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Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

10 best books like Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Lawrence W. Levine): The Wretched of the Earth, Sonnets to Orpheus, Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider, Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain, Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste, Photography: A Middle-Brow Art, Making Literature Now

The Wretched of the Earth
AuthorFrantz Fanon
ISBN0802141323
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
Sonnets to Orpheus
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0393328856
To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of...
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
AuthorLaura J. Miller
ISBN0226525910
Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as in other areas of retail, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. This has...
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
AuthorMark Kramer
ISBN0452287553
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything...
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
AuthorEric D. Weitz
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating...
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393322394
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's...
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
AuthorDwight Macdonald
A New York Review Books Original

An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to...
Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste
AuthorHerbert J. Gans
ISBN0465026095
Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding...
Photography: A Middle-Brow Art
AuthorPierre Bourdieu
ISBN0804726892
The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu and his research associates show that few cultural activities are more structural and systematic...
Making Literature Now
AuthorAmy Hungerford
ISBN0804799407
How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various...
The Making of Middlebrow Culture
AuthorJoan Shelley Rubin
ISBN0807843547
The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. By examining both the form and content of this popularization of literature, Joan Rubin recaptures...
Goodbye to Berlin
AuthorChristopher Isherwood
ISBN0586047956
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again.

In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters,...
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
AuthorMark McGurl
ISBN0674033191
In "The Program Era, " Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized...
Moshi moshi
AuthorBanana Yoshimoto
ISBN8807019027
Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l’aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d’amore, Yoshie si trasferisce dalla sua casa di Meguro a un minuscolo e vecchio appartamento a Shimokitazawa, un quartiere di Tokyo famoso per le sue stradine chiuse al traffico, i ristoranti, i negozietti,...
Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data
AuthorHerbert J. Rubin
ISBN0761920757
The Second Edition of Qualitative Interviewing has been totally rewritten to add new examples and to better integrate the presentation of topics. Readers will see how the choice of topic influences question wording and how the questions asked influence the analysis. The authors have improved the...
How I Escaped My Certain Fate
AuthorStewart Lee
ISBN0571254802

The Goodreads Censorship Fiasco of 2013 has got a lot of people considering works by Adolph Hitler, convicted sex offenders, and flagrant P2P artists. I have found myself repeatedly thinking of a particular routine from 90s stand-up comedian Stewart Lee.

If you don't know Lee, his style...
Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War
AuthorEric Bennett
ISBN1609383710
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual...
13 Short Stories by Philip K. Dick (Illustrated)
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
Second Variety
The Variable Man
Beyond Lies The Wub
The Eyes Have It
Mr Spaceship
Beyond The Door
The Skull
The Defenders
The Crystal Crypt
The Gun
Tony And The Beetles
Piper in the Woods
The Hanging Stranger


Philip K. Dick was an American...
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