Honored Guest

Honored Guest
Author: Joy Williams
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307763838

Among the "best American short stories of the past two decades" (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of our most acclaimed writers. In short stories "so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race" (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways—comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss, offering a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.

After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests

After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests
Author: Ted Rall
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1429955589

An unflinching account—in words and pictures—of America's longest war by our most outspoken graphic journalist Ted Rall traveled deep into Afghanistan—without embedding himself with U.S. soldiers, without insulating himself with flak jackets and armored SUVs—where no one else would go (except, of course, Afghans). He made two long trips: the first in the wake of 9/11, and the next ten years later to see what a decade of U.S. occupation had wrought. On the first trip, he shouted his dispatches into a satellite phone provided by a Los Angeles radio station, attempting to explain that the booming in the background—and sometimes the foreground—were the sounds of an all-out war that no one at home would entirely own up to. Ten years later, the alternative newspapers and radio station that had financed his first trip could no longer afford to send him into harm's way, so he turned to Kickstarter to fund a groundbreaking effort to publish online a real-time blog of graphic journalism (essentially, a nonfiction comic) documenting what was really happening on the ground, filed daily by satellite. The result of this intrepid reporting is After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests—a singular account of one determined journalist's effort to bring the realities of life in twenty-first-century Afghanistan to the world in the best way he knows how: a mix of travelogue, photography, and award-winning comics.

Honored Guest

Honored Guest
Author: Joy Williams
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Guest of Honor

Guest of Honor
Author: Deborah Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439169810

Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.

A Guest of Honour

A Guest of Honour
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2002-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0747559880

Brilliant and shocking novel set in South Africa by the Nobel Prize-winner

Honor's Reward

Honor's Reward
Author: John Bevere
Publisher: FaithWords
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2008-11-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0446549312

In HONOR'S REWARD, bestselling author John Bevere unveils the power and truth of an often-overlooked principle-the spiritual law of honor. Bevere explains that understanding the vital role of this virtue will enable readers to attract blessing both now and for eternity.

Ill Nature

Ill Nature
Author: Joy Williams
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-10-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1493023713

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects. Razor-sharp, controversial, scathingly opinionated, and refreshingly unafraid of conflict, Williams refuses to compromise as she lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something...now.