基本信息出版社：Simon & Schuster
页码：256 页
出版日期：2002年03月
ISBN：0743210921
International Standard Book Number：0743210921
条形码：9780743210928
EAN：9780743210928
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

内容简介

Take Their Advice:

Camille Paglia • Wayne Koestenbaum • Jonathan Ames • Jennifer Belle • Howard Zinn • Joe Dallesandro • Bruce LaBruce • Dr. Laura Schlessinger • Tom Robbins • Judith Butler • Martha Nussbaum Horst • William S. Burroughs • Larry Niven • Veruschka • Lydia Lunch • Spalding Gray • Eileen Myles • Roger Scruton • Ken Kesey Mary Gaitskill • Richard Powers • Mark Dery • Florence King • Mark Simpson • Bob Shacochis • Joanna Scott • Quentin Crisp • Carolyn Chute • Michael Thomas Ford • Alexander Theroux • George Saunders • Charles Baxter • Ian Shoales • Fay Weldon • Bruce Benderson • Scott Russell Sanders • John Shirley • Dr. John Money • Cindy Sherman • Richard Meltzer • Gene Wolfe • Abbie Hoffman • Diane Wakowski • Richard Taylor • Bette Davis • Arthur Nersesian • Jim Harrison • Martha Gellhorn • Lucius Shepard • Dan Jenkins • Steve Stern • Murray Bookchin • John Zerzan • Maurice Vellekoop • Joel-Peter Witkin • Stewart Home • Maxx Ardman • Katharine Hepburn • Bret Lott • Lynda Barry • Alain de Botton • Mary McCarthy • Hakim Bey • Anita O'Day • Chris Kraus • R. U. Sirius • C. D. Payne W. V. Quine • Rita Dove • Robert Creeley • Valerie Martin • Paul Krassner • Alphonso Lingis • Mark Helprin • John Rechy • Ram Dass • William T. Vollmann • and Bettie Page
作者简介 James L. Harmon is a descendant of the outlaw Cole Younger (Mom's side) and the renegade Comanche chief Quanah Parker (Dad's side). He rarely takes advice. A writer and artist, he lives in Portland, Oregon.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

In the spirit of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Harmon's tongue-in-cheek collection of words to live by should become a new classic. Over the past 10 years, he queried hundreds of social thinkers, academics, poets, artists and more--and received some fantastic responses. As Harmon says, "I would be a complete ingrate not to share those thoughts." And so, Mary McCarthy advises, "Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards." Anita O'Day suggests, "Just get up there and let it rip!" Dr. Laura Schlessinger counsels, "Never sell your soul." And Katharine Hepburn recommends, "Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit."
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From Booklist

Determined not to make a "warm, gooey book with the shelf lifeof a banana," artist and writer Harmon asked a wide range of authors,activists, artists, radicals, journalists, and academics to offertheir advice to a new generation just reaching adulthood. Theresulting "letters" range from shocking to straightforward, intenselypersonal to generic, and the views are slanted far to the artisticleft. There's sound advice: "Look for independent sources ofinformation." And less sound advice: on the necessity of travel, onecontributor scolds, "Don't say you can't afford it. In a pinch you canalways smuggle something." And there's the completely outrageous:"Beware of whores who say they don't want money. The hell theydon't." The best selections are wise, realistic, and not coddling,and they offer fine, provocative browsing to world-wearytwentysomethings with artistic aspirations. Gillian Engberg
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