While not based on any specific myth, Melissa Broder's wildly erotic novel does tell the tale of a woman who—after moving to Venice Beach to finally finish her dissertation on Sappho—finds herself falling for a merman and questioning everything she once held to be true. Just trust us on...
craft and art, and vision with form and structure), Gelett Burgess (forLe Petit Journal des Refusésand its spontaneous, topical and zine-like spirit), Gustave Flaubert (forBouvard et Pécuchetand its idea of the “book as failure” to transmit...
In 2016 the Chinese children’s author Yin Jianling 殷健灵published a novel (Yemangpo野芒坡) about an orphaned Chinese boy at the Jesuit-run Tushanwan (Tou-se-we) orphanage 土山湾孤儿院 in Shanghai, which was famous for its education and exceptional art and craft workshops. The boy, You ...
The texture of this book, its adapted accordion structure and Alberti’s words remind me of Geoffroy Tory’sChamp fleury: The Art and Science of the Proportion of the Attic or Ancient Roman Letters, According to the Human Body and Face(1529) and its argument for finding the ideal shape of...
1 Kings- the first of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel I Kings Old Testament- the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible ...
Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics 鈥BIBLIOGRAPHY 鈥 OF SECONDARY SOURCES Abrams D., "'The Book of Illumination' of R. Jacob ben Jacob haKohen : A Synoptic Edition from Various Manuscripts." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1993. Altmann, A. "...
Music lovers will be happy to know that the computerization of the decade-wise complete information about Hindi films published in the five volumes has begun. It is hoped that the computerization will help in the printing and publication of the revised edition of volume 3 (1951-60), volumes ...
About Me5 Years of Tweed After several years of freelance editing, Katie officially founded Tweed Editing LLC in 2010. 135 Clients Served … and counting! Scholars from a very wide range of disciplines have worked with Tweed: literature, art, anthropology, history, cultural studies. 77 Instit...
Brooklyn Magazine — Heather O’Donnell, founder of Honey & Wax Booksellers, came to Brooklyn in 1997 to finish her dissertation... Read More... What Makes A Book Rare -- And Do You Have One? Saturday January 19, 2013 Brooklyn Artisan — On Thursday night at the Community Bookstore on...
Artist’s statement (website):In the late 1980s, I was still involved in working on the biography of Ilia Zdanevich (Iliazd), begun in 1985 when I was a Fulbright Fellow in Paris, working on my dissertation. That biography went through many iterations, and was finally left unpublished ...