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The Israeli writer Amos Oz remarked on Charlie Rose's PBS interview show recently that he walks in the desert among the ancient stones near his home every morning to "put things in perspective". To me Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" is one of those lasting touchstones. With it I judge the quality of my own work and that of other writers. Editor Jason Shinder's twenty-six essay collection The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a book that I have kept on my night-table for a long time because it is fascinating to read how others value Ginsberg's 1956 poem, or not (the book is not all panegyric).
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, legendary investor, was famous for saying, "The four most dangerous words in investing are, 'This time it's different.'" Though history doesn't repeat, not exactly, he knew that history is an excellent guide for investors. In Markets Never Forget (But People Do), long-time Forbes columnist and CEO of Fisher Investments, , takes aim at some major market memory mishaps -- like the idea that stocks have become inherently more volatile or that wildly above- or below-average returns are abnormal. He shows how, early in every recovery, investors don't believe in it, often at a huge cost. In investing, ideology is deadly.
For another great book on a similar subject, check out This Time is Different by and .
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Wesley Case abandons his wealthy father's expectations and chooses life in the NWMP of 1876, where he befriends Major James Walsh. Later Case takes up ranching in Montana where he spies for Walsh on the American government's obliteration of its remaining Indian tribes. As Sitting Bull and the Sioux drift across the border into Canada, Case observes Walsh's efforts to support them. Case falls in love with the redoubtable widow Ida Tarr but doesn't count on the murderous intentions of Michael Dunne, a roughneck who is also vying for Ida's attention. rich, compassionate exploration of Sitting Bull's character glitters through multiple strands of hope and desperation as government treachery and personal tragedy set the stage in this fabulous story of the early west. A Good Man completes a trio of novels with western settings by that includes The Last Crossing and The Englishman's Boy. Categories: Reviews, New Releases
This week saw the passing of , an underrated giant of fantasy, experimental fiction, and children's literature.
Generations of readers will remember him for his wonderful children's picture books, including Bedtime for Frances and The Little Brute Family; others, for his 1980 post-apocalyptic masterpiece Riddley Walker, written entirely in a kind of devolved pidgin, and its brilliantly fractured take on British history, any recollection of which has been occluded by catastrophe.
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Tony looks back over his life with the advantage of experience, wisdom and thoughtful philosophical questions. But how does his former lover Veronica tie in with his friend Adrian's long-ago suicide? And why did Veronica's mother leave Adrian's diary to Tony in her will? As Tony says, "What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully?" Slowly but surely revealing what he has learned, Tony wonders as he approaches the ending of his life if it is enough.
Winner of this year's Booker Prize, The Sense of an Ending is meticulously written, offering its pleasures with subtlety and precision.
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