In the Presence of Fear
10 best books like In the Presence of Fear (Wendell Berry): The Shell Seekers, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, On Bullshit, Civil Disobedience, Thick as Thieves, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Bluets, The Lonely Londoners, Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent...
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
| Author | Brian Selznick |
| ISBN | 0439813786 |
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most...
| Author | Harry G. Frankfurt |
| ISBN | 0691122946 |
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon...
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Book Review
I read this nearly twenty years ago in a college course. I recently found my notes and listed a few below, so this isn’t a typical review you’ve seen from me.
My reaction to this work is pretty complicated. It had some thought-invoking ideas, but it was boring from a readability...
| Author | Megan Whalen Turner |
| ISBN | 0062568248 |
Deep within the palace of the Mede emperor, in an alcove off the main room of his master’s apartments,. Kamet minds his master’s business and his own. Carefully keeping the accounts, and his own counsel, Kamet has accumulated a few possessions, a little money stored in the household’s cashbox,...
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
| Author | Mike Isaac |
| ISBN | 0393652246 |
In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.
Award-winning New...
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
| Author | Gregory Boyle |
| ISBN | 1439153027 |
Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from twenty years working with gangs in LA.
How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people...
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
| ISBN | 1933517409 |
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...
A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...
| Author | Sam Selvon |
| ISBN | 0582642647 |
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.
'His Lonely Londoners has acquired a classic status since it appeared in 1956 as the definitive novel about London's West Indians.' — Financial Times
'The...
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
| Author | Simeon Wright |
| ISBN | 1556527837 |
No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. A 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955, Till was taken from his uncle’s home by two white men; several days later, his body was found in the Tallahatchie...
| Author | Natalie Babbitt |
| ISBN | 0545004969 |
I`ve read this one 2 or 3 times! By myself, to my students, to my then-boyfriend, possibly my roomate had to put up with some of the stories too. It`s delightful, like everything Natalie Babbitt writes! Gentle imaginative stories that are perfect to read with young children or older friends who like that...
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
| Author | Austin Kleon |
| ISBN | 1523506644 |
Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.
In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...
