Geek Sublime
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Geek Sublime
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Author : Vikram Chandra
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Geek Sublime written by Vikram Chandra and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding? Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connection between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? And is it a coincidence that Chandra is drawn to two seemingly opposing ways of thinking? Exploring these questions, Chandra creates an idiosyncratic history of coding - exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an 'Indian Mafia' in Silicon Valley, and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th - 11th century Kashmiri thinker. Part technology story and part memoir, Geek Sublime is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly original work.
Sacred Games
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Author : Vikram Chandra
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-05-14
Sacred Games written by Vikram Chandra and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-14 with categories.
WINNER OF THE HUTCH CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD 2006 FOR BEST WORK IN ENGLISH FICTION Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh, and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. This is a sprawling, magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's years of first-hand research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
Geek Love
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Author : Katherine Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-05-25
Geek Love written by Katherine Dunn and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-25 with Fiction categories.
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Popular Postcolonialisms
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Author : Nadia Atia
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-07-04
Popular Postcolonialisms written by Nadia Atia and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and whether they can be employed by those advocating for change. It considers a range of fiction, film, and non-hegemonic cultural forms, engaging with topics such as environmental change, language activism, and cultural imperialism alongside analysis of figures like Tarzan and Frankenstein. Building on the work of cultural theorists, it asks whether the popular is actually where elite conceptions of the world may best be challenged. It also addresses middlebrow cultural production, which has tended to be seen as antithetical to radical traditions, asking whether this might, in fact, form an unlikely realm from which to question, critique, or challenge colonial tropes. Examining the ways in which the imprint of colonial history is in evidence (interrogated, mythologized or sublimated) within popular cultural production, this book raises a series of speculative questions exploring the interrelation of the popular and the postcolonial.
Red Earth And Pouring Rain
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Author : Vikram Chandra
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 1997
Red Earth And Pouring Rain written by Vikram Chandra and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with East Indian students categories.
In Vikram Chandra'S Astonishing First Novel, The Gods Hanuman, Ganesha And Yama Descend On A House In An Indian City To Vie For The Soul Of A Wounded Monkey. A Bargain Is Struck: The Monkey Must Tell A Story, And If He Can Keep His Audience Entertained, He Shall Live. The Result Is Red Earth And Pouring Rain, A Tale Of Nineteenth Century India: Of Sanjay, A Poet, And Sikander, A Warrior; Of Hoofbeats Thundering Through The Streets Of Calcutta And The Birth Of A Luminous Child; Of Great Wars And Love Affairs And A City Gone 'Mad With Poetry'. And Woven Into This Tapestry Of Stories Is A Second, Totally Modern Narrative, The Adventures Of A Young Indian Criss-Crossing America In A Car With His Friends And His Eventual Return To His Homeland.
Mirrored Mind
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Author : Vikram Chandra
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Mirrored Mind written by Vikram Chandra and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Literary Collections categories.
Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary book he returns to his early days as a writer, when he was beginning Red Earth and Pouring Rain, and looks at the connections between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style just as writers are but do the words mean the same thing to both? And is it a coincidence that Chandra is drawn to two seemingly opposing ways of thinking? To answer his questions, Chandra delves into the writings of Abhinavagupta, the tenth- and eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker, and creates an idiosyncratic history of coding. Part literary theory, part tech story and part memoir, Mirrored Mind is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly original work.
Mistletoe
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Author : Alison Littlewood
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Mistletoe written by Alison Littlewood and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with Fiction categories.
'Alison Littlewood has a real talent for building atmosphere, loaded with the promise of things to come -hints of dread with the possibility of hope' Guardian Leah thought Maitland Farm could give her a new life - but now old ghosts are dragging her into the past. Following the tragic deaths of her husband and son, Leah is looking for a new life. Determined to bury her grief in hard work and desperate to escape Christmas and the reminders of what she has lost, she rushes through the purchase of a run-down Yorkshire farmhouse, arriving just as the snow shrouds her new home. It might look like the loveliest Christmas card, but it's soon clear it's not just the house that needs renovation: the land is in bad heart, too. As Leah sets to work, she begins to see visions of the farm's former occupants - and of the dark secrets that lie at the heart of Maitland Farm. If Leah is to have a future, she must find a way to lay both her own past and theirs to rest - but the visions are becoming disturbingly real . . . 'Alison Littlewood is one of the brightest stars in the horror genre' This is Horror
Art Max
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Author : David Wiesner
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2010-10-04
Art Max written by David Wiesner and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Max and Arthur are friends who share an interest in painting. Arthur is an accomplished painter; Max is a beginner. Max’s first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various artistic media, which turn out to have unexpected pitfalls. Although Max is inexperienced, he’s courageous—and a quick learner. His energy and enthusiasm bring the adventure to its triumphant conclusion. Beginners everywhere will take heart.
Careless People
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Author : Sarah Churchwell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Careless People written by Sarah Churchwell and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with True Crime categories.
Kirkus (STARRED review) "Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.” The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age. A spokesman for America’s carefree younger generation, Fitzgerald found a home in the glamorous and reckless streets of New York. Here, in the final incredible months of 1922, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald drank and quarreled and partied amid financial scandals, literary milestones, car crashes, and celebrity disgraces. Yet the Fitzgeralds’ triumphant return to New York coincided with another event: the discovery of a brutal double murder in nearby New Jersey, a crime made all the more horrible by the farce of a police investigation—which failed to accomplish anything beyond generating enormous publicity for the newfound celebrity participants. Proclaimed the “crime of the decade” even as its proceedings dragged on for years, the Mills-Hall murder has been wholly forgotten today. But the enormous impact of this bizarre crime can still be felt in The Great Gatsby, a novel Fitzgerald began planning that autumn of 1922 and whose plot he ultimately set within that fateful year. Careless People is a unique literary investigation: a gripping double narrative that combines a forensic search for clues to an unsolved crime and a quest for the roots of America’s best loved novel. Overturning much of the received wisdom of the period, Careless People blends biography and history with lost newspaper accounts, letters, and newly discovered archival materials. With great wit and insight, acclaimed scholar of American literature Sarah Churchwell reconstructs the events of that pivotal autumn, revealing in the process new ways of thinking about Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Interweaving the biographical story of the Fitzgeralds with the unfolding investigation into the murder of Hall and Mills, Careless People is a thrilling combination of literary history and murder mystery, a mesmerizing journey into the dark heart of Jazz Age America.
A Letter To My Mom
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Author : Lisa Erspamer
language : en
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Release Date : 2015-04-07
A Letter To My Mom written by Lisa Erspamer and has been published by Crown/Archetype this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Photography categories.
Including letters from Melissa Rivers, Shania Twain, will.i.am, Christy Turlington, and Kristin Chenoweth Just in time for Mother's Day, the next book in the A Letter to My series (after A Letter to My Dog and A Letter to My Cat) takes on mothers, with celebrities and civilians writing letters of gratitude and admiration to the women who raised them, alongside gorgeous, intimate photos.