> 141 Nella Larsen 0593437845 Camii 3 3.91 1929 Passing
author: Nella Larsen
name: Camii
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1929
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Outliers: The Story of Success]]> 3228917 Learn what sets high achievers apart � from Bill Gates to the Beatles � in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.]]> 309 Malcolm Gladwell 0316017922 Camii 4 everything-business El autor va en contra del pensamiento popular que atribuye el éxito de una persona a algún tipo de “genialidad� inexplicable.
A grandes rasgos le encuentra a cada caso una explicación lógica que siempre incluye ; suerte, ambiente y trabajo duro.
Creo que depende de cada uno con que quedarse. Hay quienes utilizarán el hecho de que la suerte es un factor y sentirán que entonces no depende de ellos y lo utilizaran para sentirse mejor.
Yo acepto y coincido con que existe ese factor suerte y que el ambiente en el que crecemos determina más cosas de las que nos damos cuenta.
Pero, elijo quedarme con el último punto; trabajo duro.
Ver que esos casos de éxito son producto de trabajo duro. No un golpe de suerte aislado. Sino de años y años de intentar y fracasar y seguir intentando.
Y que a fin de cuentas personas como Bill Gates simplemente hicieron cosas a una escala y con una intensidad que la mayoría no se atreve o no puede(factor circunstancia y suerte) a intentar.
Parte de la genialidad del libro es que mientras que lees lo que para el autor fueron los distintos puntos de suerte empezas a reconocer los tuyos propios y si resulta que sos una persona que tuvo algo de suerte en su vida y tiene la posibilidad de intentar entonces lo único que faltaría son las ganas de incorporar ese trabajo duro. ]]> 4.19 2008 Outliers: The Story of Success
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Una escritura espectacular y una premisa aún mejor. Narra las historias de distintos casos de éxitos (que te expone además a historías súper interesantes como la de los Beatles que fue mi favorita) con el fin de encontrar algún patrón o explicación.
El autor va en contra del pensamiento popular que atribuye el éxito de una persona a algún tipo de “genialidad� inexplicable.
A grandes rasgos le encuentra a cada caso una explicación lógica que siempre incluye ; suerte, ambiente y trabajo duro.
Creo que depende de cada uno con que quedarse. Hay quienes utilizarán el hecho de que la suerte es un factor y sentirán que entonces no depende de ellos y lo utilizaran para sentirse mejor.
Yo acepto y coincido con que existe ese factor suerte y que el ambiente en el que crecemos determina más cosas de las que nos damos cuenta.
Pero, elijo quedarme con el último punto; trabajo duro.
Ver que esos casos de éxito son producto de trabajo duro. No un golpe de suerte aislado. Sino de años y años de intentar y fracasar y seguir intentando.
Y que a fin de cuentas personas como Bill Gates simplemente hicieron cosas a una escala y con una intensidad que la mayoría no se atreve o no puede(factor circunstancia y suerte) a intentar.
Parte de la genialidad del libro es que mientras que lees lo que para el autor fueron los distintos puntos de suerte empezas a reconocer los tuyos propios y si resulta que sos una persona que tuvo algo de suerte en su vida y tiene la posibilidad de intentar entonces lo único que faltaría son las ganas de incorporar ese trabajo duro.
]]> <![CDATA[Discrimination and Disparities]]> 36222735 A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches to issues of economic and other disparities

Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation or genetics. It is readable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
The point of Discrimination and Disparities is not to recommend some particular policy "fix" at the end, but to clarify why so many policy fixes have turned out to be counterproductive, and to expose some seemingly invincible fallacies behind many counterproductive policies.
The final chapter deals with social visions and their human consequences.
]]> 192 Thomas Sowell Camii 0 to-read 4.44 2018 Discrimination and Disparities
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]]> My Roman Year 216165554 The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman’s family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment (eventually revealed to be a recently vacated brothel) on Via Clelia. Though dejected, Aciman’s mother and brother found their way into life in Rome, while Aciman burrowed into his bedroom. The world of novels eventually allowed him to open up to the city and, through them, discover the beating heart of the Eternal City.Aciman’s time in Rome did not last long before he and his family moved across the ocean, but by the time they did, he was leaving behind a city he loved. In this memoir, the author, a genius of "the poetry of the place" (John Domini, The Boston Globe), conjures the sights, smells, tastes, and people of Rome as only he can. Aciman captures, as if in amber, a living portrait of himself on the brink of adulthood and the city he worshipped at that pivotal moment. Roman Year is a treasure, unearthed by one of our greatest prose stylists.]]> 354 André Aciman 0571385184 Camii 0 to-read 3.82 2024 My Roman Year
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]]> Ogilvy on Advertising 641601
Told with brutal candor and prodigal generosity, David Ogilvy

•How to get a job in advertising
•How to choose an agency for your product
•The secrets behind advertising that works
•How to write successful copy—and get people to read it
•Eighteen miracles of research
•What advertising can do for charities

And much, much more.]]> 224 David Ogilvy 039472903X Camii 0 4.14 1983 Ogilvy on Advertising
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name: Camii
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup]]> 37976541 ومع ذيوعصيت "(ثيرانوس)، بدأت بعض الوقائع بالتكشف عن عدم جهوزية، بل عدم صلاحية، الأجهزة المنتجة، رغم أن إليزابيث قد فتحت قنوات تسويقية كبيرة مع كبيريات الشركات الدوائية (نوفارتيس)، وسلسلة المتاجر الصيدلانية الكبرى (وولغرينز)، ومتاجر الأغذية متعددة الفروع (سيفواي)، ومع تسرب أخبار تؤكد أن الأجهزة مزودة ببرنامج يظهر نتائج عشوائية لعينات الدم، الأمر الذي قد يودي بحيوات أناس كثيرين، وعلى الرغم من أن مجلس إدارة الشركة قد استقطب مجموعة من السياسيين والعسكريين المخضرمين في أعلى هرم السياسة الأمريكية، مثل جورج شولتز وهنري كيسنجر وروبرت مردوخ وجيمس ماتيس، وحتى أوباما، الذي استقبلها في مكتبه البيضاوي- على الرغم من ذلك، وفي حقل مليء بالتهديدات والألغام، بدأت رحلة الصحافي الكبير جون كاريرو في وول ستريت جورنال، إثر معلومة وصلته في ٢٠١٥، في تحري أسرار (ثيرانوس)، من أفواه الشرفاء الذين قدموا استقالاتهم من الشركة، وعلى رأسهم تيلر شولتز، حفيد جورج شولتز، والحصول على الوثائق والأدلة التي تثبت تورط الشركة في أسوأ عملية غش طالت المرضى قبل المستثمرين ومالكي الأسهم في ثيرانوس.
يفضح هذا الكتاب الذي استغرق إنجازه ثلاث سنوات ونصف السنة، رؤوس الفساد في قلب المؤسسة السلطوية الأميركية منجهة، ويشير إلى الظمائر النبيلة التي قدمت الأدلة الدامغة على تورط ثيرانوس من جهة أخرى، الأمر الذي قاد إليزابيث هولمز، السايكوباثية بحسب تعبير كاريرو، مع أزلامها، إلى قاعات المحاكم، لتنتهي أسطورة شركتها التي بلغ رأس مالها تسعة مليارات دولار.]]> 339 John Carreyrou Camii 0 to-read, journalism 4.38 2018 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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]]> Sin armas ni rencores 24203415
Viernes 13 de enero de 2006. Más de trescientos policías rodean la manzana del Banco Río en la localidad de Acassuso: una banda toma veintitrés rehenes. Pasan las horas y los ladrones no se entregan. Los grupos de elite deciden irrumpir. Cuando entran, ocurre lo impensado: los asaltantes no están y, como si fuera un acto de magia, sólo quedan las víctimas. Ya sobre la noche, el misterio se revela: fingieron un robo exprés para burlar a los investigadores mientras otro grupo vaciaba las cajas de seguridad del subsuelo. Huyeron de la forma más inesperada con diecinueve millones de dólares y ochenta kilos de joyas. Antes de irse dejaron un mensaje en la bóveda que pasaría a la gloria: “En barrio de ricachones, sin armas ni rencores, es sólo plata y no amores�. Por primera vez en casi diez años habla el verdadero ideólogo y líder del asalto. Un artista plástico criado en San Isidro, experto en artes marciales y cultivador de marihuana que planificó el robo más audaz de la historia del crimen en la Argentina. En entrevistas a fondo con seis de los integrantes de la banda, con pulso de thriller y documentación hasta ahora oculta –planos, dibujos y fotos inéditas del robo�, Rodolfo Palacios reconstruye en Sin armas ni rencores el golpe desde su génesis hasta lo sucedido luego de la caída de los protagonistas, entre ellos, Luis Mario Vitette Sellanes, conocido también como “el hombre del traje gris� que estudió teatro para engañar al infalible negociador de la Bonaerense.]]> 448 Rodolfo Palacios 9504942431 Camii 0 to-read 4.17 2014 Sin armas ni rencores
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]]> <![CDATA[How Much Land Does A Man Need?]]> 149704851
A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.]]> 64 Leo Tolstoy Camii 0 to-read 4.16 How Much Land Does A Man Need?
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]]> The 12 Week Year 10009377
The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to 12 weeks

Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound.Explains how to leverage the power of a 12-week year to drive improved results in any area of your lifeOffers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectivenessAuthors are leading experts on execution and implementation

Turn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.

2013 Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington (P)2014 Audible Inc.]]> 208 Brian P. Moran Camii 0 to-read 3.79 2009 The 12 Week Year
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]]> <![CDATA[Essential Tennis: Improve Faster, Play Smarter, and Win More Matches]]> 60885213 The essential book from online tennis coaching sensation Ian Westermann, founder of EssentialTennis.com

What’s the number one thing stopping you from playing your best tennis?

Ian Westermann, founder of the world’s #1 online tennis instruction portal, Essentialtennis.com, will confidently say it’s an obstacle you probably never thought The ball. You might think this sounds ridiculous. The whole point of tennis is to hit the ball over the net and in, so how can the ball be the thing that’s standing in the way? In fact, this is why the ball is such an your desire to hit a good shot, with the right mix of power and spin, to a specific spot on the court, prevents you from striking the ball the way you should.

In Essential Tennis, readers � players and coaches, alike � will learn how improving at tennis actually happens and how to easily implement these lessons and integrate them into better play on the court. Players will hit stronger shots, make fewer errors, and beat players who are currently beating them. Coaches will look differently at what it means to provide a student with a holistic learning experience.

Essential Tennis contains technique-based instruction for executing groundstrokes, volleys, and serves, as well as progressions, drills, and mindsets players should incorporate. Westermann illuminates strokes, movement, strategy, and mental toughness � all proven to be successful over 20 years with clients of all ages and skill levels.]]> 322 Ian Westermann 1250765242 Camii 0 to-read 4.53 Essential Tennis: Improve Faster, Play Smarter, and Win More Matches
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]]> The Brain: The Story of You 25776132 224 David Eagleman 1101870532 Camii 0 to-read, social-sciences 4.25 2015 The Brain: The Story of You
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron"]]> 34196225 If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical impulses? What separates us from animals, or from computers?

From Plato to Westworld, these questions have fascinated and befuddled philosophers, artists, and scientists for centuries. In The Forgetting Machine, neuroscientist Rodrigo Quiroga explains how the mechanics of memory illuminates these discussions, with implications for everything from understanding Alzheimer's disease to the technology of Artificial Intelligence.
You'll also learn about the research behind what Quiroga coined "Jennifer Aniston Neurons," cells in the human brain that are responsible for representing specific concepts, such as recognizing a certain celebrity's face. The discovery of these neurons opens new windows into the workings of human memory.

In this accessible, fascinating look at the science of remembering, you'll learn how we turn perceptions into memories, how language shapes our experiences, and the crucial role forgetting plays in human recollection. You'll see how electricity, chemistry, and abstraction combine to form something more than the human brain--the human mind. And you'll gain surprising insight into what our brains can tell us about who we are.

The Forgetting Machine takes us on a journey through science and science fiction, philosophy and identity, using what we know about how we remember (and forget) to explore the very roots of what makes us human.]]> 170 Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 1944648542 Camii 0 to-read, social-sciences 3.73 The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron"
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]]> <![CDATA[Economía y psicología. Apuntes sobre economía conductual para entender problemas económicos actuales (Spanish Edition)]]> 37794000 289 6071650887 Camii 0 to-read, econ 4.14 Economía y psicología. Apuntes sobre economía conductual para entender problemas económicos actuales (Spanish Edition)
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]]> Finanzas para emprendedores 9870141
En Finanzas para emprendedores Antonio Manzanera describe todo aquello que un emprendedor debe conocer para conseguir financiación para su empresa y mantenerla a flote durante sus primeros años de vida.

Si estás en el proceso de crear una empresa o bien la has creado recientemente y necesitas financiación para la misma, éste es el libro que necesitas para llevar tu proyecto a buen puerto.]]> 384 Antonio Manzanera Escribano 8423427838 Camii 0 to-read, econ 4.12 2010 Finanzas para emprendedores
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]]> <![CDATA[El libro prohibido de la economía: Lo que las marcas, los bancos, las empresas, los gobiernos... no quieren que sepas]]> 27398257 255 Fernando Trías de Bes 8467046104 Camii 0 to-read, econ 3.78 El libro prohibido de la economía: Lo que las marcas, los bancos, las empresas, los gobiernos... no quieren que sepas
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]]> <![CDATA[La economía de la manipulación: Cómo caemos como incautos en las trampas del mercado]]> 29557558 917 George A. Akerlof 842342510X Camii 0 to-read, econ 3.68 2015 La economía de la manipulación: Cómo caemos como incautos en las trampas del mercado
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]]> <![CDATA[Narrativas económicas: Cómo las fake news y las historias virales afectan la marcha de la economía]]> 55890507
Cuando circulan por la sociedad en forma de historias populares, las ideas pueden llegar a viralizarse y transformar los mercados. Así sucede, por ejemplo, con la creencia de que las acciones tecnológicas no dejan de subir, la convicción de que el precio de la vivienda nunca disminuye o la seguridad de que algunas empresas son demasiado grandes para quebrar. Sean ciertas o falsas, estas historias se transmiten por el viejo boca a boca, los medios de comunicación o las redes sociales, y crean percepciones sobre el gasto, el ahorro o la inversión que en última instancia tienen un gran impacto en la economía general y en la vida de los individuos y las sociedades.

En este libro fascinante, el premio Nobel de economía Robert J. Shiller parte de estas narrativas populares para enseñarnos cómo afectan al comportamiento individual y colectivo y, de manera clave, cómo su estudio puede mejorar nuestra capacidad para predecir acontecimientos económicos como crisis financieras, recesiones, depresiones o booms. Y, sobre todo, cómo detectar las noticias falsas antes de que afecten a nuestro bolsillo.]]> 488 Robert J. Shiller 8423432165 Camii 0 to-read, econ 2.86 2019 Narrativas económicas: Cómo las fake news y las historias virales afectan la marcha de la economía
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]]> <![CDATA[Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism]]> 6167162
Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government--simply allowing markets to work won't do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life--such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes--and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them.

Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits--the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today.]]> 248 George A. Akerlof 0691142335 Camii 0 to-read, econ 3.78 2008 Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
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