Janet Malcolm
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English
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Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism using the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision, a book about the crime. McGinnis lived with MacDonald's defense team during the trial, concealing his opinion of MacDonald's guilt until publication. McGinniss additionally diagnosed MacDonald in the book as a "pathological narcissist" based upon his own amateur research. Malcolm...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A collection of previously published essays and profiles by the legendary critic Janet Malcolm. The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's looking at you." But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist...
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English
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This volume explores the legacy of the works of American writer and poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). The author discusses how Plath's reputation was forged from the poems she wrote just before her suicide; how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters - Plath's art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting...
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English
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"In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K.R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud...
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English
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A journey of faith and healing power when you're battling long-term illness. The incredible journey of someone who put their faith into action… and survived cancer.
"Pancreatic cancer... seemed to have a long-winded echo as the doctor spoke. Maybe those weren't the words you or someone you love received; maybe the words echoed were a different form of cancer, terminal illness. Whatever your reasons are, I wrote this book with you in mind."
The...