Changing My Mind
Occasional Essays
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010.
Format: Large Print
Description: 563 pages ; 23 cm.
A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling."
Series: Thorndike Press large print core series.
Contents:
Foreword -- 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.
ISBN:
9781410425027 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references.