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Five Days Gone by Laura Cumming
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Laura Cumming

9 Icarus The first image my mother ever owned, as a new student heady with freedom and hard-won post office shillings, was Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. It ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 30,2019 )
The Perfect Predator by Steffanie Strathdee & Thomas Patterson & Teresa Barker
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Steffanie Strathdee & Thomas Patterson & Teresa Barker

16 SEMPER FORTIS: ALWAYS FAITHFUL, ALWAYS STRONG February 21–26, 2016 The evening of February 21, intent on finding a clue that could lead to phage sources, I spent the night ...
( Category: Microbiology August 30,2019 )
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Lisa Sanders

Deflated “Are you okay?” the man asked his wife. It was two A.M., and he’d awakened to find the bed next to him empty. He found his forty-five-year-old spouse in ...
( Category: Pathology August 27,2019 )
John Lennon by Paul Du Noyer
epub |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Paul Du Noyer

INTUITION In a figure less likeable than Lennon, ‘Intuition’ would indeed be a very annoying song. Set to a cloying, bouncy melody, it’s a number that catches John on a ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians August 27,2019 )
Hearts of Darkness by Dave Thompson
epub |eng | 2012-04-08 | Author:Dave Thompson [Thompson, Dave]

12 Night Owl The music that Doug Weston envisaged, the songs that spoke of “what was on the inside too,” was not a new invention, of course. And neither was ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians August 23,2019 )
True Virtue by Sister Annabel Laity
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Sister Annabel Laity

Gardening in Lower Hamlet, early 1990s. I was very happy when Sister Chan Vi came. To be able to live together with even just one other person in a Sangha ...
( Category: Women August 23,2019 )
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Daisy Dunn [Dunn, Daisy]

Murder, adultery, injustice, and careless disregard for the gods were rife. Near the beginning of the poem, in contrast, Catullus praised the Heroic Age: ‘Heroes, born in the moment most ...
( Category: Rome August 23,2019 )
Pryor Convictions by Richard Pryor
epub |eng | 2018-03-22 | Author:Richard Pryor

Eighteen Back in LA, I started working out again at Redd Foxx’s club. One night Redd gave me a fedora to wear. It was more than a friendly gesture. I ...
( Category: Comedy August 21,2019 )
A Very Irregular Head. The Life of Syd Barrett by Rob Chapman
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Rob Chapman [Chapman, Rob]

Chapter Six We’ll Stray Our Pieces “It’s been quite a long time since you did any poetry”, he remarked. “You might as well have a try this evening, instead of ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians August 20,2019 )
The Long Accomplishment by Rick Moody
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Moody

April I mean, in the thick of 2013–14, in which Laurel and I were trying to be newlyweds, and human frailty was everywhere happening around us, it was easy on ...
( Category: Authors August 19,2019 )
Lives of the Novelists by John Sutherland
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:John Sutherland [Sutherland, John]

Perhaps it should have been. FN Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov MRT Lolita Biog B. Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and The American Years (2 vols, 1990, 1991) 168. Margaret Mitchell ...
( Category: Journalists August 17,2019 )
The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott
epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Karen Abbott

* * * When Remus came downstairs in the morning, Anna, Ryerson, and Klug were already gathered in the kitchen. Each of his senses was amplified, its power sharpened: the ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem August 16,2019 )
Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff
epub |eng | 1986-01-15 | Author:Helene Hanff [Hanff, Helene]

Dear Helene, It seems the workmen will be taking over the entire house and you would be uncomfortable there. But come on the 25 th as planned. My mother is ...
( Category: Authors August 15,2019 )
Never Settle by Marty Smith
epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Marty Smith

Poem “Out Like That” I’m not a songwriter by any stretch. Just wish I was. But it’s not uncommon for me to jot down title ideas or lyrics. I do ...
( Category: Fatherhood August 15,2019 )
Walking Home by Simon Armitage
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Simon Armitage [Simon Armitage]

Today’s walk, or at least the first half of it, is reckoned by many to be the most pleasant and least taxing section of the whole trail, a saunter through ...
( Category: Authors August 14,2019 )

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