Author: Meghan Daum
Publisher: Grove Press, Open City Books
Keywords: essays, youth, misspent
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1890447269
ISBN-13: 9781890447267

Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well-remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper’s about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. She spea

Author: Al Venter
Publisher: Casemate Pub
Keywords: moments, combat, misspent, correspondent, gun, war, barrel
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2010-10-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1935149253
ISBN-13: 9781935149255

"Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn’t spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday." So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare-on the ground and as the bullets are flying. While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J. Venter-from some strange compulsion unexplainable even by him-has felt the need to see them all in person, preferably at the center of the action.Born in South Africa, Venter has found no shortage o