Alec Wilkinson has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980 and is the author of ten books, two of which are part of Godine’s Nonpareil series: Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police and Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor. The recipient of a Lyndhurst Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship, Mr. Wilkinson lives in New York City.
8 Ebooks par Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson: Ice Balloon
The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration.In August 1930 a Norwegian sloop sailing in the Arctic Ocean moored at a remote isl …
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Alec Wilkinson: Happiest Man in the World
Poppa Neutrino is a philosopher of movement, a vernacular Buddhist, a San Francisco bohemian, a polymath, a pauper, a football strategist for the Red Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation, and a mariner …
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Alec Wilkinson: Midnights
“ Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line….A reminder that those ass …
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William Maxwell: The Writer as Illusionist
“Illuminating . . . Handling strong emotions—shame, love, grief—without fuss, Maxwell gives the bald facts of life a poignant shimmer.”—Wall Street Journal As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from …
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Malcolm Gladwell & Alec Wilkinson: Os piores crimes da revista New Yorker
Oito grandes reportagens sobre crimes da melhor revista jornalística do mundo Fundada pelos jornalistas Harold Ross e Jane Grant em 1925, a New Yorker é uma instituição norte-americana. Desde a sua f …
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Alec Wilkinson: Moonshine
A vivid portrait of legendary liquor agent Garland Bunting, an American original who patrolled rural North Carolina when moonshiners worked their stills in the backcountry. For thirty-five years, Gar …
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