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Confessions of a child of the century
Nine minutes before Brenton Tarrant killed fifty-one people in two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand, a seventy-four-page document titled \"The Great Replacement\" was sent to New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and to seventy or so other addresses. In just a few hours, \"The Great Replacement\" was quoted and commented on, online and in print, as well as on TV, in every part of the world. Even Anders Breivik, Tarrant's supreme model, had conceived his attack as a \"publication launch.\" He, too, had written a book and wanted it to be read - he wanted to force the world to read it. He had chosen the format of the roman-fleuve, while Tarrant had opted for the pamphlet. But the impulse was the same: to be read. And the best form of publicity to this end is just one: to kill.
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The art of the publisher
\"An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this fascinating memoir, the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. Recalling the beginnings of Adelphi in the 1960s, he touches on the Italian house's defining qualities, including the considerations involved in designing the successful Biblioteca series and the strategy for publishing a wide range of authors of high literary quality, as well as the historic critical edition of the works of Nietzsche. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets, and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization. And he outlines what he describes as the \"most hazardous and ambitious\" profile of what a publishing house can be: a book comprising many books, a form in which \"all the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain\"--a conception akin to that of other twentieth-century publishers, from Giulio Einaudi to Roger Straus, of whom the book offers brief portraits. An essential book for writers, readers, and editors, The Art of the Publisher is a tribute to the elusive yet profoundly relevant art of making books\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Ruin of Kasch
\"A sprawling mediation on violence and revolution that incorporates mythology, literature, art and science\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The unnamable present
\"The strikingly original ninth book in Roberto Calasso's monumental exploration of civilization\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ardor
\"A meditation on the ancient wisdom of the Vedas, in which Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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