![]() ![]() " stylish and thought-provoking collection of reflections.Walker's rich compilation adds up to a rewardingly insightful self-portrait that reveals how one man relates to various aspects of his identity." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction. Walker refuses to lull his readers instead his missives urge them to do better as they consider, through his eyes, how to be a good citizen, how to be a good father, how to live, and how to love. The result is a bracing and often humorous examination by one of America's most acclaimed essayists of what it is to grow, parent, write, and exist as a black American male. Whether confronting the medical profession's racial biases, considering the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson, paying homage to his writing mentor James Alan McPherson, or attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes, Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique. ![]() It is on the knife's edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. ![]() For the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, "anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline." ![]()
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From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society.īlythe Roberson’s sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() Going from a mediocre California high school to Columbia University, I was faced with the reality that I was not so smart or special as I had thought, and that there were a great many people who knew a great deal more than me about a great many things. ![]() College was, for me, pretty overwhelming. Rereading him now, I’m embarrassed that I ever took him seriously, though I can see what must have been appealing. So I took a class on Eastern religion and read the Tao Te Ching, and I went to a couple of meetings of a campus group of Korean Taoists who all wore suits and ties and instructed me to chant until I could raise water from a bowl placed in front of me, but mostly I read Benjamin Hoff like everyone else. In college, I had a minor romantic entanglement with a hippie who changed my life by giving me a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, putting me on a Green Tortoise bus (she was eager to get me the hell out of Eugene, Oregon, where I was moping about because she had a new boyfriend when I came to visit), and telling me to look into Taoism. Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992) ![]() ![]() ![]() A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. 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From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage-called a “fast-moving thinking man’s thriller” by The Wall Street Journal-comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.īerlin 1948. ![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters even stranger, it's unclear who (if anyone) actually said the phrase Pence is referring to. The internet collectively had a "WTF" moment over Pence's use of an esoteric Ronald Reagan quote and made sure to let Pence know it. If you've found yourself feeling dumbfounded, you're not alone. 'I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.' -Pres. On May 12, the current vice president tweeted out a photo of himself standing next to a white horse, but it was his head-scratching caption that no one could understand. If you thought President Donald Trump's first 100 days were strange, just wait until you read Mike Pence's latest tweet. 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