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Dancing Fish and Ammonites A Memoir by Penelope Lively
epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Penelope Lively [Lively, Penelope]

Memory A couple of years ago, Izzy yearned for an old-fashioned manual typewriter: “Vintage!” A Smith Corona was found off eBay, and she rejoiced in it until a new ribbon ...
( Category: Authors June 27,2019 )
Diaries by George Orwell & Edited by Peter Davison
epub |eng | 2012-07-12 | Author:George Orwell & Edited by Peter Davison

( Category: Authors June 26,2019 )
White Hand Society by Peter Conners
epub |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Peter Conners

The King of May Throughout 1964 and 1965, Allen Ginsberg was deeply involved in the newest countercultural movements in New York City. The mid-Sixties saw an influx of avant-garde filmmakers ...
( Category: United States June 25,2019 )
Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus Iii
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Andre Dubus Iii [Dubus, Andre Iii]

BY LATE fall, Jeb and I were building things together again. Our boss was Trevor D., a lanky British man who wanted to be a millionaire before he turned thirty. ...
( Category: Authors June 24,2019 )
Stet: An Editor's Life by Athill, Diana (2002) Paperback by Diana Athill
epub |swe | 1709-03-15 | Author:Diana Athill [Athill, Diana]

PART TWO IN 1962 I WROTE – and meant – the following description of the relationship between publisher and writer. It is an easy one, because the publisher usually meets ...
( Category: Journalists June 23,2019 )
Scenes from Provincial Life: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J. M.]

Fifteen He must find ways to save money. Lodging is his single biggest expense. He advertises in the classified section of the Hampstead local paper: ‘House-sitter available, responsible professional man, ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania June 22,2019 )
Alfred Bester by Smith Jad;
epub |eng | | Author:Smith, Jad;

Bester's The Demolished Man, first U.S. edition, Shasta, 1953. Jacket design by Martin Herbstman. Reprinted by permission of Erle Melvin Korshak. Bester's The Demolished Man, first U.K. edition, Sidgwick and ...
( Category: Authors June 21,2019 )
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2019 )
Jerusalem! by Tobias Churton
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Tobias Churton

As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb; his ...
( Category: Religion June 17,2019 )
Conversations with James Salter by Jennifer Levasseur & Kevin Rabalais
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Jennifer Levasseur & Kevin Rabalais

Interview with James Salter Robert Franden / 2007 From Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Reprinted courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. Ransom Center Advisory Council Member Robert ...
( Category: United States June 16,2019 )
Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Ryan Leigh Dostie

One day a different Iraqi translator visits my guard tower. He’s not a regular at our camp, but he’s on loan from the First Armored Division, clearly higher ranking in ...
( Category: Iraq War June 15,2019 )
LIVEBLOG by megan Boyle
epub |eng | 2019-06-11 | Author:megan Boyle

MAY 6, 2013 2:12am: looked at phone again, 2mg Xanax for sleep 7am: woke peed ate 1mg Xanax for sleep 1–2:00pm: woke and wanted to continue sleeping. zachery couldn’t find ...
( Category: Authors June 12,2019 )
Out East by John Glynn
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:John Glynn

Back in the kitchen, everyone glowed a healthy crimson. Drunk from Cyril’s, Timmy donned a pair of Ashley’s wedges. He dropped his shoulders, twisted his hips, the shoes sliding along ...
( Category: Authors June 12,2019 )
Ernesto by Andrew Feldman
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Andrew Feldman

During the three weeks following the release of The Old Man and the Sea, eighty to ninety letters a day arrived at the Finca Vigía from high school kids, soldiers, ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
Letters to Rose by Rose Williams
epub |eng | 2019-04-05 | Author:Rose Williams

Dear Rose, I would like to start out by saying thank you. Thank you for being strong enough and brave enough to tell your truly heart-breaking story. I will forever ...
( Category: Letters June 11,2019 )

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