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Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall Street Journal's Middle Column (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743226646)
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xOn any given day, millions of Wall Street Journal readers put aside the serious business and economic news of the day to focus first on the paper's middle column (a.k.a. the A-hed), a virtual sound-bubble for light literary fare -- a short story, a tall tale, an old yarn, a series of vignettes, and other unexpected delights that seem to "float off the page." In this first-ever compendium of middle-column pieces, you'll find an eclectic selection of writings, from the outlandish to the oddly enlightening. Read about:
- one man's attempt to translate the Bible into Klingon
- sheep orthodontics, pet-freezing, and toad-smoking
- being hip in Cairo, modeling at auto shows, piano-throwing
- the fate of mail destined for the World Trade Center after 9/11
- the plight of oiled otters in Prince William Sound ...and much, much more. Edited by 20-year Journal veteran Ken Wells, and with a foreword by Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis, Floating Off the Page is the perfect elixir for fans of innovative prose in all its forms and function.
Author: Ken Wells
ISBN-10: 074322664X
ISBN-13: 9780743226646
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2003
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.52w x 0.74d
- one man's attempt to translate the Bible into Klingon
- sheep orthodontics, pet-freezing, and toad-smoking
- being hip in Cairo, modeling at auto shows, piano-throwing
- the fate of mail destined for the World Trade Center after 9/11
- the plight of oiled otters in Prince William Sound ...and much, much more. Edited by 20-year Journal veteran Ken Wells, and with a foreword by Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis, Floating Off the Page is the perfect elixir for fans of innovative prose in all its forms and function.
Author: Ken Wells
ISBN-10: 074322664X
ISBN-13: 9780743226646
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2003
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.52w x 0.74d
By Ken Wells
xKen Wells is a novelist and journalist from the banks of Bayou Black in South Louisiana's Cajun county. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the editor of two Pulitzer Prize-wining projects, and a former senior editor for Conde Nast Portfolio. He is the author of two nonfiction books. He spends his time in Chicago, with summers in Maine, and is an avid photographer, hiker, and fisherman. Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Undoing Project, Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.
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