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Book

Changing my mind : occasional essays

Call Number

  • 824 S6641 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

Physical Description

xiv, 306 p. 25 cm.

Contents

  • Reading. Their eyes were watching god: what does soulful mean?
  • E.M. Forster, middle manager
  • Middlemarch and everybody
  • Rereading Barthes and Nabokov
  • F. Kafka, everyman
  • Two directions for the novel
  • Being. That crafty feeling
  • One week in Liberia
  • Speaking in tongues
  • Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo
  • Notes on Visconti's Bellissima
  • At the multiplex, 2006
  • Ten notes on Oscar weekend
  • Feeling. Smith family Christmas
  • Accidental hero
  • Dead man laughing
  • Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men: the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace.

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