Author: Victorino Matus File Type: epub It began as poisonous rotgut in Medieval RussiaIvan the Terrible liked it, Peter the Great loved itbut this grain alcohol without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color has become our uncontested king of spirits. Over a thousand brands fight for market share, shelved in glass skulls, Tommy guns, bulletproof bottles flavored with pears, currants, chipotle or quintuple distilled by Donald Trump. But it wasnt always thus. For 200 years, America drank the brown stuff, which gave us Colonial rumrunners, the Whiskey Rebellion, and Bourbon County, Kentucky. So how did Russias little water, originally a medieval rotgut medicine, unseat Americas favorite hooch? Vic Matus takes us on an incredible visual journey from vodkas humble American origins in a Depression-era Connecticut factoryusing the family recipe from a poor Russian exile in France named Vladimir Smirnovthrough its rise to glamour and fame at the hands of James Bond and the 1990s boom enshrined in Sex and the Citys Grey Goose Cosmos to todays craft distillery movement, which approaches the drink as an art form. Youll see in clear, intoxicating detail how hippie culture, womens lib, and an absolutely ingenious Swedish company all played their part, transforming the booze into a status symbol. By 1975, the war had ended Vodka officially became our favorite spirit. Today, a third of all cocktails ordered contain it. Last year $20 billion in sales poured in from more than 140 million gallons of the stuff. Here is the crisply distilled, bracing story of how risk-taking entrepreneurs defied the odds and turned medieval medicine into a multibillion-dollar industry. **

Author: Lois Jones File Type: epub German native Armin Meiwes placed this ad in an internet chatroom catering to cannibals. He received 430 responses. Among them was Bernd Juergen Brandes, who arrived at Meiwess isolated country home literally to be eaten alive. Escorted to the slaughtering roomequipped with meat hooks, a cage, and a butchers tableMeiwes assisted Bernd in a gourmet candlelight dinner of his own cooked flesh. Meiwes then stabbed his victim in the throatbringing the ghastly videotaped ordeal to an end. From a childhood perverted by unhealthy obsessions to his notorious trial that ended in a stunning verdict, Cannibal discloses for the first time the true story of a real-life Hannibal Lecter and his victim. And with details never before divulged to the public, it takes readers step-by-step through the unspeakable crime that fascinated and revolted the world. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author: John B. Lyon File Type: pdf Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose. Review Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture contains wide-ranging, thoroughly researched, socio-historically informed explorations of writing and publishing practices between 1750 and 1850 that challenge ingrained assumptions about gender and literary production. By framing authorship in terms of collaboration (as opposed to influence or competition), the volumes contributors offer fresh insights into how authority actually worked in the literary world of that period. The essays also provide valuable historical information about the ways in which gender operated in both the production and consumption of literary artifacts. Laurie Johnson, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative and World Literature, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USAThis collection of essays makes a major intervention into our understanding of the German Sturm und Drang and Romantic periods. The volume offers fascinating insights into literary collaborations between women and men and opens the door to new, complex understandings of authorship that transcend the single-author model. The collaborative projects introduced here enabled women writers to create unique strategies for confronting the power inequities of their time and, by extension, to transform the literary field. Susan E. Gustafson, Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies, University of Rochester, USA About the Author Laura Deiulio is Associate Professor of German at Christopher Newport University, USA. She has published essays on Lou Andreas-Salome, Esther Gad, and Rahel Levin Varnhagens correspondences with Pauline Wiesel and Auguste Brede. John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature (2006) and Out of Place German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Author: Nicholas Thoburn File Type: pdf Ceci nest pas un magazine The politics of hybrid media in Mute magazineNicholas ThoburnNew Media Society published online 5 December 2011