Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231199353ISBN-10:023119935XUPC:9780231199353Book Category:Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Personal MemoirsSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCS34HDB1D
Aimlessness
Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and productivity.
Aimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering,...Series: No Limits
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231199353ISBN-10:023119935XUPC:9780231199353Book Category:Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Personal MemoirsSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCS34HDB1D
Tom Lutz is the founding editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at University of California at Riverside. His many books include Born Slippy: A Novel (2020) and Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums (2008), which won the American Book Award.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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