Archive for December 2008
ARTstor Adds New Collections: Georgia O’Keefe and Architecture of Britain
Posted by: asclibrarian on: December 8, 2008
The library database ARTstor has just added two exciting new collections. Now available – Architecture of Britian, images from Brian Davis – offers 1,600 images from the archive of Brian Davis. The ARTstor press release states that “The collection documents architectural and garden sites in Europe, primarily architecture in Britain from the Middle Ages to [...]
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New York Times Book Review
- Raymond Carver’s Life and StoriesCarol Sklenicka’s biography and a long-overdue “Collected Stories” spotlight Carver’s growth as a writer and illuminate his poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.
- Andre Agassi’s Hate of the GameBracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Andre Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.
- My True StoryA history of memoir, from St. Augustine to James Frey.
- Haleh Esfandiari: Prisoner of TehranA love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran.
- Double Agency In this novel, British and American spies clash in the buildup to the Beijing Olympics.
