Calendar of Regrets
Title | Calendar of Regrets PDF eBook |
Author | Lance Olsen |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | 457 |
Release | 2010-09-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1573661570 |
A wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel--through time, space, narrative, and death The poisoning of the painter Hieronymus Bosch; anchorman Dan Rather’s mysterious mugging on Park Avenue as he strolls home alone one October evening; a series of postcard meditations on the idea of travel from a young American journalist visiting Burma; a husband-and-wife team of fundamentalist Christian suicide bombers; the myth of Iphigenia from Agamemnon’s daughter’s point of view—these and other stories form a mosaic, connected through a pattern of musical motifs, transposed scenes, and recurring characters. It is a narrative about narrativity itself, the human obsession with telling ourselves and our worlds over and over again in an attempt to stabilize a truth that, as Nabokov once said, should only exist within quotation marks.
Calendar of the Gerrit Smith Papers in the Syracuse University Library
Title | Calendar of the Gerrit Smith Papers in the Syracuse University Library PDF eBook |
Author | Works Progress Administration. Division of Community Services Programs. Historical Records Survey |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 618 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | Syracuse University Library (Syracuse, N.Y.) |
ISBN |
The Shepherd's Calendar
Title | The Shepherd's Calendar PDF eBook |
Author | John Clare |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 167 |
Release | 2014-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0199672229 |
A work of rural beauty by John Clare, one of the greatest pastoral poets of nineteenth century English literature.
Calendar of the Correspondence of James Monroe
Title | Calendar of the Correspondence of James Monroe PDF eBook |
Author | James Monroe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Calendar of the Correspondence of James Madison
Title | Calendar of the Correspondence of James Madison PDF eBook |
Author | James Madison |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 834 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Calendar of the American Fur Company's Papers
Title | Calendar of the American Fur Company's Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Lee Nute |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1034 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Fur trade |
ISBN |
Regret the Error
Title | Regret the Error PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Silverman |
Publisher | Union Square + ORM |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2010-09-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1402774494 |
This look at careless journalism—from hilarious mistakes to egregious ethical lapses—is “chock-full of amusing historical anecdotes” (Publishers Weekly). Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism We regret the error: it’s a phrase that appears in newspapers almost daily, the standard notice that something went terribly wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. From Craig Silverman, the proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, one of the Internet’s most popular media-related websites, comes a collection of funny, shocking, and sometimes disturbing journalistic slip-ups and corrections. On display are all types of media inaccuracy—from typos to “fuzzy math” to “obiticide” (printing the obituary of a person very much alive and well) to complete and utter ethical lapses. While some of the errors can be laugh-out-loud funny, the book also serves as a sobering journey through the history of media mistakes (including the outrageous hoaxes that dominated newspapers during the circulation wars of the nineteenth century) and a serious muckraking investigation of contemporary journalism’s lack of accountability to the public. Regret the Error shines a spotlight on the media’s carelessness and the sometimes tragic and calamitous consequences of weak or non-existent fact checking. “Mixing humorous corrections taken from large and small newspapers alike, Silverman gives historical context to the current problems . . . and then proposes solutions for busy newsrooms.” —Variety