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Mary Cappello's seven books of literary nonfiction include a Los Angeles Times bestselling detour on awkwardness, a lyric biography, and the mood fantasia Life Breaks In. Her most recent book, Lecture, a speculative manifesto, inaugurates Transit Books' Undelivered Lecture Series. A former mostrar más Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she is a Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. mostrar menos
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A series of essays that are memoir, philosophy, psychology, and so much more, focused on trying to answer what is "mood": A thorough musing on the topic.
This is a terrible book. If it wasn't about a subject that should be interesting, it would just be a bad book, but it's an interesting topic ruined by fatuous pseudo-philosophical musings. The author has filled at least half the book with stream-of-consciousness drivel about the metaphysical meaning of ingestion. That is an offense worse than mere tediousness.
The topic of things that get swallowed and how to get them out without harming the patient is interesting, and Chevalier Jackson is an appropriate jumping off point for a book about the subject. Too bad this isn't that book. It took a great deal of effort to ferret out the actual history and science in this book, and really, I'm pretty sure it wasn't worth it.
Don't bother reading this. Chevalier Jackson and his collection deserved better.… (más)
The topic of things that get swallowed and how to get them out without harming the patient is interesting, and Chevalier Jackson is an appropriate jumping off point for a book about the subject. Too bad this isn't that book. It took a great deal of effort to ferret out the actual history and science in this book, and really, I'm pretty sure it wasn't worth it.
Don't bother reading this. Chevalier Jackson and his collection deserved better.… (más)
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I've never heard of Mary Cappello but what grabbed my attention was the quirky cool cover art and the subject matter. The Lecture. This appealed to me because I come from an art background and have heard my fair share of art talks and lectures. I've seen what is on my view a real decline in the art of a good well thought out as planned lecture. Fur those tired from the beginning of TED talk like marketing this critical look at the Lecture is timely and urgent.
Cappellos withing is bold and urgent and utterly beautiful. Lecture at least to me is set for an academic audience I feel it can have wide appeal to anyone with a love for critical thought and ideas.… (más)