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020			_a9781611175097 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aPN51 _b.O348 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aZane, J. Peder. _e1
245	1	0	_aOff the books : _bon literature and culture / _cJ. Peder Zane.
260			_aColumbia : _bUniversity of South Carolina Press, _c(c)2015.
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520	0		_a"Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential for understanding ourselves and the world around us. The one hundred and thirty columns gathered in Off the Books find that sweet spot where literature's eternal values meet the day's current events. Together they offer a literary overview of the ideas, issues, and events shaping our culture--from 9/11 and the struggle for gay rights to the decline of high culture and the rise of sensationalism and solipsism. As they plumb and draw from the work of leading writers--from William Faulkner, Knut Hamsun, and Eudora Welty to Don DeLillo, Lydia Millet, and Philip Roth--these columns make an argument not just about the pleasure of books, but about their very necessity in our lives and culture"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aCover -- _tOFF THE BOOKS -- _tTitle -- _tCopyright -- _tDedication -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tBetween the Covers: Classic Fiction -- _tEudora Welty: The Writers' Writer -- _tJohn Fante: What the Boys Read -- _tKnut Hamsun: Risking a Literary Friendship -- _tGeorges Simenon: Rediscovering a Literary Phenomenon -- _tWalter Brooks: The World According to Freddy the Pig -- _tRobert Penn Warren-A King Restored: Round Two for an American Classic -- _tThomas/Tom Wolfe: The Man Who Cried Wolfe -- _tRalph Ellison: Popeye vs. The Invisible Man -- _tNadezhda Mandelstam: Spanish Wine and Oranges -- _tBeyond the Covers: Contemporary Fiction -- _tE. L. Doctorow: The Civil War in All Its Raging Glory -- _tRichard Slotkin: 11 Openings to Abe Lincoln -- _tDan Brown: I've Cracked the Code of 'Da Vinci Code' Hypomania -- _tHaruki Murakami: A Writer Who Takes on the World -- _tLydia Millet: A Daring Tale of a Lonely Heart -- _tNicholson Baker: Bomb-Throwing Book Against Bush Fizzles -- _tDon DeLillo's Sound And Fury -- _tTom Wolfe: Far from Empty, Not Quite Full -- _tThomas Pynchon: Another Monument in Pynchonland -- _tNorman Mailer Celebrates Himself, Again -- _tPhilip Roth for MVP -- _tSouthern Writing Lives -- _tDavid Sedaris: Him Write Pretty -- _tJonathan Miles: Author Keeps the Tales Pouring -- _tJonathan Williams: Nosing Out Talent -- _tReynolds Price: Rooted in His Native Soil -- _tEudora Welty's Passing: A Death in the Family -- _tWilliam Faulkner's Literary Legacy -- _tFellowship of Southern Writers Seeks Future As Bright As Its Past -- _tJust the Facts? Nonfiction Reviews -- _tThey Had Their Troubles -- _tWe Have Ours -- _tQuick, Fast, in a Hurry -- _tOur Machines, Our Selves -- _tHow to Idle in the Fast Lane -- _tOur Children, Ourselves -- _tAdventures in Literature's Gray Area -- _tSelf-Service Happiness -- _tA Feminist in Bold Relief -- _tA Poor Excuse for Compassion.
505	0	0	_aThinking Outside the Penalty Box -- _tThe Heartbreak Behind the Buzz -- _tInk-Stained History -- _tCrunching Numbers, Finding Us -- _tParadox and Poetry of Chernobyl -- _tOnly an Empty Memory? -- _tTaking Cover: The Assault on the Book Business -- _tA Room with a Low Ceiling -- _tAmerica the Literate -- _tIf You're Hip Say Golly Gee Whillikers -- _tBan the Book! Really! -- _tThe Words That Sell the Words -- _tOprah's Little Golden Books -- _tHigh Art, High Dudgeon -- _tBound by Time -- _tNothing to Be Ashamed Of -- _tBinding Devotion: Book Culture -- _tThe Book on Wilt Chamberlain -- _tThe Book on the 20th Century -- _tThe Real Power of Books -- _tWhere Books Lead We Follow -- _tA Simple Plan -- _tThe Best Gift Reveals Yourself -- _tCure for the Blues Is a Click Away -- _tNovels Found in Translation -- _tKnow-How for the New Millennium: Fire and the Art of Library Maintenance -- _tCritics Need More Than a Thumb -- _tThe New American Dream -- _tHaving a Baby by the Book -- _tAnything Goes: New Standards, Shifting Boundaries -- _tLack of Curiosity Is Curious -- _tReading Loses in This War -- _tSo Long Moby, Hello Aquaman -- _tWe're Servants of the Overload -- _tDaily Nuggets of Wisdom -- _tIdiot's Delight: The Age of the Moron -- _tReally?: Truth and Truthiness -- _tTruth, Facts, and CBS -- _tNew Media: Too Much of a Good Thing? -- _tNo Lie, We Live in An Age of Truth -- _tWe Know It, but We Can't Prove It -- _tPsst, I've Got a Secret -- _tSensationalism: Nothing More Than Feelings -- _tNews As Spectacle (March 13, 2005) -- _tMedia Sell the Sizzle of Small-Minded Stories -- _tLittleton: Madness Magnified -- _tSecondhand Emotions: When TV Filters Our Feelings, They Become Pale Imitations of Life -- _tIn Search of Amazement -- _tLetting It All Hang Out: The Rise of Raunch -- _tThough Our Goodness Grows, a Culture of Cruelty Thrives -- _tParanoids Return! But Exhibitionists Seize the Day -- _tNo More Plain Brown Wrappers.
505	0	0	_aWhen Culture Goes Raunchy -- _tTaking Aim at Graphic Concerns -- _tIdentity: Race, Gay Rights, and 9/11 -- _tThe History We Choose to Forget -- _tA White Man's View of Blacks -- _tA Black Woman's View of Whites -- _tImus's Sin Stains Many -- _tA Hard Look at the Slaveholding Fathers of Our Country -- _tStill the Same Old Same Old -- _tFor Men, "Straight" Label Is Inflexible -- _tMarriage of Our Hearts and Minds -- _tThe Beginning of Dialogue -- _tThe Age of the Fear of Terror -- _tWhat's Up with the Muslims? -- _tAssimilation and Its Discontents -- _tNo-Brainers Meet the Brainwashed -- _tNew Directions in a Changing Landscape -- _tThe Perils of the Luckiest Generation -- _tFriendly, from Afar -- _tFeeling All Righteous -- _tHiding from the Silence of the Mind -- _tParents Give Traditional Names Creative Twists -- _tAn Old-Fashioned Icon in a Fragmented Culture -- _tIf Mother Superior Speaks, Listen -- _tYou Are at Your Service -- _tNowadays, It's Easy to Hear Women Roar -- _tMen Peek Out from the Cave -- _tMy Children's Bookshelf Is a Battleground -- _tPeter Pan Literature Takes Flight -- _tHappy Days in a Grumble-Free Land -- _tWhen Our Lives Become iMovies.
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650		0	_aLiterature and society.
650		0	_aBooks and reading.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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