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Author Anna Winger grew up in Kenya, Massachusetts, and Mexico as the daughter of Harvard anthropologists. Today she is a professional photographer and the producer of NPR Worldwide’s “Berlin Stories." Her first novel, set in Berlin, is about the friendship between a fading actor and a young married American woman who are both learning to live with the past. "Anna Winger's debut is a breezily intelligent, emotionally hard-hitting, culturally insightful examination of people living 'abroad'—even within their own countries. Winger's post-wall Berlin becomes emblematic of our global triumphs and our global malaise. This novel is insanely impressive—and it's also a plain great read." —Heidi Julavits (The Uses of Enchantment) more...
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In this new book, Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis explores jazz and how an understanding of it can lead to deeper, more original ways of being, living, and relating—for individuals, communities, and nations. Marsalis shows us how to listen to jazz, and he reveals how the central ideas in jazz can influence the way people think and even how they behave with others. At the heart of jazz is the expression of personality and individuality, coupled with an ability to listen to and improvise with others."I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life—from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense." —Wynton Marsalis more...
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From its intriguing opening question—"How can we reasonably judge a meal?"—to its rewarding conclusion, this book picks up where Brillat-Savarin left off almost two centuries ago. Hervé This, Research Chemist at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique and a cofounder (with the late physicist Nicholas Kurti) of the new approach to studying the scientific basis of cooking known as molecular gastronomy, investigates the question of culinary beauty in a series of playful, lively, and erudite dialogues. Considering the place of cuisine in Western culture, This explores an astonishing variety of topics and elaborates a revolutionary method for judging the art of cooking. "An intellectual exercise wholly removed from food-entertainment television." —Booklist more...
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