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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Alarms and Discursions and enjoy GK Chesterton's prolific writing.

二言目には「バカヤロー!」が口を衝く、「強烈にして無比」なキャラクターでやってきたミュージシャンも、74歳。本当は臆病で小心者だけど、孫悟空に憧れて、暴れん坊キャラで生き抜いてきた。

In this extraordinary audiobook, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognise everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities, and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.

Michel de Montaigne, one of the foremost writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay, wrote on subjects ranging from friendship to imagination, from language to conscience. This collection includes 22 of Montaigne's essays, including "Of Prognostications," "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "Of Pedantry," and "Of Friendship."

Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. 

"Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel security, the kings with their cold faces, the decorous processes of State, the reasonable processes of law - all these like sheep had gone astray...."

恋愛というものは常に一時の幻影で、必ず亡び、さめるものだ、ということを知っている大人の心は不幸なものだ。恋愛は、人生の花。いかに退屈であろうとも、この他に花はない。無頼派の坂口安吾でもやはり

幻想性の色濃い作風で知られる昭和初期の作家、夢野久作のエッセイ。初出は「猟奇」［1931（昭和6）年］。「猟奇」の責任編集者であるモセイ＝河東茂生との出会いを綴る。

歴史的な観点から見ても、作家という職業は他のどんな職業よりも（ま、ジャズ・ミュージシャンやロックンローラーという強力なライバルもいますけど）、酒と密接な関係を保ってきました。なぜなのか？　酒はものを書く潤滑油だから。人間の情念や苦悩や心の闇と対峙していると、酒なしではやってられなくなるから。言葉を無から絞り出す作業そのものがきついから。編集者がやたらタダ酒を飲ますから。作家はバーやクラブで人気者だから。酒は物書きの美学だから。そもそも作家になるような人は酒なしではやってられないほど心に傷を負っているから……とまあ、いろいろな理由が挙げられてきたし、個人によってもまちまちだと思います。でも、とにかく、日本でも海外でも、酒好きの作家が多い、というのは事実です。(本文より)ロバート・ハリス　運命のダイスを転がせ！ はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/robert.html

This essay is from a series titled The Defendant, first published as a collection in 1901, after the individual essays were published in The Speaker. Here, a selection of these essays has been reissued by Voices of Today.

Espacios mágicos y rituales, laboratorios de la cultura y de la técnica, los pasajes permiten pensar el gran texto urbano desde sus notas a pie de página. En Barcelona hay cerca de cuatrocientos. Algunos son caminos que conducen a un pasado rural; otros, pasadizos proletarios o callejones de chabolas que hablan de la metrópolis fabril y del franquismo; los más famosos tienen forma de intersecciones ajardinadas y de galerías burguesas del siglo XIX; los más recientes están en polígonos industriales o acogen casas con piscina y restaurantes para turistas.

一人になった。さみしい。心細い。でもいちばんは、楽しみだ！いつもの朝ご飯と欠かさない晩酌。なんでもないけど好きな服。すぐ真似できる工夫で自分だけの人生を始める！

G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. Orthodoxy is his great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford.

学研サウンド文学館パルナスから、オーディオブックで厳選復刻。現代の文壇を代表する編集委員が、内外の作家の傑作を厳選。パルナスとは、「詩人」や「詩歌」という意味があります。

A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.

Marco Balzano ispirandosi nel titolo al film di Nanni Moretti Palombella Rossa, si interroga sul perché l'etimologia sia una scienza che non riceve la considerazione che merita nonostante eserciti, in chi ci si avvicina, un forte fascino. Attraverso quelli che a tutti gli effetti potremmo definire dieci scavi etimologici, ci dice che ogni parola ha un corpo da rispettare che non può essere stravolto a nostro piacimento. Perché ogni parola ha una sua identità e una sua vita autonoma.

Echoing the lyricism of Leonard Cohen and the lighthearted poignance of Anne Lamott, Suspended by No String is a thought-provoking anthology of spiritual reflections that will inspire listeners to reclaim their childlike sense of wonder. Suspended by No String is a collection of essays, personal narrative, and poetical reflections for listeners of all spiritual stripes—those who are devout, those who aren't sure what to believe, and those who may not be religious in a traditional sense but who nevertheless want to build a relationship with a force infinitely beyond themselves.

現代ビジネスで人気連載「水曜日のお嬢様」がついに書籍化。3月末に亡くなった神戸市立王子動物園のアイドル「タンタン」の生前の日常をつたえる写真日記。

Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.

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