Isham Cook
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Ballard, Beckett, Borges, Dick, Kafka, Hesse, Melville, Mishima, Sade
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American Rococo: Essays on the Edge
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2017
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The Kitchens of Canton
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The Mustachioed Woman of Shanghai
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Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews
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At the Teahouse Cafe: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
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2015
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Lust & Philosophy
8 editions
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2012
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The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China
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2014
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Massage and the Writer
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2014
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Sexual Fascism: Essays
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Selected Poems
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Sleepwalking through China: The true story of an American teacher in a foreign land:
"I came to this book with a jaundiced eye. I found it pretentious for the author to use a Chinese pseudonym and presumptuous to declare in the blurb on the back cover that "most people get China wrong, [sic] I want to set the record straight." At time"
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No, because to be frank I don't often read translations of Chinese literature in English. I'm actually more interested in Chinese authors who write in English (e.g., Han Jin, Xiaolu Guo) and expat authors writing about China.
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If nothing else, a novel should be instructive. This novel was a trying read but I managed to get through it and learned how NOT to live life. It’s a well-regarded novel and is indeed competently written, but it’s a dreary story, with the most tediou ...more | |
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So fascinating you don't notice the 900 pages. Tidbits from the section on the Puritans in 17th-c. New England: It was illegal to be single. Tithingmen regularly barged in and inspected every family. Bachelors were rounded up and forced to live with ...more | |
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From what I understand of William Leonard Pickard's background, he was trained as a chemist (after an aborted first semester at Princeton as an undergraduate) and spent most of his years manufacturing LSD (ultimately in an abandoned nuclear missile s ...more | |
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I was prepared to go along with, even endorse, Laurie Penny's contention that white male entitlement is almost exclusively to blame for our society's burden of sexism and sexual violence because, well, if we are honest about it, there's much truth to ...more | |
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Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
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Everything dystopian you think is happening -- in both China and the rest of the world including the US -- is happening. One of the many striking facts in this new book is that almost all of the companies involved in developing the apparatuses for di ...more | |
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Nothing in David Corn's new book wasn't already known, but he pulls it all together and his history of the GOP makes for an excellent page-turning refresher course. What's indisputably clear is that the Republican Party is and has long been (at least ...more | |
“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Lust and Philosophy
― Lust and Philosophy
“Andrew Solomon, in his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, traces the links between addiction and depression, which frequently co-occur, as well as the intimate relationship between depression and anxiety. He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as “fraternal twins”: “Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.” Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.”
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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