This book is volume II of a planned three volume book plus supplementary website, www.bookabout books.com, which will present some books and subjects not contained in the books. A Book about Books discusses what nonfiction books and subjects the author believes are important to know about. Volume I is available from the same booksellers as this volume. Volume III will take several years before it is available. E.H. Bernstein is a former librarian...

"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."-Boston Globe "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing."-San Francisco Chronicle At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which...

Although some people are using ChatGPT to write children's books for sale, most people are looking for information or entertainment when they type in a prompt. In this study, I became more interested in what type of narrative it might create with a specific or vague set of instructions. For the most part, its stories were trite and hackneyed generalizations befitting a mere sentence generator, but when it strayed from the norm, it sometimes indulged...

Falling into Grace is a study of Andrew Greeley's fiction and the message behind his words, revealing many timeless political and theological ideas. Professor R. W. Carstens shares the findings of his deep exploration into Greeley's novels as evidence of a set of ancient values and key political ideas that are needed today more than ever. As a great storyteller, Greeley's message is significant-that grace sustains us, unites us, comforts us, and sometimes...

Benevolent billionaire Justin Wolfe establishes an autonomous economic experiment on a farm near Savannah, Georgia. The theory: give people the means to advance in life through daily direct deposits and even the formerly homeless can become entrepreneurs who contribute meaningfully to society. Wolfe tasks economics whiz kid Evan White to roll out an advanced economic system that creates a higher standard of living than most citizens in neighboring...

These essays and reviews are mostly about literary fiction published in the last ten years and are written from the perspective of a fan of the McElroy/Coover/DeLillo axis or, more recently, the Powers/Vollmann/Wallace axis. The review-essays include pieces on all of the National Book Award fiction finalists of the last five years. Reviews selected here first appeared in Electronic Book Review, Barnes and Noble Review, New York Times Book Review,...

In this book, in addition to the in-depth studies in theoretical cases of literature works from Albanian literature, the reader comes across formative and informational articles of value regarding authors, works, figures and personalities of the Albanian world and diaspora.

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Published in 1902, this collection of essays, revised for this volume, stemmed from the observation that the quantity of books published was rising in inverse proportion to their quality. "Writing done at this rate of speed," the author opines, "is not literature and cannot be."

Who is John Galt? It is the question that has intrigued readers since Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957, when author Ayn Rand revealed her highly anticipated final novel. This question and others have driven scientist Christiane Munkholm to dig deeper into the pages of this masterpiece and unearth a metaphor-a buried equation-crucial to solving one of the greatest literary mysteries of all time. In Atlas Decrypted, Christiane takes you on a journey...