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A Susan Sontag Reader by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Susan Sontag

Godard It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that, whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )
Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland by Paul De Barros
mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Paul De Barros [De Barros, Paul]

12. The Jazz Renaissance (1973–1978) THE “JAZZ RENAISSANCE” is usually said to have begun around 1976, but the music had begun to seep back into American soil early in the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 10,2018 )
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
epub |eng | | Author:Roberto Calasso

A LETTER TO A STRANGER The cover flap is a humble and arduous literary form for which there is as yet no theorist or historian. For a publisher, it is ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides April 10,2018 )
Tunesmith by Jimmy Webb
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Jimmy Webb [WEBB, JIMMY]

This is our most dissonant alternate bass so far. It seems not so much to desire a resolution toward another chord as to want to slide off a whole step ...
( Category: Music April 10,2018 )
1501140183 (N) by Penn Jillette
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Penn Jillette [Jillette, Penn]

FROM TARGET TO BIRTHDAY CrayRay hadn’t seen me in person since Thanksgiving (although he had seen pictures of me). We were going to meet on my birthday, and I was ...
( Category: Humor April 10,2018 )
Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Paul Kincaid

APPROACHING THE WORLDGOD It was more than a year after Look to Windward appeared in the United Kingdom before it was published by Pocket Books in the United States. Consequently, ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 10,2018 )
Emerson by Robert D. Richardson Jr
epub |eng | 2015-04-10 | Author:Robert D. Richardson Jr.

we talk better than we are wont. We have the nimblest fancy, a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time. For long hours we can ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 10,2018 )
The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich by Feigel Lara
epub |eng | 2016-01-28 | Author:Feigel, Lara [Feigel, Lara]

Culture was now pouring into Germany and it looked as though soon Marshall Plan money would be as well. It would be some time before daily life in Germany became ...
( Category: Historical April 10,2018 )
Be Fierce by Gretchen Carlson
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Gretchen Carlson

“WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT?” Heather McDonald is a successful stand-up comic with a raucous wit and a tendency to speak her mind, sometimes in an edgy way. I mention ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 10,2018 )
A Cellarful of Noise by Brian Epstein
epub |eng | 2016-11-05 | Author:Brian Epstein [Brian Epstein]

I said: ‘Me, for one. Would you care to have a manager? I can’t promise anything yet but I think you would be a very good recording artiste.’ Cilla said ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 10,2018 )
Every Day I'm Hustling by Vivica A. Fox
epub |eng | | Author:Vivica A. Fox

LESSON TEN THE DEVIL IS FINE, AND THAT’S HOW HE GETS YOU For years, I took the high road with him. In my own twisted way, I was being true ...
( Category: Memoirs April 10,2018 )
The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Fiona MacCarthy [Fiona MacCarthy]

In June 1881 Rossetti wrote to Janey: ‘I heard something almost inconceivable – that is, that Ned has gone to spend a week at the countryside house of Lewis the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 10,2018 )
Acid Christ by Mark Christensen
epub |eng | 2010-04-10 | Author:Mark Christensen [Christensen, Mark]

while sixteen year-old Frank smoked a joint as if it were a Marlboro, and flirted with the teeny-bopper carhops. Los Angeles seemed made for a West Coast generation that, in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 10,2018 )
McQueen's Motorcycles by Matt Stone
epub |eng | 2016-04-10 | Author:Matt Stone

A fully suited up McQueen aboard a Honda Elsinore, wearing an Elsinore shirt. This bike was one of Honda’s first fully dedicated off-road machines—not so coincidentally named after the race ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 10,2018 )
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry Thoreau
epub |eng | 2010-04-19 | Author:Henry Thoreau

Refuse shingles for roof and sides, 4 00 Laths, 1 25 Two second-hand windows with glass, 2 43 One thousand old brick, 4 00 Two casks of lime, 2 40 ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 10,2018 )

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