Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Anatole Broyard

12 I found an apartment at last, on Prince Street between Sullivan and Thompson, which was then the south-eastern edge of the Village. It was a tenement like Sheri’s, built ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Salman Rushdie

VI Why It’s Impossible to Photograph the Pampas ON A VISIT TO MIJAS LONG AGO—MIJAS, WHERE MANUEL CORTÉS HAD hidden from Franco for three decades, spending his days in an ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Salman Rushdie

VI Why It’s Impossible to Photograph the Pampas ON A VISIT TO MIJAS LONG AGO—MIJAS, WHERE MANUEL CORTÉS HAD hidden from Franco for three decades, spending his days in an ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Joan Didion

18 I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 1996-12-13 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:D. T. Max

Harris became an old heartthrob, someone who “worked detasseling summer corn with me in high school.” She was in real life neither “a Native Companion,” as Wallace called her in ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Dean Faulkner Wells

*Before Jimmy and T, I had been a hymn-singing Baptist with Mama and Papa. My predestination phase lasted through high school until I discovered and fell in love with the ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Richard Russo

RETURNING TO GLOVERSVILLE yet again might have been a lunatic notion, but it was hardly a new one. The idea began to take form, as near as I could tell, ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston; Maya Angelou

In New Orleans, I delved into Hoodoo, or sympathetic magic. I studied with the Frizzly Rooster, and all of the other noted “doctors.” I learned the routines for making and ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:Augusten Burroughs

He’s surprised to learn that my Southern parents divorced when I was young and that my mother gave me away to her psychiatrist when I was twelve and that I ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1993-08-13 | Author:Neil Gaiman

Life, the Universe, and Everything ************************************************ ZAPHOD: There's nothing wrong with my sense of reality. I have it thoroughly serviced every fortnight. - Cut from radio script, Episode Three. ************************************************ ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-12-14 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

The Fullers—Devuli DEVULI On a recent map entitled “Comfort-Discomfort Belts,” Devuli Ranch is shown in the area of Zimbabwe that is shaded with tight red lines. This means that it ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Witold Gombrowicz

X Friday, Santiago (Witold Gombrowicz, having arrived in Santiago, succumbed to a wave of belated eroticism, the same as before, years ago.… But this time the wave was strengthened by ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nina Sankovitch

Chapter 12 The Expansion of Experience Now that I had taken the pains to learn something about it, I had better ask if I really wanted to know. I did. ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )