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Isham Cook
ŷ Author
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in Chicago, The United States
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Ballard, Beckett, Borges, Dick, Kafka, Hesse, Melville, Mishima, Sade
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January 2012
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The Kitchens of Canton
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American Rococo: Essays on the Edge
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The Mustachioed Woman of Shanghai
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Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews
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At the Teahouse Cafe: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
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Lust & Philosophy
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The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China
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Massage and the Writer
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Sexual Fascism: Essays
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“The golden ocean flower.� Fiction
[For background to this story, read the preceding story �.�]
A cleaver and a silver tael given to her by her father were all that weighed down the sack hanging from her shoulders as Qiezi forded the river. Now on the opposite bank on agile feet she scarcely needed to halt her pace except that she was hungry, the family meal aborted by the unfortunate events of the past hour. Expressionless
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| This history of the Taiping Civil War in China (1850-64) has to be one of the most harrowing accounts of warfare I've ever read. The U.S. Civil War was child's play by comparison. Augustus Lindley was an ex-British naval officer who joined the Taipin ...more | |
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| In this YA novel about a Chinese girl’s initial coming of age, there is not much of a plot, nothing outright dramatic occurs (apart from the momentous results of a senior high-school entrance exam and the death of a relative), there is no romance or ...more | |
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Sleepwalking through China: The true story of an American teacher in a foreign land:
"I came to this book with a jaundiced eye. I found it pretentious for the author to use a Chinese pseudonym and presumptuous to declare in the blurb on the back cover that "most people get China wrong, [sic] I want to set the record straight." At time"
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No, because to be frank I don't often read translations of Chinese literature in English. I'm actually more interested in Chinese authors who write in English (e.g., Han Jin, Xiaolu Guo) and expat authors writing about China.
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| If nothing else, a novel should be instructive. This novel was a trying read but I managed to get through it and learned how NOT to live life. It’s a well-regarded novel and is indeed competently written, but it’s a dreary story, with the most tediou ...more | |
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“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Lust and Philosophy
― Lust and Philosophy
“Andrew Solomon, in his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, traces the links between addiction and depression, which frequently co-occur, as well as the intimate relationship between depression and anxiety. He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as “fraternal twins�: “Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.� Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.”
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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