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    11 hours agomrpowerlunch added a tags to Richard Stites.
    georgetown, professor
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    11 hours agomrpowerlunch updated Biography of Richard Stites.
    RICHARD STITES is Professor of History at Georgetown University and author of The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia; Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Social Experiment in the Russian Revolution; and Russian Popular Culture.
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    11 hours agomrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of Red star : the first Bolshevik utopia.
    Red star -- Engineer Meeni -- Martian stranded on Earth.

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    Product Description
    A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets are the subjects of two arresting science fiction novels by Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. Included are the 1908 edition of the novel Red Star, the novel Engineer Menni (1913), and a poem, A Martian Stranded on Earth (1927). Essays by Richard Stites and Loren R. Graham provide the political, social, and cultural context for these classic works of Russian science fiction.
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    11 hours agomrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of The women's liberation movement in Russia : feminism, nihilism, and bolshevism, 1860-1930.
    `"This book by Richard Stites stands out as the most comprehensive analytical study of Russian women in the century from Nicholas I to Stalin. Written with verve and wit, with enormous erudition and the highest scholarly standards, this dense survey sets out to investigate the origins of the woman question in the 1850s and 1860s, the rival responses of feminists, nihilists, and political radicals, the division of the women's movement into hostile feminist and socialist camps, and finally the results of the Bolshevik policies directed toward women in the postrevolutionary society. . . . The story told is a fascinating one and a necessary corrective to the essentially male-oriented accounts we have already of the populist, liberal, and Marxist movements.
    ( Ronald Grigor Suny The Review of Politics )

    A remarkably sensitive, highly objective, many-sided discussion of the achievements of [this] movement. . . . Richard Stites has given us social history at its very best, one of those rare scholarly works capable of touching the hearts and minds of a wide audience of specialists and nonspecialists alike.
    ( Roberta T. Manning The Journal of Modern History )

    Richard Stites's book is alive with events and individuals. It is a dramatic story well told, with understanding for reformers and revolutionaries, and a sensible, balanced assessment of their successes and failures.
    ( Barbara Evans Clements Journal of Social History ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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    23 hours agomrpowerlunch updated editions for The trouble I've seen.

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    • Publisher: Putnam
    • Date: 1936
    • Book ID: OL:OL6339657M


    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: Morrow
    • Date: 1936
    • Book ID: OL:OL15001689M

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    23 hours agomrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of Travels with myself and another.
    Product Description
    A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.

    "Gellhorn is incapable of writing a dull sentence."
    -The Times (London)

    "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.

    Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

    Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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    23 hours agomrpowerlunch updated Details of Travels with myself and another.
    Book: Travels with myself and another
    General Book Type:Nonfiction
    Language:English
    Original Publish Date:1979, c1978
    Copyright Expired:No
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    23 hours agomrpowerlunch updated Synopsis of Nothing ever happens to the brave : the story of Martha Gellhorn.
    From Publishers WeeklyOf Gellhorn, journalist and author of 15 books, an acquaintance once said, "Martha had real brains, beauty and the body of a Circe." Yet Gellhorn, now in her 80s, has seen her accomplishments overshadowed by her brief and stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway. In this entertaining and revealing biography, Rollyson ( Lillian Hellman ) allows Gellhorn to stand on her own two feet. Spirited, restless and dedicated to social progressivism, Gellhorn early on forsook the security of her affluent St. Louis, Mo., family for adventure, most notably as a daring war correspondent. Rollyson frames a picture of her courage, contrariness and complexity, and in the process further dismantles the Hemingway legend. Photos not seen by PW.
    Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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    3 days agomrpowerlunch is now following Todd.
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch added a quote to Etgar Keret.
    Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch added a quote to Etgar Keret.
    It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can soun
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch edited links for The Nimrod flipout.
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch edited links for Etgar Keret.
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch added a tags to Etgar Keret.
    film, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, fiction, graphic novel, director, Israeli
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch updated Details of Etgar Keret.
    Author: Etgar Keret
    Language:Hebrew
    Gender:Male
    Born - Died:1967/08/20 - ?
  • mrpowerlunch
    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch updated Biography of Etgar Keret.
    Etgar Keret (1967/08/20 ~ ) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels and scriptwriting for film and television. Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Shira Geffen, and their son, Lev. He is a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva and in the Tel Aviv University.

    Literary career
    Keret's first published work was Pipelines (1992), a collection of short stories which was initially ignored. In 1993 he won the first prize in the Alternative Theater Festival in Akko for Entebbe: A Musical which he wrote with Jonathan Bar Giora. His second book, Missing Kissinger(1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general public. His short story "Siren", which deals with the paradoxes of modern Israeli society, is included in the curriculum for the Israeli bagrut examination in literature.
    Keret has co-authored several comic books, among them Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Fun (1996) with Rutu Modan and Streets of Fury (1997) with Asaf Hanuka. In 1999 five of his stories were translated into English, and adapted into "graphic novellas" under the joint title Jetlag. The illustrators were the five members of the Actus Tragicus collective.

    In 1998 Keret published Kneller's Happy Campers, a collection of short stories. The title story, the longest in the collection, follows a young man who commits suicide and goes on a quest for love in the afterlife. It appears in the English language collection of Keret's stories The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories (2004) and was also adapted into the graphic novel Pizzeria Kamikaze (2006), with illustrations by Asaf Hanuka. The story was also adapted by director Goran Dukic into a feature-length film called Wristcutters: A Love Story starring Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits and Will Arnett. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Keret's latest short story collection in Hebrew is Anihu (literally I-am-him, 2002; translated into English as Cheap Moon, after one of the other stories in the collection).

    Keret also wrote a children's book Dad Runs Away with the Circus (2004), illustrated by Rutu Modan.
    Keret publishes some of his works on the Hebrew-language web site "Bimah Hadashah" (New Stage).

    Film and television
    Keret has also worked in Israeli television and film, including three seasons as a writer for the popular sketch show The Cameri Quintet and the story for the TV movie Abale (Daddy, 2001) starring Shmil Ben Ari. Wristcutters: A Love Story, 2007 a dark comedy/love story was based on Keret's novella Kneller's Happy Campers. $9.99, a stop motion animated feature film, was released in 2009. Written by Keret and director Tatia Rosenthal, it is an Israeli/Australian co-production featuring the voices of Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia and other leading Australian actors.

    Writing style
    Keret's writing style is lean, utilizing everyday language, slang, and dialect. His work has influenced many writers of his generation,[citation needed] as well as bringing a renewed surge in popularity for the short story form in Israel in the second half of the 1990s.

    Awards
    Keret has received the Prime Minister's award for literature, as well as the Ministry of Culture's Cinema Prize. In 2006 he was chosen as an outstanding artist of the prestigious Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. The short film Malka Lev Adom (Skin Deep, 1996) which Keret wrote and directed with Ran Tal, won an Israel Film Academy award and first place in the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. The film Jellyfish, a joint venture for Keret and his wife received the Camera d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Keret is currently on the jury for the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

    Criticism
    A review of Missing Kissinger describes Etgar Keret's locale as that of "male confusion, loneliness, blundering, bellowing and, above all, stasis. His narrator is trapped in an angry masculine wistfulness which is awful to behold in its masturbatory disconnection from the world's real possibilities and pleasures." Etgar is "not much of a stylist - you get the impression that he throws three or four of these stories off on the bus to work every morning," and his "wild, blackly inventive pieces...might have been dreamed up by a mad scientist rather than a writer."
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch updated Details of Gaza blues.
    Book: Gaza blues
    General Book Type:Fiction
    Language:Hebrew
    Original Publish Date:1996
    Copyright Expired:No
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    2010/01/31mrpowerlunch updated editions for Gaza blues.

    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: David Paul
    • Date: 2004
    • Book ID: OL:OL18189824M, ISBN13:9780954054243, ISBN10:0954054245


    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag GmbH
    • Date: March 1, 2002
    • Book ID: OL:OL9076955M, ISBN10:3630620256, ISBN13:9783630620251


    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: Luchterhand
    • Date: 1996
    • Book ID: OL:OL16346202M, ISBN13:9783630869414, ISBN10:3630869416

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    2010/01/28mrpowerlunch edited links for The catcher in the rye..
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