Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays by Steve Wasserman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays Author: Steve Wasserman Narrator: Steve Wasserman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens. Born on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perhaps less well known as a cultural essayist and social critic of the first rank. In thirty splendid essays, originally published in such diverse publications as The New Republic and The Nation, The American Conservative and The Progressive, The Village Voice and The Economist, Wasserman delivers a riveting account of the awakening of an empathetic sensibility and a lively mind. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of his enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, and the tumults of a world in upheaval. These essays include the remarkable tale of a bookstore owner who wouldn't let him buy the books he wanted, to his brave against-the-grain take on the Black Panthers, to his shrewd assessment of the fast-changing world of publishing. Here is, as Joyce Carol Oates notes, 'arguably the very best concise history of Cuba and the legendary Fidel Castro; beautifully composed eulogies for two close friends, Susan Sontag and Christopher Hitchens; sharply perceptive commentary on Daniel Ellsberg; a thrillingly candid interview with W. G. Sebald.'