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A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | 2010-12-02 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

In my early years I don't recall homosexuality, or any sexual irregularity for that matter, being discussed by the "grownups" in the family or their friends. No doubt it was ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Fire in the Belly by Cynthia Carr
epub |eng | 2004-09-23 | Author:Cynthia Carr [Carr, Cynthia]

When Flash Art commissioned Carlo to write yet another East Village roundup, he got David to collaborate on it. They decided to feature, said Carlo, “anyone who was not making ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
The Interior Castle by Ann Hulbert
epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Ann Hulbert [Hulbert, Ann]

The young Cora, suffering from headaches and unhappiness, was distinctly on the outskirts, estranged from her poet husband, Theron Maybank, and skeptical of “Theron the poet’s poet friends. He was ...
( Category: Women Authors March 25,2014 )
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck & Susan Shillinglaw
epub |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck & Susan Shillinglaw [Steinbeck, John & Shillinglaw, Susan]

Ernie Pyle IT’S A HARD THING to write about a dead man who doesn’t seem dead to you. Ernie Pyle didn’t want to go back to the war. When he ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
A Natural Woman by Carole King
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Carole King [KING, CAROLE]

Chapter Twenty Addition, Family Style As the tour drew to a close I was a mass of conflicting emotions. I was excited about going home to my girls, but I ...
( Category: Pop March 25,2014 )
One Drop by Bliss Broyard
epub |eng | 2007-09-26 | Author:Bliss Broyard [BROYARD, BLISS]

A white reporter from the Picayune (a paper that didn’t usually favor black people) was assigned to cover the horrors of school integration. Instead he found “white ladies teaching negro ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Beyond the Occult by Colin Wilson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Colin Wilson

Part Two Powers of Good and Evil 1 The Search for Evidence I have so far been able to present this material in a fairly impersonal and logical manner. Now ...
( Category: Occultism March 25,2014 )
Real Hard Cases by Robert Jeffrey
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Jeffrey [Jeffrey, Robert, Brown, Les]

8 SERIOUS RETAIL REFRESHMENT – FREE There is a rather chauvinist joke about where a woman goes when the going gets tough. A trip to major-league shops, a hit on ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead by Hardy Marieke
epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Hardy, Marieke

Turfed out of my Footscray abode in early November, i embarked on a sort of managed homelessness for the summer. I slept in all manner of posh and tawdry hotel ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
The Devil at Large by Erica Jong
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Erica Jong [Jong, Erica]

The home in Big Sur came to Henry in an almost magical way. He described the process to Anaïs Nin: I told you I am getting a piece of property—a ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure by Walsh Stephen
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Walsh, Stephen [Walsh, Stephen]

By the time Musorgsky put pen to paper on his own new opera, late in October 1868, he had both Lohengrin and parts of the first act of The Maid ...
( Category: Classical March 25,2014 )
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Davis Lydia
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Davis, Lydia [Davis, Lydia]

A Double Negative At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:R. K. Narayan

A SHADOW Sambu demanded, ‘You must give me four annas to see the film tomorrow.’ His mother was horrified. How could this boy! She had been dreading for six months ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Isherwood, Christopher]

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 March 25,2014 )
Hawthorne by Brenda Wineapple
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Brenda Wineapple [Wineapple, Brenda]

CHAPTER TWENTY This Farther Flight And England, the land of my ancestors! Once I had fancied that my sleep would not be quiet in the grave until I should return, ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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