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Georges Perec: A Life in Words by David Bellos
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:David Bellos [Bellos, David]

By the time Perec began to work on L’Arbre, his celebrity as the winner of the 1965 Renaudot Prize had faded almost completely in France, but it had begun to ...
( Category: French July 10,2020 )
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

This is Baldwin’s revolutionary act: to shift or invert the “white man’s burden.” The problem is not us. Instead Americans must understand as best we can, because our lives depend ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 9,2020 )
Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
epub |eng | 1998-07-14 | Author:Michael Schmidt [Schmidt, Michael]

Something must be wrong with a style that can aestheticize and morally neutralize such a scene. Six months, and I sit still and hold In two cold palms her two ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 9,2020 )
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Anonymous

Thank you again for making such an effort to be at the show tonight. I’ll email pictures too when I get home.—Lyle How can you possibly be so fabulous? I ...
( Category: Authors July 9,2020 )
Return to Paris: A Memoir by Colette Rossant
epub |eng | 2004-04-19 | Author:Colette Rossant [Rossant, Colette]

In the next few weeks we got several postcards from Jimmy addressed to the family. Nothing special for me. He was having a great time, he wrote, and hoped to ...
( Category: French July 9,2020 )
Letters to an American Lady by C. S. Lewis
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:C. S. Lewis

The Kilns Headington Quarry Oxford, England 4/1/57 Dear Mary Thank you for your letter of the 28th with enclosures. I must try not to let my own present unhappiness harden ...
( Category: Authors July 9,2020 )
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Brad Gooch [Gooch, Brad]

Photo section 2 At The Club, with Lucia Dlugoszewski, Joe LeSueur, Mike Kanemitsu Ronald Bladen, and Golda Lewis, March 1959 the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah With Franz Kline at ...
( Category: Authors July 9,2020 )
Simon Leys by Philippe Paquet
epub |eng | | Author:Philippe Paquet

We Are All Chinese Simon Leys had placed Chinese Shadows under the patronage of Lu Xun, or Lu Hsun, quoting as an epigraph40 the passage in which Lu Xun, who ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian July 8,2020 )
Mario Vargas Llosa by Raymond Leslie Williams
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Raymond Leslie Williams [Williams, Raymond Leslie]

PART III Rereading Vargas Llosa All of Vargas Llosa’s sixteen novels have to do, to varying degrees, with trauma, loss, and dealing with these and closely related issues as they ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American July 8,2020 )
Hole in the Sky: A Memoir by William Kittredge
epub |eng | 1993-06-01 | Author:William Kittredge [Kittredge, William]

In the early summer of 1954, when my daughter was an infant and my wife and I were both of us twenty-one, we lived on the second floor of an ...
( Category: Authors July 8,2020 )
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Nicolson

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House in 1926, with Pinka (Flush) in the foreground. A photograph taken by Vita. The general strike of May 1926 was more of an ...
( Category: Authors July 8,2020 )
In the Land of Good Living by Kent Russell
epub |eng | 2020-07-06 | Author:Kent Russell

INT. CLUTTERED HOME OFFICE—LATE AFTERNOON Kent sits uneasily on a sunflower-print couch next to JULIAN, the plump, horseshoe-bald, Platonic ideal of a BUFFALO SNOWBIRD. Shelved around them are books and ...
( Category: Authors July 7,2020 )
If It Die by Andre Gide
epub |eng | 2014-12-16 | Author:Andre Gide [Gide, André]

In describing our apartment, I have not spoken of the library. The fact is that after my father’s death, my mother refused to allow me into it. The room was ...
( Category: French July 7,2020 )
My Father's Places: A Memoir by Dylan Thomas' Daughter by Aeronwy Thomas
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Aeronwy Thomas [Thomas, Aeronwy]

While he was betting, talking, listening and drinking, Mother and I tidied his shed. One day she lit the paraffin-fuelled stove as usual while he was out so that it ...
( Category: Poetry July 7,2020 )
Conversations with Ken Kesey by Scott F. Parker
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Scott F. Parker [Parker, Scott F.]

Ken Kesey: The Prince of Pransksters Rick Saunders, Bob Nesbitt, and Vaughn Binzer / 1976 From Marijuana Monthly, Vol. 2 No. 3. © 1976 by Marijuana Monthly. Anyone with the ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )

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