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9 best books like Flow Chart (John Ashbery): Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Las batallas en el desierto, The White Album, Play It As It Lays, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Paroles, Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001, Head Games, Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
Las batallas en el desierto
| Author | José Emilio Pacheco |
| ISBN | 9684114737 |
Historia de un amor imposible, narración de un terror cotidiano que los protagonistas preferirían creer que se trata de algo fantasmagórico, Las batallas en el desierto es una magistral novela breve que involucra otros aspectos como la corrupción social y política, el inicio del México moderno...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374522219 |
First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference,...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374529949 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
| Author | David Epstein |
| ISBN | 0735214484 |
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
| Author | Jacques Prévert |
| ISBN | 2070367622 |
Rappelle-toi Barbara
Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jour là
Et tu marchais souriante
Épanouie ravie ruisselante
Sous la pluie
Rappelle-toi Barbara...
Oh Barbara
Quelle connerie la guerre
Qu'es-tu devenue maintenant
Sous cette pluie de fer
De...
| Author | W.G. Sebald |
| ISBN | 1400068908 |
A publishing landmark—the first major collection of poems by one of the late twentieth century’s literary masters
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that The Guardian called “a...
| Author | Craig McDonald |
| ISBN | 1932557423 |
You start a book like Head Games, set as it is in the fifties, and you wonder if it has to go so hard on period details like casual homophobia, and so often at that. The first novel written in Craig McDonald's Hector Lassiter series, although the seventh chronologically, starts well. People die indiscriminately,...
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. WAITER RANT offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior,...
