Arts & Literature
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-21 | Author:George Takei [Takei, George]

By the Numbers When I first started posting my miscellany online, I had only one number to keep track of — Twitter followers. At the time, I didn’t have a ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers August 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Joel Selvin

* Billboard Hot 100 Top Five, week of August 15, 1964: 1. “Where Did Our Love Go” by the Supremes; 2. “Everybody Loves Somebody” by Dean Martin; 3. “A Hard ...
( Category: Jazz August 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories

Shadows and Reflections The first time I heard the distinctive melodic instrumental music of the Shadows I was instantly smitten. It was the beginning of a lifelong admiration for the ...
( Category: Rock August 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Just Kids

Gregory took me to the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, which was a poets’ collective at the historic church on East Tenth Street. When we went to listen to the poets ...
( Category: Women August 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Modigliani: A Life

Beatrice Hastings at the turn of the century (image credit 10.2) In Minnie Pinnikin Modigliani has the name of Pâtredor, or Pinarius, and the first chapter is a description of ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

CHAPTER VII. THE EVERLASTING NO. Under the strange nebulous envelopment, wherein our Professor has now shrouded himself, no doubt but his spiritual nature is nevertheless progressive, and growing: for how ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Andrew Meredith [Meredith, Andrew]

* * * There were other teachers, too. “Get the fuck in, get the fuck out. Ya got me? Get the fuck in, get the fuck out. That’s the whole ...
( Category: Death August 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Christopher Isherwood

TEN On March 26, 1934, Christopher left London to rejoin Heinz in Amsterdam. Thus he symbolically rejected Kathleen’s England. But this short journey was to be only the first phase ...
( Category: Literary Criticism August 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Edward Abbey [Abbey, Edward]

A day later we’re riding the ferrocarril, the iron road from Creel to the west coast of Mexico. But we stop for two days at a point on the rim ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 23,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Marilyn Manson

AMERICA, MEET MARILYN MANSON: PART TWO OF A TWO-PART STORY by Sarah Fim Empyrean Magazine, 1995 When we last left Marilyn Manson, he was in his hotel room snorting coke ...
( Category: Heavy Metal August 23,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

XII “MIT has played an important part in the history of my branch of the Vonnegut family. My father and grandfather took degrees in architecture here. My Uncle Pete flunked ...
( Category: Authors August 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Sean Madigan Hoen [Hoen, Sean Madigan]

6 The two-dollar fare to cross the Ambassador Bridge was a better option than the Windsor Tunnel, which plunged you beneath the water through a cylinder of diesel-blown tile. From ...
( Category: Punk August 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Kevin Brockmeier [Brockmeier, Kevin]

The school is asleep in the drizzling rain. From Mr. Weatherly’s room comes a burst of laughter like a balloon popping: pierce a crowd with a needle, and bang!—that’s the ...
( Category: Authors August 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Kevin Brockmeier

The school is asleep in the drizzling rain. From Mr. Weatherly’s room comes a burst of laughter like a balloon popping: pierce a crowd with a needle, and bang!—that’s the ...
( Category: Authors August 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:James Garner [Garner, James]

The chemistry was so great, in fact, a lot of people thought we were married in real life. Probably the ones who thought I was really Maverick. (The same thing ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers August 21,2014 )