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The Accidental Zionist: What a Priest, a Pornographer and a Wrestler named Chainsaw taught me about being Jewish, Saving the World and Why Israel Matters to Both
Has Judaism failed? Well, kind of. To be sure, Judaism has enriched the lives of billions of people over the millennia, Jew and non-Jew alike, providing profound wisdom, ethical guidance and comfort & community in every generation. However, fundamental to Judaism s core mission is the fulfillment of a messianic vision that entails the perfecting of the world. Evil is to be destroyed; pain and suffering are to be eliminated; peace and prosperity are to reign supreme. The lion is to lie down with the lamb. And that, unfortunately, has not happened or as Woody Allen once put it, The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won t get much sleep. Judaism, therefore, despite its many impressive accomplisments, has yet to succeed in the one thing it has deemed most important. Why? The Accidental Zionist suggests that the answer is to be found by exploring an essential and often overlooked aspect of the reborn State of Israel. By relying on traditional Jewish texts as well as a piercing analysis of modern political philosophy, international relations and major trends in statecraft not to mention an ample supply of hilarious stories and fascinating encounters with a motley crew of interesting characters this exploration (and the Israel it hopes to engender) might just offer the means to rectify this historic failure ... and lay the groundwork for the fulfillment of Judaism s most lofty goal. This is a book for anyone who ever wondered why Israel matters whether to him or herself as an individual, to the Jewish people as a whole, or to the world in general..
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The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer: An Amusement (New Directions Classics, 879)
Can you imagine why a pornographer would be shy? Are you satisfied with the state of (a) World Society (b) your soul (c) American writing? Are you in the habit of reading books that could have been written by anybody? Do you really want the truth? Do you know how angels learn to fly? What would you feed a green deer? Do you think a profound social message can be conveyed by a book that is comic in character? When Kenneth Patchen's comic masterpiece, The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer first appeared in 1945, these questions were asked on the dust jacket. They have never seemed more relevant. The hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey-a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer, written with what Diane DiPrima called Patchen's "tender silliness," should inspire a new generation of readers.
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How to Be an Internet Pornographer
So how do you go about becoming a Successful Independent Internet Pornographer? Well, You DON'T need to spend thousands of dollars in Equipment, Lights, Studios, or even Models or Talent! All you REALLY need is a camera, a computer, this book, and a desire to shoot what YOU want to shoot. Meet Lady Sharlot, who started shooting content exclusively for the web, and who grew to be the leading provider in her niche, and one of the experts in her field! Inside this book, she'll tell you all that you will need to start and succeed in the Internet Porn Biz! Learn:* How to get Started with Little-to-No Money
* How to Find and Interview Models that will get Naked
* How even YOU can be the model if you wish
* Finding Cheap (or Free) Places to Shoot
* Directing a Photo Shoot
* Equipment Basics
* Working Your Porn into a Marketable Product
* Selling your Pictures
* Networking via the World Wide Web
* And Much, Much More!
Fun, Informative, and Right on the money. This book is a must-read for those interested in, or just beginning their journey into the adult world of content production.
It's simply a Must-Have for anyone who's ever dreamt of photographing naked models!
I LOVE it! It's earthy, it's fresh, it's honest, it's funny, it's personal, it's warm ...it's almost like having an expert in your living room telling you "Do as I say, not as I did. I went there, and it didn't work." --Kathee Brewer, Technical Editor, AVN Online.
Price: $24.95
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The Pornographer
Reissued to tie in with the publication of John McGahern’s new memoir, All Will Be Well One of the preeminent writers of our time, John McGahern has captivated readers with such poignant and heart-wrenching novels as Amongst Women and The Dark. In The Pornographer, Michael creates an ideal world of sex as a writer of pornographic fiction, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love is in direct contrast to the tenderness with which he attempts to make his aunt’s slow death in a hospital tolerable. Everywhere in this rich novel is the drama of opposites, but above all, sex and death are never far from each other..
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The Pornographer of Vienna
"Underage whores, opium pipes and absinthe chasers. . . . Thoroughly researched, and well described The author is bewitched by his subject's decadence and by the period's historical detail."-Financial Times "[Lewis] Crofts's debut doesn't shrink from depicting the squalor of Schiele's existence and powerfully evokes his uncompromising talent."-Guardian "Utterly engrossing. I was drawn into Schiele's reeling world with its reek of wet paint and sex."-Jon McGregor, author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things "Lewis Crofts' poignant debut captures the turbulence, the vividness and the tragedy of Egon Schiele's life with rare skill and empathy."-Liz Jensen, author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax A Vogue magazine recommended summer read. A Metro newspaper fiction title of the week. The Pornographer of Vienna is an acclaimed fictionalized life of Egon Schiele, the great Austrian artist and protg of Gustav Klimt. Publicly shunned by the very same establishment figures that secretly clamor to buy his erotic, explicit work, Schiele lives a short, intense life against the richly evoked backdrop of the absinthe-soaked, decaying last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In a first novel of rare descriptive power and empathy, fuelled by a blend of research and literary imagination, Lewis Crofts succeeds in evoking the man as well as the artist. The result is a masterful, at times heart-breaking, portrayal of Austria's most decadent and most misunderstood painter, and of the city that both inspired and destroyed him. Thirty-year-old debut novelist Lewis Crofts lives in Belgium. .
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The Pornographer's Poem: A Novel
The Pornographer's Poem is an edgy, important novel that tests the lines between pornography and art, exploitation and exploration Introduced at the age of 16 to adult cinema by an eccentric teacher, the unnamed narrator of this controversial novel secretly shoots a short film of his neighbors having a very unconventional kind of sex. Helped by his doomed poet friend Nettie, who thinks such work can be liberating, he uses what are essentially porn loops to try to make sense of the world, to right its wrongs, in the process becoming a cause célèbre in the underground. But seen first through the eyes of a child and later an alienated adult of indeterminate age, this world is a brutal one populated by disposable people. In his highly acclaimed third novel, Michael Turner deftly blends time shifts, tableaux of radical sexuality and degradation, and an unexpected coming-of-age theme, bringing comparisons to Salinger and other chroniclers of growing up absurd. .
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The Pornographer's Grief: And Other Tales of Human Sexuality
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