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"I honestly don't know why someone would want to read this book outside of an academic context. However, for research purposes, we can add two more stars.
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Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers (Hardcover) by Michael A. Banks |
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Antigone: Methuen Student Edition (Paperback) by Jean Anouilh |
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Slam (Paperback) by Nick Hornby |
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Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Paperback) by Chuck Palahniuk bookshelves: prudes-beware |
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Survivor: A Novel (Paperback) by Chuck Palahniuk bookshelves: prudes-beware |
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read in July, 2008
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"Another insightful, satirical, crass masterpiece--that's it, it's a crassterpiece, right up there with Choke as one of my favorites.
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Willy and Hugh (Paperback) by Anthony Browne bookshelves: for-kids |
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Lying Awake (Paperback) by Mark Salzman |
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read in January, 2000
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"Eight years later I have forgotten the details about this novel, except that it deals with spirituality v. science through the life of a nun in a Carmelite monastery and that the prose was beautifully restrained. It is a short but rewarding read.
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The Book Thief (Hardcover) by Markus Zusak |
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback) by Gabriel García Márquez |
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Marc's favorite quotes
"It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone."
— Nick Hornby (How to Be Good)
— Nick Hornby (How to Be Good)
"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
"I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?""
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
"We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)
Marc's writing
Insect Poetics (History)
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From bees to cockroaches, maps out the important role of insects in our imagination.
Insects are everywhere. There are millions of species sharing the world with humans and other animals. Though literally woven into the fabric of human affairs, insects are considered alien from the human world. Animal studies and rights have become a fecund field, but for the most part scant attention has been paid to the relationship between insects and humans. Insect Poetics redresses that imbalance by welcoming insects into the world of letters and cultural debate.
In Insect Poetics, the first book to comprehensively explore the cultural and textual meanings of bugs, editor Eric Brown argues that insects are humanity’s “other.” In order to be experienced, the insect world must be mediated by art or technology (as in the case of an ant farm or Kafka’s Metamorphoses) while humans observe, detached and fascinated.
In eighteen original essays, this book illuminates the ways in which our human intellectual and cultural models have been influenced by the natural history of insects. Through critical readings contributors address such topics as performing insects in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, the cockroach in the contemporary American novel, the butterfly’s “voyage out” in Virginia Woolf, and images of insect eating in literature and popular culture.
In surprising ways, contributors tease out the particularities of insects as cultural signifiers and propose ways of thinking about “insectivity,” suggesting fertile cross-pollinations between entomology and the arts, between insects and the humanities.
Contributors: May Berenbaum, Yves Cambefort, Marion W. Copeland, Nicky Coutts, Bertrand Gervais, Sarah Gordon, Cristopher Hollingsworth, Heather Johnson, Richard J. Leskosky, Tony McGowan, Erika Mae Olbricht, Marc Olivier, Roy Rosenstein, Rachel Sarsfield, Charlotte Sleigh, Andre Stipanovic.
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