This intimate, engaging autobiographical work from an Irish visitor to the United States recounts the author's own attempt to walk the length of the USA's west coast. Healy's life-changing journey weaves in and out of often humorous reflections on his experiences in America and his development as an artist, navigating both the trail itself and the unique culture of the people who attempt to complete it. For fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild.

Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change.
In what doesn’t sound like the best plan ever, David decided to overcome his fears by pretending to be an accomplished comedian called "Irish Dave" for one full year, crashing as many comedy clubs, festivals, and shows as possible. One part of the plan was at least logical: he was already Irish and already called Dave.
In one year, David went from being deathly afraid of public speaking to hosting a business conference, regularly performing stand-up comedy and winning storytelling competitions in front of packed houses. And he did it by learning from some of the best public speakers in the world: stand-up comedians.
Do You Talk Funny?: 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker shows how the key principles of stand-up comedy can be applied to your speaking engagements and presentations to make you funnier, more interesting, and better looking. (Or at least two of the three.) Whether you are preparing for a business presentation, giving a wedding toast, defending your thesis, raising money from investors, or simply want to take on something you're afraid of, this book will take you from sweaty to stage-ready.
You’ll learn how to:
- Craft a story and content that your audience will want to listen to
- Find the funniest parts of your material and how to get to them faster
- Deal with stage fright
- Master the two most important parts of your performance: timing and delivery
Ten percent of the author's proceeds from this book will go to Arash Bayatmakou via Help Hope Live until he is fully back on his feet and thereafter to one of the many facing the same challenges after suffering a severe spinal cord injury.

故事背景设置在了现代社会，是有关于一个塞尔奇小精灵的民间传说，她是最后一个拥有着海豹外貌却能化为人形的生物，尝试着想要重新回到大海里——那是一个童话世界即将终结的时间点，所有只存在于民间传说中的生物全部在现代社会的影响下，愈加地堕落、腐败，他们根本就不想回去，可小精灵的歌声却是让他们回归的惟一办法…… 一个有点悲伤的故事，却以一种非常美好的方式呈现出来。

《等待戈多》写的是发生在两个黄昏的事情，但是没有什么情节可言。主角是两个流浪汉，背景是一片荒野，路旁只有一棵枯树，两个流浪汉就是树下等待着一个叫戈多的人。他们一面做着闻臭靴子之类的无聊动作，一面在语无论次地梦呓。最后有一个男孩来说戈多今晚不来了，第一幕就算结束。第二幕就是第一幕的重复，只是当知道戈多又不来的时候，他们就想上吊，结果裤带一拉就断，于是只能毫无希望地等待下去。
写于1948年的两幕剧《等待戈多》历来被认为是荒诞派戏剧的经典之作。

二战时，男孩戴维的妈妈得了重病。他强迫自己执行一套规定，因为他相信妈妈的命运跟他的行为联系在一起：单数糟，双数好，所以他无论做什么都要双数……尽管他小心翼翼，可妈妈还是弃他而去。丧母的悲伤和痛楚，使戴维不能自已。父亲再婚所带来的惊愕和冲击，对继母及新生儿弟弟的嫉妒与憎恶…深深的幽怨在戴维的身边织就一个幻灵的诡境，他听见了书在说话。从小就和妈妈一起阅读的童话故事，迥异于常的白雪公主、小红帽、骑士罗兰……从黑夜里、从林地里召唤戴维，呼唤他进入一个充满残酷、血腥、征伐的险境。在那里，一切如同真实的人生道路，充满了险恶和重重难关。惟有不逃避、惟有肯原谅，惟有找到神奇国度里那本被遗忘的《失物之书》，戴维才能得到新生。

No music reviewer would make a career writing about pianists solely from repeated performances of a single concerto, nor any pianist out of playing just the one piece. Yet sometimes writing about stand-up comedians can feel worryingly like this. They all hit more or less the same notes: London... young people... children and parenthood... today's dreadful music... religion... growing up in Ireland (obviously not every comic includes this movement, though sometimes it feels like it)... finishing off with differences between men and women, usually with reference to naughty bits and/or naughty business. The difference lies in the phrasing, the flourishes, the individual expression brought to the work by the performer.
Dylan Moran, appearing for seven nights at the West End's Palace Theatre while it spends the summer between blockbuster musicals, plays the standard concerto. It's in the phrasing that his skill resides. His slurred, bellowing delivery and shambling, half-cut persona (although in almost two hours he put away perhaps a third of a glass of white wine) are no longer as novel as they once were, but they belie a greater than average discipline in his material.
Moran certainly has a gift for the surreal image and the unexpected adjective, but his spontaneous flights of fancy are brief and a little diffident. He prefers to hone his phrases and seems to script them quite tightly; like a snooker player, he can control exactly the angle at which the ball will come off the back cushion. At times he simply sounds like an early-middle-aged grouch, berating young people for "texting each other because they've given up on speech", but when he stretches out and lets fly with his magnificent vocabulary, he's in a different league. He can use a near-nonsense word like "quadrangulate" meaningfully, or wonder about Ann Widdecombe's voice, "How do you get that many fingernails on one blackboard?" Sometimes the word-images work through bizarreness, sometimes they're simply there to add colour or emphasis in unexpected ways: a granny mentioned in passing is so much less prosaic when she's an emphysemic granny. And the mere phrase "fellating a Smurf" is as euphonious as the image it evokes is disconcerting.
Moran's growing film and TV career are vying with his live work for supremacy now, and indeed he's slightly less appealing a performer on stage than one might expect. But the words, oh, the words...!
Written for the Financial Times.

叶芝是诺贝尔文学奖得主，本书主要选译他的情诗。对诗歌的热情在读者中现在有逐渐回潮的趋势，叶芝的诗歌又是现代主义的外衣下具有传统的浪漫之美与形式之美，可以说是容易被读者接受的现代诗歌。叶芝的情诗非常出色，也非常有名。叶芝的译本有许多种，但问题是，普遍译得缺乏美感，而且，装贞设计上也过于传统，把诗集当作纯文学的图书来包装，这就在一定程度上制约了市场。本书的译文追求易于被现代读者接受的美感，并辅以彩色图片和优雅的设计，希望能够以此来引领诗歌阅读的回流。

这是一部由音乐开启的爱尔兰电影。　卖花女（Marketa Irglova）被街头艺人（Glen Hansard饰）的音乐所吸引，开始了一段荡气回肠的浪漫故事。他们不是王子和公主，各自有着琐碎的生活，但是他们有个共同点，那就是对音乐的热爱。在一次合奏中，他们找到了彼此间惊人的默契。这个发现让他们兴奋，很快他们找到了另外的一个同伴，组成了一个乐队，并通过优秀的表现得到了专业人士的肯定。与此同时，爱情也在逐渐萌芽。音乐是这部电影最大的亮点之一，塑造了极其浪漫唯美的氛围。

森林里住着两只熊，一只叫大大熊，一只叫小小熊。白天，他们一起玩；晚上，大大熊领着小小熊回到熊熊洞里。但是小小熊睡不着，因为他怕黑，大大熊为他点上盏小灯。可小小熊还是睡不着，还是怕黑。大大熊为他点上大一点的灯最后连灯王都点上了，但小小熊还是说怕黑 ——熊熊洞外的黑。这下大大熊可就为难了，因为就算把全世界的灯都点亮也照不亮外面世界的黑呀。怎么办呢？最后，大大熊牵着小小熊到熊熊洞外，大大熊抱着小小熊，面对外头漆黑的夜晚，只见星月当空，温柔如水的月光下，小小熊竟自然而然地在大大熊温暖、安全的怀抱里心满意足地睡着了……
其实我们应该知道“小小熊”期盼更多的，是“大大熊”的怀抱！“小小熊”一直说着怕黑，其实是在期盼着“大大熊”抱着自己，陪着自己入睡。月亮是光明的，可是“大大熊”的怀抱才是比月亮更光明的“月亮”呀！这个睡前图画故事温馨感人，值得一读再读。