Why publish a collection of columns, essays and reviews that have already appeared in print in various newspapers and magazines? To be candid, all writers enjoy seeing their journalistic work appear in the more permanent form of a book. On a more practical level, however, the reason for this compilation is that so many people have asked for it. When author Michael Coren speaks in public, when a particular column appears somewhere, when people read him in a newspaper or watch him on television for the first time, he is asked if there is somewhere they can buy a book of his journalism. Now that answer can be given.
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Searchlights: Selected Essays
Thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
A collection of insights, humorous and revealing, gained from being pinned beneath a Massy Ferguson tractor.
Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.
John S. Haller presents a series of essays on key figures in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries connected by their fascination with the philosopher, scientist, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
... Emmylou Harris , James Taylor , The Supremes , Paul Simon , Talking Heads , Eric Carmen , Madonna , Buddy Holly ... Linda Ronstadt , Lucinda Williams , Meat Loaf , Blondie , Etta James , Marvin Gaye , Otis Redding , Tracy Chapman ...
They came to Dmitri's on Sunday night — their faces maps , their warts gleaming like jewels — because Kojak had been moved to Tuesdays . About Evita , Dmitri's friends were heavily ironic for the halfhour they bothered to tolerate it .
Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables Nancy Hardesty David Scofield Wilson, Angus K. Gillespie ... of the women in trying to press it as a moral principle , and the hope of the men , who intended to carry it as a political measure .
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