If this isn't nice, what is? : the graduation speeches and other words to live by /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Seven Stories Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | (Much) expanded second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Baccalaureate
- How to make money and find love!
- Advice to graduating women (that all men should know!)
- How to have something most billionaires don't
- How music cures our ills (and there are lots of them)
- What the "ghost dance" of the Native Americans and the French painters who led the Cubist movement have in common
- How I learned from a teacher what artists do
- Don't forget where you come from
- Why social justice does more than art to nourish the American dream
- How to be a wise guy or a wise girl
- Why you can't stop me from speaking ill of Thomas Jefferson
- Don't despair if you never went to college!
- How I got my first job as a reporter and learned to write in a simple, direct way, while not getting a degree in anthropology
- Somebody whould have told me not to join a fraternity
- The most censored writer of his time defends the First Amendment
- My dog likes everybody, but that was not inspired by ancient Greece and Rome or the Renaissance
- Unstuck in time : quotes to ponder.