Mikics, David
Summary: Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and improve concentration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.47 MIKSummary: A mainstay of countless American childhoods, MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. MAD became the zaniest, most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on America's newsstands, anticipating the spirit of underground comix and 'zines and influencing humor writing in movies, television, and the internet to this day. Edited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 MADBloom, Harold
Summary: The American Canon gathers five decades of Bloom's essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from several of his books, weaving them together into an unrivalled tour of the great American bookshelf. Always a champion of aesthetic power, Bloom tells the story of our national literature in terms of artistic struggle against powerful predecessors and the American thirst for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019