The scent of books, their papery wings fluttering as you read...the amazing variety of books people secretly carry in their cars... the way that refrigerators, hosting stories of every kind, are actually a literary genre... the way we all make scurrilous moral judgments when surreptitiously scanning other people's bookshelves... the subtle joy of reading a vast series of books... the pleasures of reading box scores and Ships in Port in the newspaper... the terrible epidemic of misplaced apostrophes in American life; why the essay is the coolest wildest literary form of them all... notes on Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tony Hillerman, Joseph Conrad, Cynthia Ozick, Jan Morris, William Blake, and Andre Dubus... the moist delights of sea novels... a peculiar interview with the nonfiction author Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI... and much, much more that will make you laugh and snarl and ponder the endless pleasure of books and their creators. This is a book to enjoy, enlighten, and inspire.
| Format: | Paperback book |
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| Product code: | AP1137 |
| Dimensions: | 6" x 9" |
| Length: | 215 pages |
| Publisher: |
ACTA Publications
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| ISBN: | 9780996136204 |
| 1-2 copies | $19.76 each |
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| 3-5 copies | $18.66 each |
| 6+ copies | $17.56 each |
Author
Brian Doyle was a hirsute shambling shuffling mumbling grumbling muttering muddled maundering meandering male being who edited Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon — the best university magazine in America, according to Newsweek, and "the best spiritual magazine in the country," according to author Annie Dillard, clearly a woman of surpassing taste and discernment.
Doyle's books have four times been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion, The American Scholar, and in newspapers and magazines around the world. His essays have also been reprinted in the annual Best American Essays, Best American Science & Nature Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Among various honors for his work is a Catholic Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and, mysteriously, a 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His greatest accomplishments are that a riveting woman said yup when he mumbled a marriage proposal, that the Coherent Mercy then sent them three lanky snotty sneery testy sweet brilliant nutty muttering children in skin boats from the sea of the stars, and that he made the all-star team in a Boston men's basketball league that was a really tough league, guys drove the lane in that league they lost fingers, man, one time a guy drove to the basket and got hit so hard his right arm fell off but he was lefty and hit both free throws, so there you go.
