Oranges & Peanuts for Sale (New Directions Paperbook)

Oranges & Peanuts for Sale (New Directions Paperbook)

Presented at the PEN World Voices Festival as a â€œpost-nationalâ€ writer, Eliot Weinberger is â€œa sparkling essayistâ€ (Confrontation), and his writings â€œa boundary-crossing, shape-shifting cabinet of curiositiesâ€ (The Bloomsbury Review).

Many of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges & Peanuts for Sale have appeared in translation in seventeen countries; some have never been published in English before. They include introductions for books of avant-garde poets; collaborations with visual artists, and articles for publications such as The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and October.

One section focuses on writers and literary works: strange tales from classical and modern China; the Psalms in translation: a skeptical look at E. B. Whiteâ€™s New York. Another section is a continuation of Weinbergerâ€™s celebrated political articles collected in What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles (a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award), including a sequel to â€œWhat I Heard About Iraq,â€ which the Guardian called the only antiwar â€œclassicâ€ of the Iraq War. A new installment of his magnificent linked â€œserial essay,â€ An Elemental Thing, takes us on a journey down the Yangtze River during the Sung Dynasty.

The reader will also find the unlikely convergences between Samuel Beckett and Octavio Paz, photography and anthropology, and, of course, oranges and peanuts, as well as an encomium for Obama, a manifesto on translation, a brief appearance by Shiva, and reflections on the color blue, death, exoticism, Susan Sontag, and the arts and war.
Country USA
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-06-23
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-06-23
Format	Kindle eBook

Oranges & Peanuts for Sale (New Directions Paperbook)

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