Life and Essence Books, part of Time Warner, has published a book bearing the Life brand, "Titanic: The Tragedy That Shook the World: One Century Later".
Scattered in libraries and hiding places across Europe was, in essence, the book that Richard Dehmel had prophesied decades before: the supreme memoir of the grand European fin de siècle.
Then, reading it again recently, I was struck by something interesting (and possibly in retrospect obvious): this is in its very essence a book about sharing; about sharing everything about yourself with somebody.
In essence, the book relates how Nelson encounters a lover (the artist Harry Dodge) who is neither man nor woman, they marry as an act of political protest just before the law enabling homosexual marriage is revoked in California, and together they engage in a series of radical bodily experiments.
He writes in the Treatise that "pleasure and pain….are not only necessary attendants of beauty and deformity, but constitute their very essence" (Treatise, Book II, part I, section viii).
'Challenging Cancer' is divided into four sections, and although the linking theme is cancer, in essence this book could be four small separate pieces.
In essence this book has been mainly constructed to put into biological context a review of clinical trials and lymphoma management using different cytotoxic chemotherapy regimes with or without autologous or allogeneic stem cell rescue.
The return of "Gatz" to New York got me to thinking about other attempts to capture the essence of books on stage.
A critic's notebook article on Saturday about efforts to capture the essence of books on stage misspelled the name of the main character in Tolstoy's novella "The Kreutzer Sonata".
Consumer advocates and civil libertarians say the system could allow courts or governments to force Amazon to recall, and in essence censor, books that they deem politically dangerous or embarrassing.
