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Conjunctions 71: A Cabinet of Curiosity by Bradford Morrow; Norman Manea; Peter Straub; Martine Bellen; Rick Moody; Mei-mei Berssenbrugge; Mary Caponegro; Brian Evenson; Peter Gizzi; Robert Kelly; Ann Lauterbach; Howard Norman; Karen Russell; Joanna Scott; David Shields; John Edgar Wideman; Diane Ackerman; Dinaw Mengestu is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Diane Ackerman, and more explore the double-edged sword of curiosity . . . Curiosity is as central to life as breathing. And like breath itself, when it ceases, the vibrancy of life fades and disappears. Curiosity leads to discoveries both beneficent and, at times, destructive. It often occasions wonderment, but also terror. It prompts the precise scientist, but also the nosy gadfly. A double-edged sword, curiosity has forever held a crucial role in myth, literature, science, philosophy, history--nearly every field of human endeavor. While most of us know the old saying about curiosity killing the cat, we must also remember that "satisfaction brought it back." Curiosity incites and compels, taketh away and giveth. In this issue, curiosity impels a personal assistant to learn hidden truths about her deceased employer--a famed playwright--and his relationship with the woman who directs an Italian arts foundation to which he donated his priceless library of first editions. A novelist, inspired by a different kind of curiosity, studies the traditional teachings of his Cherokee forebears after reading the notebook his beloved grandfather possessed when he
- Author
- Bradford Morrow; Norman Manea; Peter Straub; Martine Bellen; Rick Moody; Mei-mei Berssenbrugge; Mary Caponegro; Brian Evenson; Peter Gizzi; Robert Kelly; Ann Lauterbach; Howard Norman; Karen Russell; Joanna Scott; David Shields; John Edgar Wideman; Diane Ackerman; Dinaw Mengestu
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. : Conjunctions
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781504057752
Other editions & translations
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