Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness." —George Saunders "Levin's brains may have earned him a cult...but here he swells to a democratic reach. Give him a try sometime. His gate’s wide open.” —Garth Risk Hallberg, The New York Times Book Review The astonishing new novel by the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award-winning author of The Instructions. Bubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a "flesh-and-bone robot" called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to, but must find a way to live in. At age thirty-eight, still living at home with his widowed father, Belt insulates himself from the awful and terrifying world outside by spending most of his time with books, his beloved Curio, and the voices in his head, which he isn't entirely sure are in his head. After Belt's father goes on a fishing excursion, a simple trip to the bank escalates into an epic saga that eventually forces Belt to confront the world he fears, as well as his estranged childhood friend Jonboat, the celebrity astronaut and billionaire. In Bubblegum, Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious, resonant, and monumental narrative about heartbreak, longing, art, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. Bubblegum is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.
Adam Levin’s debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of “death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth” (Rolling Stone). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds, shaken snow-globes of overweight romantics, legless prodigies, quixotic dollmakers, Chicagoland thugs, dirty old men, protective fathers, balloon-laden dumptrucks, and walls that ooze gels. Told with lust and affection, karate and tenderness, slapstickery, ferocity, and heart, Hot Pink is the work of a major talent in his sharpest form.
From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest." –George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city’s mayor must struggle to move forward while the world—quite literally—caves beneath their feet. With this polyphonic tale of Chicago-style politics and political correctness, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity, celebrity, drugs, and animal psychology, Levin has constructed a monument to laughter, love, art, and resilience in an age of spectacular loss.
Identity fraud happens to everyone. So what do you do when it's your turn? Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam filters, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But with the breaches of huge organizations like Target, AshleyMadison.com, JPMorgan Chase, Sony, Anthem, and even the US Office of Personnel Management, more than a billion personal records have already been stolen, and chances are good that you're already in harm's way. This doesn't mean there's no hope. Your identity may get stolen, but it doesn't have to be a life-changing event. Adam Levin, a longtime consumer advocate and identity fraud expert, provides a method to help you keep hackers, phishers, and spammers from becoming your problem. Levin has seen every scam under the sun: fake companies selling "credit card insurance"; criminal, medical, and child identity theft; emails that promise untold riches for some personal information; catphishers, tax fraud, fake debt collectors who threaten you with legal action to confirm your account numbers; and much more. As Levin shows, these folks get a lot less scary if you see them coming. With a clearheaded, practical approach, Swiped is your guide to surviving the identity theft epidemic. Even if you've already become a victim, this strategic book will help you protect yourself, your identity, and your sanity.
Across the city, fading advertisements and ghost signs tell the story of Milwaukee as it was in years gone by ... Join Milwaukee native and ghost sign hunter Adam Levin as he explores the national brands and local shops of the Cream City's past"--Back cover.
With searing honesty, tender prose and outrageous humour, Adam Levin takes us through the daily trials of living with Aids, travelling from promiscuity and dangerous denial, through the terrors of imminent mortality, to face the realities of his disease. But this book’s power lies not only in its value as a guide for coping with life-threatening illnesses, but in the rich quality of the narrative. Levin journeyed to remote, unimagined places to write The Wonder Safaris, but it is his Aidsafari – the frightening, internal journey that kept him on his sickbed for two years – that ultimately reveals his raw honesty, indomitable passion and remarkable insights about love, lostness and life, and how rarely it fails to surprise us.
Explore long-lost and never-before-seen images of downtown, Mayfair Mall's Ice Chalet, Brady Street, the Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee County Stadium, and much, much more. Introduced by Kodak in 1935, Kodachrome quickly became popular with professional and amateur photographers in the years after World War II. Countless Kodachrome slides now lie neglected and discarded in attics and basements like tiny time capsules just waiting to be rediscovered. Sharing more than 140 full-color photos from his own collection, Adam Levin, curator of the popular Old Milwaukee Facebook group, leads a stroll down memory lane into the Milwaukee of yesteryear.
Au cours de l’année 2015, Belt Magnet, 38 ans, entreprend d’écrire ses mémoires. Auteur d’un seul roman, il vit chez son père d’une pension d’invalidité accordée après qu’un curieux trouble mental lui a été diagnostiqué. Belt est convaincu, depuis l’âge de 12 ans, qu’il peut communiquer avec les objets, les inans comme il les appelle. En guise de thérapie, Belt s’est vu octroyer une innovation technologique : un des premiers Curio, un robot animal de chair et d’os capable d’empathie, de mimétisme, d’interaction avec l’humain. Ces petits animaux manufacturés sont si mignons qu’ils provoquent parfois la pulsion de les dévorer. Quelques années plus tard, les Curio se sont généralisés et focalisent toute l’attention. C’est dans cet environnement de légère uchronie que Bubblegum va suivre la vie de Belt Magnet, la mort prématurée de sa mère, ses amitiés adolescentes, ses questions permanentes sur le sens de la vie, le monde ou la société. Avec un humour féroce, Bubblegum nous parle d’une Amérique étrange, d’un jeune homme tout à fait aussi bizarre qu’attachant, d’un monde qui est le nôtre sans l’être tout à fait. Il y a du Salinger et du Philip Roth dans ce livre, mais il y a surtout du Adam Levin, écrivain à l’imagination débridée, au style virevoltant, à la verve irrésistible.
Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades_as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of modern science, Kass has offered wisdom, guidance, and instruction. In this volume, fifteen of Kass's admirers, including students, colleagues, and friends, honor his work by reflecting on the broad range of subjects to which he has devoted his life's work. Some of the essays offer interpretations of great works of literature and philosophy from Homer, Sophocles, and Plato to Rousseau, Franklin, Jane Austen, Hawthorne, and Henry James. Others examine the significance of Leon Kass's work as a bioethicist and Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics and as an interpreter of the Book of Genesis. The essays collected in Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver offer a sense of the breadth of Kass's interests and insights and of the influence he has had on generations of scholars. The reader is further acquainted with the career of Leon R. Kass by a biographical introduction and a comprehensive listing of his published writings and the courses he has taught.
InvalidTag charset="utf-8" ALL OF GOD'S PROMISES ARE FOR YOU! START LAYING HOLD OF THEM TODAY! Are you struggling with feeling afraid? God has promised peace to His children. Doubt? He promises His faithfulness. Depression? He offers hope. Discover God’s powerful promises to you in every situation of life, whether beautiful and exciting or painful and challenging. Billie Kaye Tsika has learned firsthand to stand on the promises of God. In Apples of Gold, she shares the Lord’s "love letters" that have carried her through every season of her life. She includes topics such as family relationships, the words we speak, the peace of God, and more. Receive her encouragement as a mother in the faith and see God’s promises in action through: His powerful interactions with His children throughout Scripture. The historical accounts of renowned heroes such as C.S. Lewis, A.W. Tozer, Corrie ten Boom, and others. Testimonies from Billie Kaye’s family and friends of how God’s promises have miraculously sustained them. Each chapter includes crafted prayers for you to pray as well as promises for your meditation time. The end of the book includes a priceless alphabetical treasury of God’s promises so you can easily access His truth on the topic you need! Receive your personal “love letter” from God today. Allow your heart to be strengthened through these powerful, life-giving testimonies, knowing that this same God who’s been faithful through the ages is faithful to you!
Explore selections from best-selling author Adam Hamilton’s insightful writing on the topics that shape and challenge our faith. With excerpts from Why? Making Sense of God’s Will, Enough: Discovering Joy through Simplicity and Generosity, and Forgiveness: Finding Peace Through Letting Go, these short excerpts will bring hope and inspiration.
Here I’m Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I’m Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.
Adam speaks The story of Adam and Eve is known throughout the world. It is a tale passed down through the beginning of humanity that is believed by Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. There isn't much to it other than the creation of man and woman and the loss of paradise attributed to their disobedience in biting an apple from a forbidden tree. This book gives a detailed portrayal of the familiar story from the perspective of Adam. It tells of the relationship Adam had with God before and after Eve was created and before and after the fall as well. As a consequence to Adam's sin he is doomed to live many lives to witness the effect it has on mankind throughout history to the present day. Adam narrates significant events of history such as the fall of Satan, the first murder, the great flood and the origins of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim nations. Along the way he explains mysteries like creation, evolution, giants, dinosaurs, reincarnation and the spiritual laws that control the universe. As Adam tells his story he produces a scathing diatribe directed at organized religion with the passion only the one and only original man can muster. This story is thought provoking and entertaining and should appeal to fans of fiction and non fiction, believers, non believers and lovers of philosophy.
The 2014 Handbook for Preparing SEC Annual Reports and Proxy Statements provides a comprehensive analysis of the various rules and forms that apply to the preparation of the annual report on Form 10-K, the annual meeting proxy statement and the annual report to shareholders. Authors Lawrence D. Levin and Adam R. Klein share practical guidance based on their extensive experiences in representing public companies over the years.The 2014 Edition covers relevant rules, proposals and amendments and recent developments, including those under the Dodd-Frank Act and the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), such as: The SEC's proposed rules relating to pay ratio disclosure, incentive-based compensation arrangements at covered financial institutions and short-term borrowings disclosure. The current status of Dodd-Frank Act corporate governance and executive compensation provisions. Scaled disclosure requirements for different-sized registrants such as "smaller reporting companies" and "emerging growth companies" Electronic filing under EDGAR Using the Safe Harbor for forward-looking statements Recently adopted rules regarding conflict minerals, disclosures of payments by resource extraction issuers, and newly-effective listing standards for compensation committees. A new subsection addressing disclosure requirements pursuant to the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012.Be prepared with the latest regulatory information and practical guidance--all at your fingertips in convenient handbook size--as you craft these very important public company materials.
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