Jason Weiss

In Other Lives Our Own, Jason Weiss's nimble prose links rich viewpoints with precise lyricism and meditative calm. In poignant narrative sketches, language, place, time, and experience combine into words with the power to bind existence to memory and thought. Snapshots of joy, loss, change, travel, pain, distance, foreignness, spirituality, and laughter interconnect in his artful reflections; in these moments, you can glimpse parts of your own story.

This book will help you learn some of the sh*t they did not teach you in law school. Not because you went to a bad school or because you did not pay attention in class (or did not get a good grade). This is the stuff you never thought about. More like the business side of the law. This is a guide on how to navigate the profession of law. Think of this book as a tour guide on how to practice. In the end, you answer your own questions, but this book is to be used as a sounding board.___________________________________________________________________________________________________Jason S. Weiss, Esq. concentrates his area of practice on commercial/business matters, sports and entertainment and business transactions. Focusing his practice as a fractional general counsel, he has extensive experience in all aspects of the law. As a business coach who founded "Ask Jason Weiss", Jason helps attorneys in all phases of their careers navigate through the good, the bad, and the ugly of the law. As a father, when Jason is not on a phone call, you can find him pacing the sidelines at his son's lacrosse games or watching his daughter perform on stage at a dance recital. He spends quality time with his wife in their garden growing wonderful herbs, fruits, and vegetables.

In Listenings, Weiss "listens to the world breathing" in this insightful, often humorous, personal journey. These adventures in listening to music (iconic Woodstock, live concerts, on the radio), nature, sounds in the bedroom, in the body, on the street, language in translation, overheard conversations, strangers and loved ones, living and dead, immerses readers in a smart, surprising, and timely exploration of the ways we listen to the world and ourselves.

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo's poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love's travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo's "metaphysical lyricism" (The Independent) represented in this groundbreaking edition.

In 1964, Bernard Stollman launched the independent record label ESP-Disk' in New York City to document the free jazz movement there. A bare-bones enterprise, ESP was in the right place at the right time, producing albums by artists like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Sun Ra, as well as folk-rock bands like the Fugs and Pearls Before Swine. But the label quickly ran into difficulties and, due to the politically subversive nature of some productions and sloppy business practices, it folded in 1974. Always in Trouble tells the story of ESP-Disk' through a multitude of voices-first Stollman's, as he recounts the improbable life of the label, and then the voices of many of the artists involved. To view a complete discography of ESP-Disk' records, visit this webpage: http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/espdiscography.pdf

Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often ended in Paris, long a city of writes in exile. This is more than solely a group biography of these writers or an explication of material they wrote about Paris; it is also a luminous account of the work they wrote while in Paris, often based in their homelands. It explores how Paris reacted to this wave of Latin American writers and how these writers absorbed Parisian influences and welded them to their own traditions setting the stage for immense success and power of works coming from Central and South America over the last half of the twentieth century.

Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often ended in Paris, long a city of writes in exile. This is more than solely a group biography of these writers or an explication of material they wrote about Paris; it is also a luminous account of the work they wrote while in Paris, often based in their homelands. It explores how Paris reacted to this wave of Latin American writers and how these writers absorbed Parisian influences and welded them to their own traditions setting the stage for immense success and power of works coming from Central and South America over the last half of the twentieth century.