Lisa and David
10 best books like Lisa and David (Theodore Isaac Rubin): George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President, The Holy Barbarians, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Extravagance, A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays, Brigadoon (Vocal Score), My Life As Author And Editor, The Archidamian War, The Art of Fiction, Molière: A Biography
| Author | Jacob Weisberg |
| ISBN | 0743222229 |
They misunderestimated me."
Or did they?
Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotated, and introduced by Slate magazine's Jacob Weisberg.
"I know the human being and fish can coexist...
This is a Rory book. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
I loved that show, and I found some good titles that eventually became awesome books. So, yes. It's a Rory book... Don't question my sources. (?)
September 27, 2013
Update
Oh, yes. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life will be released...
| Author | Seymour M. Hersh |
| ISBN | 0394714504 |
Investigative journalist Hersh made one of his earliest splashes documenting the My Lai atrocity at the height of the Vietnam War; this short, angry book summarizes his research and findings. Unfortunately for modern readers, it's a leftist polemic that spends as much time trashing the American...
| Author | Gary Krist |
| ISBN | 0767913310 |
William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies.
The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it is...
| Author | Mary McCarthy |
| ISBN | 1590170105 |
Mary McCarthy was one of the leading literary figures of her time. In addition to the novels and memoirs for which she is best remembered, she was also a tireless literary and social critic. Starting out as a theater reviewer for "Partisan Review" in 1937, she quickly distinguished herself for her witty...
| Author | Alan Jay Lerner |
| ISBN | 0769202225 |
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| Author | H.L. Mencken |
| ISBN | 0679413154 |
While it does include a very telling look into the life of Mencken and his inner circle of aristocratic literary society, this memoir is very rough and incoherent at times. He includes an insane amount of trivial detail that would bore even the most devoted of Menckophiles--such as hyperspecific details...
| Author | Donald Kagan |
| ISBN | 0801497140 |
This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1172438099 |
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ”
― Henry James
The short essay Criticism, the focus of my review, is part of this collection which includes...
| Author | Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor |
| ISBN | 0548869707 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Jim Irvin |
| ISBN | 1841954381 |
The non-Classical long-player had a good commercial run, and The MOJO Collection, compiled by writers for the UK-published MOJO Magazine, chronologically assembles more than 1,700 definitive LP titles from the format’s history. Using brief but informative essays to highlight each album’s...
| Author | Philip N. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0826215688 |
For more than thirty years the newspaper industry has been losing readers at a slow but steady rate. News professionals are inclined to blame themselves, but the real culprit is technology and its competing demands on the public's time. The Internet is just the latest in a long series of new information...
A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960
| Author | Milton Friedman |
| ISBN | 0691003548 |
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0807844160 |
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
| Author | Michael Moore |
| ISBN | 0743272927 |
THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO FAHRENHEIT 9/11
The Cannes Film Festival jury voted unanimously to award the 2004 Best Picture Award to Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11. Since then it has gone on to smash all box office records for a documentary and created an international discussion about the Bush administration...
| Author | Alvin Granowsky |
| ISBN | 0811466345 |
-- The non-traditional version is told through the eyes of the other characters, stimulating critical thought in young readers.
-- Flip-book format physically mimics the "two sides of the story", allowing easy comparisons.
-- Full-color artwork is executed in two distinct styles.
--...
Novels, 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away / The Locusts Have No King / The Wicked Pavilion / The Golden Spur
| Author | Dawn Powell |
| ISBN | 1931082022 |
American literature has known few writers capable of the comic elan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell's work was out of print, cherished only by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the writer...
| Author | Rob Reger |
| ISBN | 1593075731 |
I've always liked the images from Emily the Strange, but up until now I'd never come across any of the actual comics. I found one on sale and thought, "what the hell..."
Well. Yeah. I'm feeling pretty meh about the whole thing.
There's a lot of tongue in cheek, darkly cute references to...
| Author | Frederick Kohner |
| ISBN | 0425179621 |
My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to, quote, sit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unquote Glicksberg! I don't know what kind of things he writes but I found my inspiration in Malibu with a radio, my best girlfriends, and...
| Author | Joe Harvard |
| ISBN | 0826415504 |
The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation,...
| Author | Dorothy Parker |
| ISBN | 0142437212 |
For a very long time (read: just before finding this book) I wasn't completely sure that Dorothy Parker had ever written anything longer than a quote. I'd always sort of suspected that she was famous for drinking a lot and delivering devastating one-liners on a regular basis.
It was a delightful...
