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Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays
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Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysGeneral Sociology
Publisher Price: $25.00
ISBN13: 9781597146975
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: Aug 5 2025
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Now in paperback: an exhilarating journey through the world of books, ideas, and activism; a finalist for the Foreword Reviews INDIES Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction.
Steve Wasserman is a treasure of American letters and his book is a testament, above all, to a literary life lived to the fullest. --Héctor Tobar
Born on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perhaps less well known as a cultural essayist and social critic of the first rank. In thirty splendid essays, originally published in such diverse publications as the New Republic and The Nation, The American Conservative and The Progressive, The Village Voice and the Los Angeles Times, Wasserman delivers a riveting account of the awakening of an empathetic sensibility and a lively mind. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of his enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, and the tumults of a world in upheaval. They include the remarkable tale of a bookstore owner who wouldn't let him buy the books he wanted, to his brave against-the-grain take on the Black Panthers, to his shrewd assessment of the fast-changing world of publishing. Here is, as Joyce Carol Oates notes, arguably the best concise history of Cuba and the legendary Fidel Castro; beautifully composed eulogies for two close friends, Susan Sontag and Christopher Hitchens; sharply perceptive commentary on Daniel Ellsberg; a thrillingly candid interview with W. G. Sebald.
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