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Item Information       Summary     More Content     Subjects     American literature -- 20th century.     American literature -- 21st century.     American wit and humor -- 20th century.     American wit and humor -- 21st century.     American essays -- 20th century.     American essays -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog       by title:      Table talk [electron...         MARC Display

Table talk [electronic resource] : from The threepenny review / edited by Wendy Lesser, Jennifer Zahrt, and Mimi Chubb. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, ©2015. Subjects American literature -- 20th century.   American literature -- 21st century.   American wit and humor -- 20th century.   American wit and humor -- 21st century.   American essays -- 20th century.   American essays -- 21st century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=AB78F914-939F-4E0C-A573-5882F49AB2AA This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/table-talk-ab78f9?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{AB78F914-939F-4E0C-A573-5882F49AB2AA}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781619025035 (electronic bk.) 1619025035 (electronic bk.) 1322876118 (ebk) 9781322876115 (ebk) Description:  1 online resource (xix, 298 pages) Requests:  0 Summary:  "Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and by all of the wittiest people they know. Table Talk is a collection of brief but critically acclaimed, half serious/half tongue-in-cheek pieces that borrow the format of The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" column. Selected from several decades (1990-2013) of The Threepenny Review, known colloquially as the West Coast's New York Review of Books, these anecdotal essays debate the historical, artistic, and technological developments of our time. It includes essays by Christopher Ricks, who unfolds a dazzling literary history of the phrase "Table Talk"; Leonard Michaels on why the waltz should be viewed as an aggressive, imperialist dance; and Claire Messud on the art of digression in fiction and conversation. Sigrid Nunez engages with the contemporary vogue for memoir and autobiography, while Luc Sante draws conclusions about postmodern art from a stray bit of graffiti glimpsed on a New York street. Other contributions include Alexander Nehamas on the NEA controversy that roiled the culture wars of the 1990s and Paula Fox's tips for interacting with difficult children. Ninety-nine pieces become a garden of literary delights, as Table Talk takes an irreverent walk on the wild side of philosophical and cultural speculation that will resonate with readers of any age. "--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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