Pablo Isla

This book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed the Sonic Arts Union, a group that turned conceptualism toward electronics. He was also instrumental in the influential ONCE Group, a theatrical ensemble that toured extensively in the 1960s.During his tenure as its director, the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor presented most of the decade's pioneers of the performing arts....

Estos íoficios compartidosî son la literatura y la política. ¿Son en verdad compartibles? Según el autor íhan sido para mí una sola vivencia, consecuencia de una misma sensibilidadî. Así, el joven sobreviviente de la matanza somocista del 23 de julio de 1959 pudo ser por igual uno de los dirigentes de la revolución sandinista y un destacado novelista. En este libro nos lo cuenta uniendo autobiografía e historia política.

En esta aventura que cubre en el tiempo todo un siglo, Amin Maalouf convoca a los muertos y a los vivos, a los fantasmas de sus antepasados y a los familiares que le rodean, para explorar las leyendas que se han alimentado entre los suyos. Revuelve viejos arcones, descubre amarillentas correspondencias, apergaminadas cartas de amor e inquietudes, esperanzas y desazones que le permiten hacer el retrato de toda una época periclitada, con las convulsiones que llevaron al desmoronamiento del Imperio otomano, y forjarse una idea clara de cómo eran, cómo pensaban y lo que llevó a los Maalouf a...

In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control of her life. This life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she first auditioned for her to act. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star and Jennette would have done anything to make her mother happy. So she did what her mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five...