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A Sidecar Named Desire by Greg Clarke
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Greg Clarke

E. B. White. Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) and no stranger to the martini, began drinking as a student at Barnard College. In an early 1940s ...
( Category: Wine & Spirits May 12,2019 )
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-12 | Author:Michael Slater [Slater, Michael]

are not to be done without trouble; and the main trouble necessary to them, is the devising of some pleasant means of telling what is to be told. The indispensable ...
( Category: Victorian May 12,2019 )
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2009-05-10 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [W. E. K. Anderson]

1828 JANUARY 1 TUESDAY As I walk by myself I talkd to myself And thus myself said to me.1 Since the 20 November 1825, for two months that is and ...
( Category: Authors May 10,2019 )
Something in the Blood by David J. Skal
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:David J. Skal

One half-expected to see witches flying past the chimneypots and people being burned at the stake in Trafalgar Square. People became beasts. Everything that had been progressive and modern in ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural May 10,2019 )
Furious Hours by Casey Cep;
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Casey Cep;

| 17 | The Gift Nelle Lee was twenty-three years old when she moved to Manhattan. By the time she arrived, Truman Capote had already grown sufficiently bored of New ...
( Category: Authors May 9,2019 )
No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani Difranco
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Ani Difranco

ANDY There are a lot of Ukrainians in Canada. You notice this if you hang out there long enough. I guess migrating people like to stick to their latitude. In ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians May 9,2019 )
Nothing's Bad Luck by C. M. Kushins
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:C. M. Kushins

start songs—remember: a Title becomes a chorus becomes a verse becomes a line But above it, Warren had scrawled the philosophy behind the mantra: keep going regardless. “I remember being ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians May 9,2019 )
Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination (9781524742805) by Jones Brian Jay
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Jones, Brian Jay

And SPAZZ is a letter I use to spell Spazzim A beast who belongs to the Nazzim of Bazzim. Handy for traveling. That’s why he has ’im.28 The book was ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 7,2019 )
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor
azw3 |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Yuval Taylor [Taylor, Yuval]

8 SPRING 1930 The Bone of Contention Charlotte Mason had orchestrated it all. Upon Zora’s return to New York in March (she had been in the Bahamas for the last ...
( Category: Authors May 7,2019 )
Riding the Elephant : A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations (9780525533931) by Ferguson Craig
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Ferguson, Craig

This has always been true of Hollywood since the very beginning, when the pioneers of the motion picture industry moved to California in order to avoid lawsuits from Thomas Edison, ...
( Category: Comedy May 7,2019 )
The Existential Englishman by Michael Peppiatt
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Peppiatt

About a fortnight later the Crommelyncks generously return my invitation by asking me to dinner in their elegant apartment on rue de Grenelle. I accept without thinking much about it, ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 6,2019 )
Possessed by Memory by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Harold Bloom

This morbid little splendor has a grisly charm and admits us to a curious kind of comedy. Here is a personal favorite, “Song of the Stygian Naiades”: PROSERPINE may pull ...
( Category: Poetry May 6,2019 )
The Los Angeles Diaries by James Brown
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:James Brown

I am sitting on the floor in the basement. This is where I write. It is night and my wife and children have gone to bed. Daisy is asleep in ...
( Category: Suicide May 6,2019 )
Never a Lovely So Real by Colin Asher
epub |eng | 2019-02-22 | Author:Colin Asher

After Nelson introduces the novel’s most important characters, he sets the plot in motion. Frankie ends up in the alley outside Zero Schwiefka’s one night with Louie Fomorowski and Sparrow, ...
( Category: Authors May 6,2019 )
The End by Bob Seymore
epub |eng | 2012-05-06 | Author:Bob Seymore [SEYMORE, BOB]

Instead of returning to my office I went home and wrote a reply to be faxed straight back to him: Danny, Thanks for your fax of 10/02/90. I was beginning ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians May 6,2019 )

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