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It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing by Clark Davis
epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Clark Davis [Davis, Clark]

CHAPTER TEN Blood Kindred 1957–1962 I did not describe William Goyen’s visit one evening. A man in pain—gray-haired but with a youthfulness of gestures and face, a young man upon ...
( Category: Authors December 5,2016 )
The Life of Henry Brulard by John Sturrock
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:John Sturrock

Sunday altar.—Mountains.—Périer garden.—Terrace 40 feet high decked with vines and flowers.—My uncle’s room. J. My private garden next to the water stone.—A. Natural history room.—F. Locked cupboards containing minerals, seashells.—T. ...
( Category: European December 4,2016 )
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think by Shirley Hazzard
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...
( Category: Essays November 29,2016 )
The Prince of los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco

WHEN I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, CACO AND my primas were already gone. Hurt, I realized they must have snuck out of the room early while I was still ...
( Category: Authors November 28,2016 )
Romain Gary: A Tall Story by David Bellos
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:David Bellos [Bellos, David]

18 Masquerade Gary in London, 1954–1955 LESLEY BLANCH GAVE Up her career as a journalist when she married Romain Gary and shortly after became a diplomatic wife. Ten years later, ...
( Category: Authors November 27,2016 )
Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books by Christine Woodside
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Christine Woodside [Woodside, Christine]

8 LIBERTARIANS IN CONNECTICUT “I owe Rose, for helping me, at first, in selling my books and for the publicity she gave them.” —Laura, in a letter to literary agent ...
( Category: Libertarianism November 27,2016 )
Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship by Barney Rosset
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Barney Rosset

It occurred to me, and I am sure it occurred to many other publishers, that since the book was written in 1928 the emotional maturity of the American people has ...
( Category: Censorship November 19,2016 )
Petty by Warren Zanes
epub |eng | | Author:Warren Zanes

15 LIFE BETWEEN THE BRANCHES BELOW Much has been written about the teenager of today—but in every article we’ve seen, one important fact has been overlooked or ignored: namely, that ...
( Category: Rock November 15,2016 )
Coco Chanel: An Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat
epub |eng | 2016-11-12 | Author:Zena Alkayat [Zena Alkayat and Nina Cosford]

COCO ESCAPED PARIS TO A RENTED VILLA IN THE CITY'S SUBURBS. DESPITE HIS NEW MARRIAGE, BOY STRUGGLED TO GIVE HER UP. BY SPRING 1919 HE WAS BACK IN COCO'S ARMS. ...
( Category: Designers November 13,2016 )
Two-Part Invention by L'Engle Madeleine;
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:L'Engle, Madeleine;

Six Sometimes Hugh’s farawayness has been literal; physical, not spiritual. If my childhood and young womanhood were not typical of the usual pattern of growing up in America, neither was ...
( Category: Authors November 7,2016 )
A Circle of Quiet by L'Engle Madeleine;
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:L'Engle, Madeleine;

3 Our youngest child, when he first became conscious of vocabulary, often did violence to words in absurd little ways which delighted us. Hugh and I listened seriously, lest we ...
( Category: Religious November 7,2016 )
The Kite and the String by Alice Mattison
epub |eng | 2016-07-27 | Author:Alice Mattison

Research and reading may be invaluable in writing a novel, not only because they keep us from making mistakes, but because they may suggest story. An actual quarry has plenty ...
( Category: Authors November 6,2016 )
William Carlos Williams by Paul Mariani
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Paul Mariani

1941: With the New Year Laughlin brought out a slim pamphlet of Williams’ poems in his Poet of the Month Series. It was sixteen pages long and Williams called it ...
( Category: United States September 22,2016 )
The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fay Weldon [Weldon, Fay]

31 Thus thought Joanna May, missing Isaac King badly (for he knew what the cards meant, and she could only guess): now, if the four Queens of the Tarot pack, ...
( Category: Authors August 14,2016 )
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Jenny Diski

After waiting that long week for the results of my post-chemo scan, the answer to the hovering question about the effect it had on the tumour in my lung and ...
( Category: Essays August 4,2016 )

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