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Writing at the Kitchen Table by Artemis Cooper
epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Artemis Cooper [Artemis Cooper]

The delivery of a typescript that represents two or three years of work is always a shaky moment for an author, and to have it received in such a churlishly ...
( Category: Authors August 3,2019 )
Coleridge- Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

…My body bending forward, yea, o’erbalanced Almost beyond recoil, on the dim brink Of a huge chasm I stept. The shadowy moonshine Filling the void so counterfeited substance, That my ...
( Category: Poetry August 3,2019 )
The Victorian Age in Literature by G K Chesterton
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:G K Chesterton [Chesterton, G K]

which certainly was what Meredith himself was doing most of the time. But a similar paradox of the combination of plain tastes with twisted phrases can also be seen in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 2,2019 )
Nailed to History by Martin Power
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Martin Power [Power, Martin]

Chapter Fourteen A Beckoning Silence Arthur Rimbaud wrote about a season in Hell. 1994 had seen the Manic Street Preachers experience almost a year long spell in roughly the same ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians August 2,2019 )
Four Men Shaking by Lawrence Shainberg
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Lawrence Shainberg

Stunned with disbelief, I wrote to thank him and, riding the wave of my excitement, asked if I could one day meet him directly. Again I didn’t expect an answer ...
( Category: Authors August 2,2019 )
Words and Worlds by Alison Lurie
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Alison Lurie

a middle-aged man— but time, gender, self are laws waived by his gold fan. A pearl-diver, a benevolent ghost, and a dancing dragon; that sounds about right. Bon voyage! I ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2019 )
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald

I. Eight Women (These character sketches and stories appeared in College Humor, Scribner’s and Saturday Evening Post between 1927 and 1931, one of them appeared under my name but actually ...
( Category: Letters August 2,2019 )
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Mark Salzman [Salzman, Mark]

Just as the boy grabbed his crotch and shook it for emphasis, the room went quiet. The boy’s mouth kept moving, but no obscenities could be heard. A glance at ...
( Category: Journalism August 2,2019 )
The Parting Years (1963-74) by Cecil Beaton
epub |eng | 2018-07-04 | Author:Cecil Beaton [Beaton, Cecil]

London: Easter 1969 I arranged to take the recently widowed Sybil Cholmondeley to the premiere of the film Oh What a Lovely War. There are few people who still manage ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 2,2019 )
The Restless Years (1955-63) by Cecil Beaton
epub |eng | 2018-07-10 | Author:Cecil Beaton [Beaton, Cecil]

My mother now seems contented to do nothing each day. She does not read a book or a newspaper. She has little interest in the garden, and even her dog ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 2,2019 )
The Years Between (1939-44) by Cecil Beaton
epub |eng | 2018-03-29 | Author:Cecil Beaton [Beaton, Cecil]

June 28th The German radio announced that their armies would be in Alexandria on the 6th and in Cairo by the 9th. Someone at the office said that, if that ...
( Category: World War II August 2,2019 )
The Diaries of Emilio Renzi by Ricardo Piglia
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Ricardo Piglia

And so he tries not to succumb, holding on to the remains of a sharp and free-flowing intelligence, squandered by distraction, because he can clearly see that he has few ...
( Category: Biographical August 2,2019 )
The Wandering Years (1922-39) by Cecil Beaton
epub |eng | 2018-03-15 | Author:Cecil Beaton [Beaton, Cecil]

Someone told me about Mary Pickford’s sister, Lottie. Lottie recently married for the who-knows-what time. Her latest acquisition promptly fired the maid for revealing that he is not an undertaker, ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 2,2019 )
The Strenuous Years (1948-55) by Cecil Beaton
epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Cecil Beaton [Beaton, Cecil]

NEW YORK: THE LUNTS 1952 My first taxi drive from the hotel after my arrival took me to the Lunts[6] for tea. The Lunts, at the height of their stage ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 2,2019 )
The Happy Years (1944-48) by Cecil Beaton
epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:Cecil Beaton [Beaton, Cecil]

LOOKING FOR A NEW HOUSE October, 1947 Since I was thrown out of Ashcombe I have been somewhat forlornly looking for a small house in the country to take its ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 2,2019 )

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