"This is a pretty great job, " said Ms . Behar, who after a decade on the stand-up circuit and as host of a radio show on WABC recently completed a wit-and-wisdom book, " Joy Schtick " ( Hyperion ).
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Angelou wrote five collections of essays, which writer Hilton Als called her " wisdom books " and " homilies strung together with autobiographical texts " . and has been called " one of publishing's hall of fame editors . " Angelou said regarding Loomis : " We have a relationship that's kind of famous among publishers ".
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Her recitation resulted in more recognition for her previous works and broadened her appeal " across racial, economic, and educational boundaries " . " Journey " is, together with the 1997 book " Even the Stars Look Lonesome ", one of the volumes that writer Hilton Als called Angelou's " wisdom book, comprising " homilies strung together with autobiographical texts ".
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In the Old Testament sequence set out by Jerome in the Prologus galeatus, he identifies the books into four categories; The Law ( the five books of Moses ); the Prophets ( including Joshua, Judges and Kings; as well as the major and minor prophets ); the Writings ( including both Poetical and Wisdom books as well as narrative books ); and finally the five apocryphal books of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Judith, Tobit and Maccabees.
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Noteworthy also is the fact that the " mighty acts of God " ( the Exodus, the giving of the Torah at Sinai, the Covenant between God and Israel, etc . ) which make up Israel's history are completely or almost completely absent from Proverbs and the other Wisdom books : in contrast to the other books of the Hebrew bible, which appeal to divine revelation for their authority ( " Thus says the Lord ! " ), wisdom appeals to human reason and observation.
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Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and " stretch over time and place ", from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US . They take place from the beginnings of World War II to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr . Angelou wrote collections of essays, including " Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now " ( 1993 ) and " Even the Stars Look Lonesome " ( 1997 ), which writer Hilton Als called her " wisdom books " and " homilies strung together with autobiographical texts ".
