Dead People

2016-06-24 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Stefany Anne Golberg
Release : 2016-06-24
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dead People by : Stefany Anne Golberg

Download or read book Dead People written by Stefany Anne Golberg. This book was released on 2016-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn; musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.

How to Do Things with Dead People

2022-06-15 Literary Criticism

Author : Alice Dailey
Release : 2022-06-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How to Do Things with Dead People written by Alice Dailey. This book was released on 2022-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things—technologies such as literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning. By situating Shakespeare's historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes the context of a work of art and contests foundational models of linear temporality that inform long-standing conceptions of historical periodization and teleological order. Working from an eclectic body of theories, pictures, and machines that transcend time and media, Dailey composes a searching exploration of how the living use the dead to think back and look forward, to rule, to love, to wish and create.

Dead People Suck

2018-02-13 Self-Help

Author : Laurie Kilmartin
Release : 2018-02-13
Genre : Self-Help
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dead People Suck written by Laurie Kilmartin. This book was released on 2018-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying from Emmy-nominated writer and New York Times bestselling co-author of Sh*tty Mom Laurie Kilmartin. Death is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes the best way to cope is through humor. No one knows this better than comedian Laurie Kilmartin. She made headlines by live-tweeting her father’s time in hospice and her grieving process after he passed, and channeled her experience into a comedy special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad. Dead People Suck is her hilarious guide to surviving (sometimes) death, dying, and grief without losing your mind. If you are old and about to die, sick and about to die, or with a loved one who is about to pass away or who has passed away, there’s something for you. With chapters like “Are You An Old Man With Daughters? Please Shred Your Porn,” “If Cancer was an STD, It Would Be Cured By Now,” and “Unsubscribing Your Dead Parent from Tea Party Emails,” Laurie Kilmartin guides you through some of life’s most complicated moments with equal parts heart and sarcasm.

I Text Dead People

2015-06-09 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Rose Cooper
Release : 2015-06-09
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 21X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book I Text Dead People written by Rose Cooper. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't block the dead! The first novel in the Dead Serious series, in which a middle school girl bridges the gap between the living and the dead with her phone. Annabel Craven hopes she’ll fit in—maybe even be popular—at the Academy. She’s worried she’ll stay friendless and phoneless (it’s true). But when she finds a mysterious phone in the woods near the cemetery, one of her problems is solved . . . and another one is just beginning. Someone won’t stop texting her. And that someone seems . . . dead. How is Annabel supposed to make friends when her phone keeps blowing up with messages from the afterlife? And what will happen if she doesn’t text back? Includes morbidly-cute black-and-white illustrations! "Scary--but not too scary." --SLJ "Good, ghostly fun." --Kirkus Reviews

Driving with Dead People

2008-12-09 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Monica Holloway
Release : 2008-12-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 909/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Driving with Dead People written by Monica Holloway. This book was released on 2008-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with a father who drives his Ford pick up with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children. In between her father's bouts of violence and abuse, Monica becomes fast friends with Julie Kilner, whose father is the town mortician. She and Julie preferred the casket showroom to the parks and grassy backyards in her hometown of Elk Grove, Ohio, where they would take turns lying in their favourite coffins. In time, Monica and Julie get a job driving the company hearse to pick up bodies from the airport, yet even Monica's growing independence can't protect her from her parents' irresponsibility, and from the feeling that she simply does not deserve to be safe. Little does she know, as she finally strikes out on her own, that her parents' biggest betrayal has yet to be revealed...

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