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03149aam a2200349 i 4500 001 5E04B9C243AD11EDBF5B08455EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221004012439 008 220709t20222022nyu 000 e eng 010 $a 2022026996 020 $a 125085864X 020 $a 9781250858641 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1289240302 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E169.1 $b .D466 2022 082 00 $a 814/.6 $2 23/eng/20220713 100 1 $a Deresiewicz, William, $d 1964- $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 14 $a The end of solitude : $b selected essays on culture and society / $c William Deresiewicz. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York : $b Henry Holt and Company, $c 2022. 300 $a xiii, 302 pages ; $c 25 cm 505 00 $t Day of atonement. $t Solitude and leadership -- $t Faux friendship -- $t Culture against culture -- $t The girl with the high-speed connection -- $t The ghost in the machine -- $t All in a dream -- $t The disadvantages of an elite education -- $t The neoliberal arts -- $t The defunding of the American mind -- $t On political correctness -- $t Change your mind first : college and the urge to save the world -- $t Why I left academia (since you're wondering) -- $t Heal for America -- $t On the beach -- $t In memoriam -- $t Generation sell -- $t Heroes -- $t Just friends -- $t Seeing things -- $t The true church -- $t Arms and the man -- $t Latter-day saint -- $t The maker's hand -- $t Upper middle brow -- $t Food, food culture, culture -- $t The platinum age -- $t Merce Cunningham : celestial mechanics -- $t Mark Morris : home coming -- $t Studies show arts have value -- $t Alfred Kazin : fiery particle of spirit -- $t Harold Rosenberg : the individual nuisance -- $t Harold Bloom : the horror, the horror -- $t Clive James : letter to the twenty-first century -- $t Mark Greif : facing reality -- $t Hunting the whale -- $t How's that again? -- $t Birthrights -- $t A Jew in the Northwest -- $t The limits of limits -- $t Parade's end -- $t Day of atonement. 520 $a "What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four that are published here for the first time. Ranging widely across the culture, they take up subjects as diverse as Mad Men and Harold Bloom, the significance of the hipster, and the purpose of art. Drawing on the past, they ask how we got where we are. Scrutinizing the present, they seek to understand how we can live more mindfully and freely, and they pose two fundamental questions: What does it mean to be an individual, and how can we sustain our individuality in an age of networks and groups?" -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American essays $y 21st century. 651 0 $a United States $x Civilization. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20221004021742.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E04B9C243AD11EDBF5B08455EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search