From Youtube A lecture by William S. Burroughs including a tape recorded experiment called “Paranormal Voices,” a cut-up experiment of Brion Gysin, experiments with Sommerville, messages from dreams, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and phrases of minimal context. Burroughs also discusses Shakespeare, computers, Homer, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Carl Jung. Lecture […]
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Social Scientists and Weird Titles
There are some books out there with titles and author’s names (or their pen-names) that really make you question the sanity of Mankind in general, and writers in particular. Maybe I’m too straight-laced, but isn’t Menstrual Politics in Malaysia a little too esoteric, not to mention spacey, to write an entire book on? Needless to […]
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A tribute to an excellent sitcom that remains relevant today. Purchase the book here.
Continue readingStupid Headlines
The GOHD Books team consists entirely of former journalists, so we often spend a large amount of time making up stupid headlines that we wish we had had the chance to write. Here are some of them: “Microsoft takes a small bite out of Apple’s market” “Iraqis hungry from lack of Dinars”
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Imam Zaid Shakir: Talks
Woody Allen
The Line Between Truth and Fiction
Everyday, the line between truth and fiction gets blurrer and blurrer. I’ve never been a fan of horror, be it movies, or novels, or even old wives’ tales of ghosts and superstition. I’ve never experienced the usual response of morbid fascination, since there seems to be some mechanism in my brain that insists on reminding […]
Continue readingThe Universe in an Atom
I must say I never paid much attention to the Dalai Lama until I read The Universe in an Atom. Before that, I found him kind of over-rated. The man was on the news all the time; all that media coverage made him seem less like a mysterious holy monk and more like a celebrity […]
Continue readingMalaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things volume 2
I don’t care what people say, this book has to be one of the best I’ve read of late. I know, I know Malaysian Politicians Say The Darndest Things isn’t the most novel theme in the world, and especially not for a Singaporean. In fact, this book is even somewhat redundant – one only needs to […]
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