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Detecting Lies and Deception Using Statement Analysis® WikiDiff | James Ellroy - Identity Theory. Writer James Ellroy, who once announced his ambition "to be known as the greatest crime novelist who has ever lived," was born is Los Angeles in 1948. Ellroy has written Brown's Requiem, Clandestine, Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, and Killer Road.

His LA Quartet novels — The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz — have been best sellers and critically acclaimed. In 1995, he published the first book (which he referred to as a "sewer crawl" through history) in his Underworld USA trilogy, American Tabloid, which takes us up to November 22, 1963. Robert Birnbaum: …six years in the making. James Ellroy: Not quite six years in the making because I wrote My Dark Places and re-investigated my mother's murder in the interim. RB: …and what's Crime Wave? JE: It’s a collection of my GQ pieces. RB: You are still going to do the third book in this trilogy? JE: I'm still going to do the third. RB: Any chance you'll go further? JE: No, no. JE: No. JE: No, no. JE: No. The Millions - Books, Arts, and Culture. Literary Hub: The Best of the Literary Internet.

The Poets. The Poets There are 161 poet companion sites below. The poems analyzed are available in Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford) a Ai Sherman Alexie Angel Island Poetry A. John Ashbery back to top b Jimmy Santiago Baca Amiri Baraka John Beecher Gwendolyn Bennett John Berryman Elizabeth Bishop Paul Blackburn Robert Bly Louise Bogan Arna Bontemps Kay Boyle William Bronk Gwendolyn Brooks Sterling A. C Gladys May Casley-Hayford (Aquah LaLuah) Ana Castillo Marilyn Chin Sandra Cisneros Lucille Clifton Gregory Corso Jayne Cortez Hart Crane Robert Creeley Harry Crosby Countee Cullen E. D Joy Davidman James Dickey Emily Dickinson Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Mark Doty Rita Dove Henry Dumas Paul Laurence Dunbar Alice Dunbar-Nelson Robert Duncan e T.

Anita Endrezze Louise Erdrich Martìn Espada William Everson f Kenneth Fearing Carolyn Forché Sesshu Foster Charles Henri Ford Joseph Freeman Robert Frost Sol Funaroff g Allen Ginsberg Louise Glück Judy Grahn Angelina Weld Grimké h Michael S. Robert Hass Jessica Hagedorn Sadakichi Hartmann Robert Hayden Anthony Hecht i. The Millions. A Way with Words. The rise of the shitgibbon – Strong Language. Pennsylvania state senator Daylin Leach got a lot of attention this week for a colorful expletive hurled at Donald Trump, appearing on Leach’s Facebook and Twitter feeds.

As Leach’s “fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon” line made the rounds on social media, he didn’t back down from the characterization (which was inspired by reports that Trump had threatened to “destroy the career” of a Texas state senator over the civil asset forfeiture issue). His spokesman Steve Hoenstine doubled down. The Philly Voice wondered what a “shit-gibbon” is, exactly.

“A gibbon is a primate most commonly found in parts of Southeast Asia, but “s***-gibbon” looks like it’s a Scottish insult.” Indeed, shitgibbon got attached to Trump when he landed in Scotland after the Brexit vote and tweeted that Scotland “took their country back,” despite the fact that most Scots voted against leaving the EU. But shitgibbon didn’t originate with MetalOllie. So thank you, Mr. That about covers it! Like this: Like Loading... Welcome to Perceval Press. A Way with Words, public radio\'s lively show about words and language and how we use them. Andrew Hamilton, "Hitler's Speeches". Adolf Hitler, Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany, September 14, 1930 2,882 words I read that Hitler delivered about 5,000 major speeches during his lifetime running to many thousands of pages. I am unaware whether a comprehensive listing of his speeches, or any reliable word count, exists.

I suspect they do not. Below I list some major published collections of Hitler’s speeches, both in English and German. Almost all consist of excerpts rather than complete speeches. In compiling the list I was struck again by the paucity of trustworthy scholarship underlying the Himalaya of words academics, journalists, popular writers, filmmakers and broadcasters have heaped up about Hitler and the Third Reich.

Empirical and intellectual shoddiness and ignorance underpin the entire structure. And so it goes in every area. The Nature of Oratory Adolf Hitler was one of history’s great orators. Oratory and public speaking are not the same. Public speaking is, and always has been, far more common than oratory. Note. Katy Waldman. The Audio Book Club Jan. 14 2016 8:07 AMThe Audio Book Club PurifiesSlate critics debate Jonathan Franzen’s sprawling new novel.Meghan O'Rourke, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman Books Jan. 7 2016 3:02 PMBleeding EdgesPaul Lisicky’s lovely and honest memoir of a friendship.

Katy Waldman Brow Beat Dec. 29 2015 1:34 PMSerial Season 2 Is Not As Riveting As Season 1. Movies Dec. 18 2015 1:01 PMSister SnoozeTina Fey and Amy Poehler coast in a limp comedy about siblings who can’t grow up.Katy Waldman Lexicon Valley Dec. 16 2015 11:11 AMAnadiplosis Uses Repetition. Lexicon Valley Dec. 14 2015 4:09 PMResearchers Have Figured Out Why the Word Snunkoople Is FunnyKaty Waldman Brow Beat Dec. 10 2015 10:14 PMSerial Is Back! Books Dec. 9 2015 3:10 PMThe Audio Book Club Invokes Fates and FuriesSlate critics debate Lauren Groff’s ambitious new novel.Emily Bazelon, Laura Miller, and Katy Waldman Lexicon Valley Dec. 8 2015 8:00 AMCongrats, America!

Culturebox Books Brow Beat Brow Beat Brow Beat The Drift Brow Beat Future Tense. London Review of Books · 10 September 2015. Counter-Currents Publishing. The Dying Swan. Tor.com - Science fiction & Fantasy Blog, Books, Stories, News, Forum.