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The Machine
This is the never-before told story of Booking's rise, zenith and moral decay
Branding Books Across the Ages
As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, they have been both the object and the initiator of a complex marketing process. This book analyzes this branding process throughout the centuries, focusing on the case of the Netherlands. To what extent is our experience of Dutch literature prefigured by brands, and what role does branding play when introducing European authors in the Dutch literary field (or vice versa)? By answering these questions, the volume seeks to show how literary scholars can account for the phenomenon of branding.
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.
Stromboli
After her collapsed marriage a successful writer decides to go on retreat with a guru. But even there the past catches up with her.
Postgraduate Voices in Punk Studies
This volume represents the first academic collection to draw upon postgraduate research in exploring the punk scene. Cutting-edge studies, spanning both local and global contexts, are covered with contributions from a range of academic disciplines, including art and design, sociology, cultural studies, English, and music. The chapters are loosely focused around three themes: scenes; gender, “race” and sexuality; and therapy and laughter. The collection builds upon, and diversifies, existing academic work in punk studies covering such topics as “whitestraightboy” hegemony, straight-edge in France, CRT and the links between punk and the “rave” scene of the 1990s.
Vossenjagers
Op 8 april 1979 maakte de 26-jarige Breece D'J Pancake met een geweer een eind aan zijn leven. Hij liet twaalf verpletterende verhalen na over het harde, rurale leven in de heuvelachtige gebieden van West Virginia. Toen ze in 1983 postuum verschenen, maakten de verhalen grote indruk in de literaire wereld. Pancake vertelt over jonge mannen, afwezige of hardvochtige vaders en weglopende vriendinnen in een wereld vol mijnwerkers, prijsvechters, fossielen, hanengevechten, vossenjachten, seks, depressie, drank en dood.
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - attempts to seek recompense for the despoilation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman - a situation that goes from bad to worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners. In The Big Lebowski the Coen brothers have taken on the preoccupations of Raymond Chandler, but have given them a postmodern spin, while at the same time leaving Philip Marlowe's ethos intact as The Dude wanders thorugh the fractured world of nineties LA trying to do the right thing. Like the award-winning Fargo, The Big Lebowski is suffused with a droll humour and a verbal felicity that is as delightful as it is startling.
Najib
Najib Amhali is een van de bekendste en meest succesvolle cabaretiers van Nederland. Geboren in Nador, Marokko, maar opgegroeid in Krommenie als oudste van vier broers begon hij in de jaren negentig als stand-upcomedian bij de Comedy Train in kleine zaaltjes, voordat hij in 1998 definitief doorbrak bij het grote publiek na het winnen van zowel de jury- als de publieksprijs van het Leids Cabaret Festival. Sindsdien maakte hij negen avondvullende solovoorstellingen waarmee hij langs de grootste zalen van Nederland toerde, was hij als acteur te zien in onder meer Jezus is een Palestijn en Shouf Shouf Habibi en verkocht hij als eerste Nederlandse cabaretier de Ziggo Dome drie keer uit. Najib Amhali behoort tot de absolute top, maar toch kent ook zijn succes een keerzijde: jarenlang worstelde hij met een drank- en drugsverslaving die bijna het einde van zijn carrière en zijn huwelijk betekende. In deze biografie vertellen naast Najib zelf ook familie en vrienden openhartig over zijn leven: over zijn jeugd, de soms ingewikkelde familiebanden, het pad naar de roem en de prijs die hij betaalde voor het succes.
Where's the Dude?
"A great stocking filler for the slacker in your life" – Scottish Daily Record As featured on the Dudeism Facebook group — Unofficial and Unauthorised — You know The Dude. As the hapless hero of the Coen brothers' 1998 comedy, The Big Lebowski, this shaggy, laid–back burnout (memorably brought to life by Jeff Bridges) has become something of an unlikely pop culture icon. The kind of fella everyone can admire, if not necessarily aspire to. While he's most definitely a pacifist at heart, The Dude is not a man to sit idly by when a couple of thugs ransack his home and steal his most prized possession – his rug. Only trouble is, on his quest to find it, he seems to have gotten a little...
Street Messages
There is plenty of creativity within the international graffiti and street art scene. Writing text messages in public spaces has been a unique art form and a means of communication between humans for thousands of years. Many street artists work only with text, written messages or poems, and not necessarily only with colourful murals, styles, tags and logos. Street Messages is the first publication that delivers a deep insight into this literary form of expression in the world of global street art. We are confronted with a vast amount of written information in the form of advertising and street or shop signs every single day of our lives. Reading and decoding this information has become a dai...
