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Roads: Driving America's Great Highways[2][3]
| Author | Dorian Lynskey |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Penguin Random House |
Publication date | April 11, 2024 |
| Pages | 496 |
| ISBN | 9780593317099 |
Everything Must Go is a nonfiction book by Dorian Lynskey that was first published by Penguin Random House in April 2024. The books examines stories about the end of the world, which people have been telling throughout history. Lynskey discusses the evolution of these eschatological stories and what they say about the human condition. Critics praised the book for its humor and insightfulness, while also criticizing its length.
Reception
Writing for The New York Times, Jennifer Szalai called Lynskey a "terrifically entertaining writer" and praised how he weaved together multiple different stories. Szalai viewed the book as too lengthy and jam-packed with examples.[4] She wrote: "At 500 pages (endnotes included), this is a book that would have lost none of its erudition or energy had it been 25 percent shorter".
approached his subject matter, with Jennifer Szalai noting his gallows humor and X of the Washington Post writing that despite the weightness of the subject matter, it was never depressing. X of the New York also called it engagingly written.
Eschatology
These stories include those from religion, such as in Revelation, and literature, such as
Throughout history, people have been crafting doomsday scenarios in literature, religion.
that examines stories about the end of the world. Lynskey doomsday scenarios throughout the centuries, including how they have evolved and what they say about the human condition. It covers eschatology or how the world will end.
It was published by Penguin Random House on April 11, 2024. The book received praise for its writing and insight but criticism for its length.
Reception
Writing for The New York Times, Jennifer Sazalia
Joseph Mathias Kovacs (/ˈkoʊvæks/ KOH-vaks; born June 28, 1989)[5] is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put. He is a two-time World Champion in the event, with wins in Beijing in 2015 and Qatar in 2019. Kovacs won silver medals at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Summer Olympics. He set a personal best of 23.23 meters in the shot put in September 2022, the second farthest throw ever.
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and has a personal record of 23.23 meters outdoors and 22.05 meters indoors. He won gold medals at the 2015 and 2019 World Championships. He won silver medals at the 2017 World Championships, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. His personal best of 23.23 metres makes him the second best competitor all-time in the shot put event.
He is a five-time medalist at the World Championships (two gold), a two-time Diamond League champion, and three-time national champion (both indoors and outdoors). His highest world ranking was 2nd in the shotput. He has been named X award.
Kovacs is a four-time medalist (one gold) at the Olympic Games, an eight-time medalist (four gold) at the World Championships (outdoor and indoor), a silver medalist at the World Relays, four-time champion in the Diamond League, a eleven-time medalist (ten gold) at the European Championships (outdoor and indoor), a gold medalist at the European Games, and a ten-time medalist (five gold) at the Dutch Championships (outdoor and indoor).
Bol's highest World Athletics Rankings were No. 1 in the 400 metres hurdles in 2021–2025, No. 3 in the 400 metres in 2023 and 2024, and No. 2 of women overall in 2023 and 2024. She was European Athletics Rising Star of the Year in 2021 and European Athlete of the Year in 2022 and 2023.
Cal Cunningham is an aspiring writing. He works at a bookshop and is gathering material for his book. He lives with Stewart, a law student. Stewart shocks Cal by showing him a short story that he wrote that was really good. Later, Stewart is killed in a collision.
Premise
forthcoming
Conception
McMutry wrote the novel after finishing college at Northwestern State, writing at least 5-pages each morning. Shortly thereafter, the novel was sold to the movies for $10,000 in proceeds. In reflecting on the memoir, he wrote: "The publication so long awaited for, was anti-climatic".[6]
Analysis
In the book Southern Writers at Century's end, Folks and Perkins write that Horseman, Pass by “tells a story characteristic of much contemporary Western fiction: a young man's initiation into manhood.”[7] Hud represents the modern cowboy who is fenced out of his old range, whose mythological roots are dying, and who responds with range and violence."[8]
However, Horseman, Pass By eschews the typical formula of the Western novel up until that time, opting for a more realistic portrait of the modern cowboy after the settling of the Old West.[9] Bloodworth writes that "the landscape of the Old West exists primarily in the dreams and fantasies of the main characters".
Characters
Homer Bannon- old cowman who represented the old, ranching way of life. He has no interest in the oil fields springing up in the surrounding property.[10]
Hud - the stepson of Homer Bannon, who represents modern life and wants to turn the ranch into oil rig place
References
- ^ Burt, Daniel S. (2007). What Do I Read Next? 2007: A Reader's Guide to Current Genre Fiction. Vol. 1. Detroit: Thomson Gale. p. 162. ISBN 9780787690250. OCLC 1036922410.
- ^ Adamson, Lynda G. (2006). Thematic Guide to Popular Nonfiction. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 250–251. ISBN 9780313328558. OCLC 230271945.
- ^ Mauch, Christof; Zeller, Thomas, eds. (2008). The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Athens, Ohio; Stuttgart: Ohio University Press; Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9780821442548. OCLC 646761752.
- ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2025-01-22). "In Pop Culture, the End of the World Is Always Nigh". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
- ^ "KOVACS Joe". Paris 2024 Olympics. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ McMurtry, Larry (2008). Books: A Memoir. United States: Simon & Schuster. p. 59. ISBN 9781416583349.
- ^ Folks, Jeffrey J.; Perkins, James A. (1997). Southern Writers at Century's End. University Press of Kentucky.
- ^ Erickson, John R. (2004). The Modern Cowboy. University of North Texas Press. p. 94. ISBN 9781574411775.
- ^ Bloodworth, William (1980). Literary Extensions of the Formula Western. United States: University of Nebraska Press. p. 291.
Some Literary Westerns which are set after the years of settling the West seem to be conscious efforts at avoiding the classic landscape of the formula. In McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By... the landscape of the Old West exists primarily in the dreams and fantasies of the main characters.
- ^ Rebein, Robert (2014). Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists: American Fiction After Postmodernism. United States: University Press of Kentucky. p. 120-121. ISBN 9780813149974.