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"This illustrated guidebook takes you on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood odyssey through New York, visiting iconic bookstores, hidden literary landmarks, and fabled writer's haunts, and features candid interviews with local literary figures and bibliophiles -- including Hamish Bowles, Tina Brown and Harold Evans, Graydon Carter, Tavi Gevinson, Eddie Huang, Marc Jacobs, Gay and Nan Talese, Sigrid Nunez, and Richard Price, among many others." --
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With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the country’s literary masters. With her,...
69) Domy pisarzy
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Wyrusz w fascynującą wyprawę tropem wielkich pisarzy. Dowiedz się, jak wyglądały ich domy, przy jakich biurkach i w jakich warunkach tworzyli swoje dzieła. "Domy pisarzy" to piękna podróż, która pomaga odnaleźć inspirację i przybliża sylwetki znanych artystów. Marzena Mróz-Bajon zjeździła cały świat, aby doświadczyć wspaniałych emocji związanych z bliskością wielkich pisarzy. Wybrała się do Anchiano we Włoszech, gdzie...
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"The Beat Generation may be one of the great homegrown countercultures of the United States, but in fact its writers traveled widely and lived abroad for periods of time. Their travels were a vital source of inspiration, and in turn they inspired literary scenes and kindred spirits around the globe.The writers we think of as "beat" first met in New York City in the 1940s and 50s, then joined up with others in San Francisco to form the group that became...
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