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A Hitch in Time

Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

by Christopher Hitchens ...

In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of ... Read more

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In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of
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Critical Mass

Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

by James Wolcott ...

A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our timeFrom his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies, and television to the literary criticism of the eighties and nineties that made him both feared and famous to ... Read more

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A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our timeFrom his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies, and television to the literary criticism of the eighties and nineties that made him both feared and famous to
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Lucking Out

My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies

by James Wolcott ...

"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering ... Read more

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"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering
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The Catsitters

A Novel

by James Wolcott ...

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A Hitch in Time

Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

by Christopher Hitchens ...

Narrated by James Wolcott, Hannibal Hills ...

Unabridged

10 hours 54 min

In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of
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The Ritz of the Bayou

The New Orleans Adventures of a Young Novelist Covering the Trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering ... and other aspects of life in the tropic zone

by Nancy Lemann ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Unabridged

4 hours 10 min

In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This fortieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans–born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned ... Read more

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In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This fortieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans–born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned
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Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror

by James Wolcott ...

Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a hilarious and scathing critique of the so-called news establishment. Wolcott’s book pokes, prods, and stirs up controversy. It also makes some serious points about the lamentable state of our news, and our nation. ... Read more

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Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a hilarious and scathing critique of the so-called news establishment. Wolcott’s book pokes, prods, and stirs up controversy. It also makes some serious points about the lamentable state of our news, and our nation.
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We May Dominate the World

Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

by Sean A Mirski ...

Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

Unabridged

15 hours 32 min

What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for todayThe cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own ... Read more

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What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for todayThe cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own
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Disillusioned

Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

by Benjamin Herold ...

Narrated by Benjamin Herold, Bethany Smith ...

Unabridged

13 hours 30 min

**"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates ... Read more

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**"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates
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Third Millennium Thinking

Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

by Saul Perlmutter, PhD, Robert MacCoun, PhD, John Campbell, PhD ...

Narrated by Joe Paulino ...

Unabridged

11 hours 10 min

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems—individually and collectively—using scientists’ tricks of the trade.In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does that article ... Read more

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Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems—individually and collectively—using scientists’ tricks of the trade.In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does that article
... Read more

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Status and Culture

How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

by W. David Marx ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

13 hours 8 min

**"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process
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The Lede

Dispatches from a Life in the Press

by Calvin Trillin ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

10 hours 4 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin“The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes hash out of all of us.”—Dwight Garner, The New York ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin“The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes hash out of all of us.”—Dwight Garner, The New York
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