Work Shy

2021-02-28 Fiction

Author : James Douglas Rosenthal
Release : 2021-02-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 194/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Work Shy by : James Douglas Rosenthal

Download or read book Work Shy written by James Douglas Rosenthal. This book was released on 2021-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an overdose, the unfortunate painter Edgar Bloom is dead. At the funeral, Douglas Frank (soft-boiled crime writer) is persuaded to look into his friend’s misadventure by Bloom’s long suffering widow. Did I mention she was beautiful? He discovers the artist’s diaries buried in the an unkempt studio. Frank’s agent, Ron Cranston (Albatross Books) urges him to write a brash expose featuring the dirty side of creative failure so Frank can rise in the literary food chain. What better way to get back at the elitist “Art Mob” for neglecting his friend Bloom and make a bit of cash? Ethical dilemmas multiply. Frank is asked to consult on a big museum exhibition by hard-nosed, curator, Martha Trout and Bloom’s resurrection takes on a life of its’ own. Bemused, Frank realizes he’s the only one who represents the disaffected artists of the world. To complicate matters, the success of the “Forgotten Poets” exhibition and subsequent book Work Shy soon has Hollywood knocking on his door. Publishers are thrilled. Is this a good thing asks the jaded writer? Sherrie Bloom is upset by the belated notoriety her dead husband receives and spurns amorous Frank. Our reluctant investigator must choose sides, live with the guilt or take the money and run.

The Work-Shy

2016-12-27 Poetry

Author : Blunt Research Group
Release : 2016-12-27
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 794/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Work-Shy written by Blunt Research Group. This book was released on 2016-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic "colonies" and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages offer direct testimony from the first youth prison in California and from asylums for the chronically insane (preserved in the Prinzhorn Collection in Germany and the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City). Painful facts emerge about "sterilization mills" in California, where thousands of individuals became subject to compulsory procedures (policies that shaped eugenics practice in the Third Reich). In addition, the poems "translate" asylum texts—the writing of the insane—into a wider field of social conflict and utopian fragments of not-yet-being. Activating what Susan Howe calls "the telepathy of the archive" (and Peter Gizzi dubs "archeophonics" in the title of his latest collection), the poems of The Work-Shy become part of a "book of listening," occupying identities rooted in the demimonde and in places of confinement. Voices echo to form a ragged chain of soliloquies, kenning and keening, riddles and rants. Published under the collective, anonymous signature of the BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, the book operates at the crossroads of lyric and documentary poetries, of singularity and collectivism. An online readers companion will be available at bluntresearchgroup.site.wesleyan.edu.

Goodbye to Shy

2006-07-12 Self-Help

Author : Leil Lowndes
Release : 2006-07-12
Genre : Self-Help
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Book Rating : 235/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Goodbye to Shy written by Leil Lowndes. This book was released on 2006-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say hello to new friends, new business opportunities, new love, and new confidence Okay, so you're shy. Here are 85 proven techniques to help you conquer your shyness and change your life for good. No psychobabble. No nonsense. These tested "ShyBusters" prepare you for that upcoming party, work function, interview, date, and the rest of your life. As someone who overcame debilitating shyness herself, professional speaker Leil Lowndes used this method to become a confident woman who has been interviewed on hundreds of TV and radio shows and has spoken to crowds of 10,000. You'll soon be making "fearless conversation" with people who used to intimidate you. You'll learn how to win the love you deserve and ask for whatever you want. You will overcome embarrassing stammering, sweating, clamming up, and wishing you were invisible. Good-Bye to Shy will show you how to: Make a stronger impression at work, at parties, in any situation Feel more relaxed around people, make eye contact, and spark conversations Boost your career, jump-start your social life, and open your heart to new possibilities Say Good-Bye to Shy--and hello to the happy, loving, confident person who's been hiding inside you.

Workshy

2017-10-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Dave Graney
Release : 2017-10-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 348/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Workshy written by Dave Graney. This book was released on 2017-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Australian showman Dave Graney returns to the page and reveals the lengths he has gone to avoid anything that really feels like work. In his inimitable style, Graney veers from a feckless childhood in blue-collar South Australia, to the punk rock scene of 1980s London, and beer-soaked nights touring Australia where he worked very hard at not working at all. But in slacking off, Graney became one of the hardest working musicians in the industry, constantly evolving, reinventing, staying one step ahead of everyone - even himself. Workshy is half written by Dave Graney the consummate and tireless performer, and half-written by Dave Graney the bludge. The magic is that you're never sure which is which.

Too Shy for Show-And-Tell

2012 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Beth Bracken
Release : 2012
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Too Shy for Show-And-Tell written by Beth Bracken. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam is a quiet litle boy who must conquer his fear of show-and-tell.

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