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Learning from tools.(children's books)(Recommended readings)
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the War, it's Workshop.--Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing (1978)
The required reading list of an American high school student usually includes, along with works by Remarque, Knowles, and Salinger, a famously awful "anonymous" offering called Go Ask Alice. The book, billed as the real diary of an average Sixties teen, chronicles a terrifying descent into drugs and depravity. Picture Marcia Brady helping William S. Burroughs tie her off in a public lavatory and you've got the idea.
The thing is, it isn't a real diary. Neither, unfortunately, are Jay's Journal (descent into Satanism), It ...
- Paper imaginings; Amazon worldwide bestselling fiction.(Special Topics in...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 19, 2006 700+ words
...selling novel is a surprise new entry MARISHA PESSL'S first novel was only published...Britain let alone be translated. Yet "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" has already garnered...pre-publication orders posted for "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" began to soar...
- Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
- Magazine article from: Swiss News June 1, 2007 700+ words
Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class, this tale reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free. ISBN 9780143112235, SFr 15.30
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Bookmarks November 1, 2006 700+ words
*** 1/2 Special Topics in Calamity Physics By Marisha Pessl A campus murder...after reading it, Special Topics leaves a much...of students, Special Topics bears resemblance...utterly compelled by Marisha Pessl's debut novel...
- Clueless in Carolina; Literary fireworks.(Special Topics in Calamity...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 19, 2006 700+ words
...Liaisons Dangereuses", "The Woman in White"--"Special Topics in Calamity Physics" spews out in-jokes, literary...this novel. A book to chuckle over and chuck away. Special Topics in Calamity Physics. By Marisha Pessl.
- Borders(R) Announces 2006 Original Voices Awards Nominees.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 21, 2006 700+ words
...History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier - Knopf "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian Vaughan - Vertigo "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl - Viking "The Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue - Nan Talese "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 22, 2006 700+ words
...History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier - Knopf "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian Vaughan - Vertigo "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl - Viking "The Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue - Nan Talese "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen...
- Why book tours are pass㩊L:.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Mendez, Teresa November 30, 2007 700+ words
...some sort of Web presence. (Blue van Meer, the fictional main character in the 2006 novel "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl, even has her own MySpace page.) Publicity departments used to be places where wacky ideas...
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- Magazine article from: Crain's Chicago Business Beau, Christina Le March 31, 2008 700+ words
...biographies of artists and political characters, plus "really good contemporary fiction'' like "Special Topics in Calamity Physics'' by Marisha Pessl, a "marvelous achievement'' for its abundant literary references and clever storytelling...
