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The Unspeakable

Author : Meghan Daum
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710066
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Unspeakable written by Meghan Daum and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daum is her generation's Joan Didion." —Nylon Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal essay with The Unspeakable, a masterful collection of ten new works. Her old encounters with overdrawn bank accounts and oversized ambitions in the big city have given way to a new set of challenges. The first essay, "Matricide," opens without flinching: People who weren't there like to say that my mother died at home surrounded by loving family. This is technically true, though it was just my brother and me and he was looking at Facebook and I was reading a profile of Hillary Clinton in the December 2009 issue of Vogue. Elsewhere, she carefully weighs the decision to have children—"I simply felt no calling to be a parent. As a role, as my role, it felt inauthentic and inorganic"—and finds a more fulfilling path as a court-appointed advocate for foster children. In other essays, she skewers the marriage-industrial complex and recounts a harrowing near-death experience following a sudden illness. Throughout, Daum pushes back against the false sentimentality and shrink-wrapped platitudes that surround so much of contemporary American experience and considers the unspeakable thoughts many of us harbor—that we might not love our parents enough, that "life's pleasures" sometimes feel more like chores, that life's ultimate lesson may be that we often learn nothing. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the New Age search for the "Best Possible Experience," champions the merits of cream-of mushroom-soup casserole, and gleefully recounts a quintessential "only-in-L.A." story of playing charades at a famous person's home. Combining the piercing insight of Joan Didion with humor reminiscent of Nora Ephron's, Daum dissects our culture's most dangerous illusions, blind spots, and sentimentalities while retaining her own joy and compassion. Through it all, she dramatizes the search for an authentic self in a world where achieving an identity is never simple and never complete.

The Unspeakable

Author : Denise Brown
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139587
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Unspeakable written by Denise Brown and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On March 6, 1998, a disgruntled employee went on a rampage at the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, killing four executives before turning the gun on himself. The tragedy made headlines and topped newscasts across the country for weeks. In The Unspeakable, Denise Brown, who lost her husband in the shootings, gives voice to the deeper part of the story left untold by the tabloids." "The Unspeakable is based on the author's journal entries of the year following her husband's death - a record of debilitating nightmares and fears, of fruitless encounters with cooperation and state officials, of the struggle to help her children cope with the loss of a devoted father. It charts a path from bitterness to hope, and reveals the difficult steps that a survivor must take to move beyond rage and rise above the profound and complicated grief that is the legacy of violence."--BOOK JACKET.

Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People

Author : John Conroy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230392
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People written by John Conroy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of torture (in the name of the state) in three democracies (Israel, Northern Ireland, and the United States) by John Conroy, a Chicago journalist with a strong following among readers who know his previous book (a war diary of life in Belfast).

The Unspeakable People: Being Twenty of the World's Most Horrible Horror Stories

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unspeakable People: Being Twenty of the World's Most Horrible Horror Stories written by Peter Haining and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raids on the Unspeakable

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201018
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Raids on the Unspeakable written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1966 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperbook collection of his prose writings reveals the extent to which Thomas Merton moved from the other-worldly devotion of his earlier work to a direct, deeply engaged, often militant concern with the critical situation of man in the world.

Unspeakable

Author : Susan Burch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807884348
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable written by Susan Burch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life. Using legal records, institutional files, and extensive oral history interviews--some conducted in sign language--Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner piece together the story of a deaf man accused in 1925 of attempted rape, found insane at a lunacy hearing, committed to the criminal ward of the State Hospital for the Colored Insane, castrated, forced to labor for the institution, and held at the hospital for more than seven decades. Junius Wilson's life was shaped by some of the major developments of twentieth-century America: Jim Crow segregation, the civil rights movement, deinstitutionalization, the rise of professional social work, and the emergence of the deaf and disability rights movements. In addition to offering a bottom-up history of life in a segregated mental institution, Burch and Joyner's work also enriches the traditional interpretation of Jim Crow by highlighting the complicated intersections of race and disability as well as of community and language. This moving study expands the boundaries of what biography can and should be. There is much to learn and remember about Junius Wilson--and the countless others who have lived unspeakable histories.

Speaking about the Unspeakable

Author : Dennis McCarthy
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781846427961
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Speaking about the Unspeakable written by Dennis McCarthy and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008-05-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children do not always have the capacity or need to express themselves through words. They often succeed in saying more about their feelings and experiences by communicating non-verbally through play and other expressive, creative activities. The basic premise of Speaking about the Unspeakable is that life's most pivotal experiences, both good and bad, can be truly expressed via the language of the imagination. Through creativity and play, children are free to articulate their emotions indirectly. The contributors, all experienced child therapists, describe a wide variety of non-verbal therapeutic techniques, including clay, sand, movement and nature therapy, illustrating their descriptions with moving case studies from their professional experience. Accessible and engaging, this book will inspire child psychologists and therapists, art therapists and anyone with an interest in therapeutic work with children.

JFK and the Unspeakable

Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439193886
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book JFK and the Unspeakable written by James W. Douglass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ACCLAIMED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, with a reading group guide and a new afterword by the author. At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up. Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President’s motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.

The Unspeakable Unknown

Author : Eliot Sappingfield
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1524738484
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Unspeakable Unknown written by Eliot Sappingfield and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Nikola Kross's father, who was kidnapped by extraterrestrials, is still missing and it is up to Nikola and her new friends at the secret boarding school for scientific geniuses to rescue him in this sequel to "A Problematic Paradox."

Unspeakable

Author : Herb Orrell
Publisher : Bayou Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781886298149
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable written by Herb Orrell and published by Bayou Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By offering the first new perspective on grieving in more than thirty years, author Herb Orrell challenges everything we've been led to believe about the grieving process. Breathtakingly honest and insightful, he shows us grief the way it really is and healing in a way that's finally possible. Through his own journey and the stories of those he's counseled, you begin to see the often surprising ways each of us can make peace with our pain.

My Misspent Youth

Author : Meghan Daum
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250067650
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book My Misspent Youth written by Meghan Daum and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first collection from an acclaimed young essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. Daum speaks to questions at the root of the contemporary experience, from the search for authenticity and interpersonal connection in a society defined by consumerism and media to the disenchantment of working in a "glamour profession".

Unspeakable

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1510712747
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable written by Chris Hedges and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot. The War on Terror is a profitable crusade against convenient enemies. “Muslim rage” is an understandable response to US state terror. Rising oligarchy in America has made democracy a sham and turned the electoral process into an increasingly absurd circus. Police violence against minorities is part of a systematic effort to crush social discontent. Proliferating violence against women’s health clinics is part of the war on women’s bodies. Freedom of speech is an illusion, with government agencies and corporate media dictating acceptable boundaries of public discourse. America’s only hope is a revolution to create genuine structures of popular power. This kind of insight into America’s deeply troubled current state cannot be found on television, in the pages of leading newspapers, or on Google News. Many of our most important thinkers are relegated to the shadows because their ideas are deemed too radical—or true—for public consumption. Among these intellectual bomb throwers is Chris Hedges, who, after decades on the front lines, continues to confront power in America in the most incisive, challenging ways. Hedges’s unfettered conversation with Hot Books editorial director David Talbot— founder of Salon and author of New York Times bestseller, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government—will be the first in a series for Hot Books called “Unspeakable,” featuring some of the most important – and censored – voices in the world today.

The Unspeakable and Others

Author : Dan Clore
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 8799839903
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Unspeakable and Others written by Dan Clore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misanthropic tales of the macabre and the outré with a unique blend of the grotesque and the perverse. Enter the Lovecraftian universe of screaming horrors and Cthulhuvian insanity. Experience dark wonders and fantastic tales in bizarre worlds. These visions are what nightmares are made of. Throbbing at the heart of it all is the grotesque Lord Weÿrdgliffe and his web of penny dreadfuls. In addition: bleak, satirical stories and essays with subjects ranging from the serious to the outrageous and hilarious, plus dark poetry. This collection has it all. Artwork by Allen Koszowski. Foreword by S. T. Joshi. ""I cannot speculate who his authorial parents are, perhaps Andre Breton, Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Ligotti."" DON WEBB ""The works of Dan Clore collected in this collection are rare jewels of imaginative fiction ... Dan Clore is a mad monk, recording the fantastical histories of an insane alternate universe." SEAN O'LEARY

Unspeakable

Author : Abbie Todd
Publisher : Atom
ISBN 13 : 0349002053
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable written by Abbie Todd and published by Atom. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megan doesn't speak. She hasn't spoken in months. Pushing away the people she cares about is just a small price to pay. Because there are things locked inside Megan's head - things that are screaming to be heard - that she cannot, must not, let out. Then Jasmine starts at school: bubbly, beautiful, talkative Jasmine. And for reasons Megan can't quite understand, life starts to look a bit brighter. Megan would love to speak again, and it seems like Jasmine might be the answer. But if she finds her voice, will she lose everything else?

The List of Unspeakable Fears

Author : J. Kasper Kramer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534480757
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The List of Unspeakable Fears written by J. Kasper Kramer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this “deliciously creepy” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade historical novel following an anxious young girl learning to face her fears—and her ghosts—against the backdrop of the typhoid epidemic. Essie O’Neill is afraid of everything. She’s afraid of cats and electric lights. She’s afraid of the silver sick bell, a family heirloom that brings up frightening memories. Most of all, she’s afraid of the red door in her nightmares. But soon Essie discovers so much more to fear. Her mother has remarried, and they must move from their dilapidated tenement in the Bronx to North Brother Island, a dreary place in the East River. That’s where Essie’s new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurable sick, including the infamous Typhoid Mary. Essie knows the island is plagued with tragedy. Years ago, she watched in horror as the ship General Slocum caught fire and sank near its shores, plummeting one thousand women and children to their deaths. Now, something on the island is haunting Essie. And the red door from her dreams has become a reality, just down the hall from her bedroom in her terrifying new house. Convinced her stepfather is up to no good, Essie investigates. Yet to uncover the truth, she will have to face her own painful history—and what lies behind the red door.

Unspeakable Things

Author : Laurie Penny
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408826089
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable Things written by Laurie Penny and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for The Green Carnation Prize 2014 'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.' Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism, activism and underground culture. This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in the streets and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual freedom for men and women and social justice – and feminism needs to get braver. Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and equality, but also about freedom for all. It's about the freedom to be who we are, to love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against those who would deny us those rights. It is a book that gives the silenced a voice – a voice that speaks of unspeakable things.

Gandhi and the Unspeakable

Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331075
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Gandhi and the Unspeakable written by James W. Douglass and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, at the dawn of his country's independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he previously did with the story of JFK how police and security forces were complicit in the assassination and how in killing one man, they hoped to destroy his vision of peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. Gandhi had long anticipated and prepared for this fate. In reviewing the little-known story of his early "experiments in truth" in South Africa the laboratory for Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha, or truth force Douglass shows how early he confronted and overcame the fear of death. And, as with his account of JFK's death, he shows why this story matters: what we can learn from Gandhi's truth in the struggle for peace and reconciliation today.