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Magic Words The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore by Lance Parkin
mobi |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Lance Parkin

‘At his fortieth birthday party, he declared himself a magician. He wasn’t of course. He couldn’t even do balloon animals. Not long after that, he started worshipping a snake. You ...
( Category: Historical & Biographical Fiction November 25,2014 )
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
epub |eng | 1988-11-22 | Author:Alan Bennett [Alan Bennett]

Even with the final dress rehearsals no alarm bells rang. The play was too long, admittedly, and ought to have been cut in rehearsal or, better still, beforehand, which is ...
( Category: Drama November 24,2014 )
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Philip Larkin [Larkin, Philip]

Monday Am propped up on my studio couch, having at last found a way of ‘sitting comfortably’ – one end pushed up against the wall behind, &, not a carrot, ...
( Category: Poetry November 24,2014 )
Just As I Thought by Grace Paley
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Grace Paley [Paley, Grace]

—1984 Of Poetry and Women and the World Our panel has a kind of odd definition, and I think the three of us have taken it to mean whatever we ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
Calcutta by Amit Chaudhuri
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Amit Chaudhuri [Chaudhuri, Amit]

Someone I know, also a well-to-do victim of polio and frequenter of the Bengal Club, but one who continues to walk with crutches with a staccato, oppositional ferocity, once told ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 24,2014 )
The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (Valancourt eClassics) by A.J.A. Symons
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:A.J.A. Symons [Symons, A.J.A.]

Rolfe always rolled his own cigarettes, and when in funds had his own ‘Corvo mixture’ made up at a little tobacco shop in Oxford. It had a heavy full flavour, ...
( Category: Authors November 24,2014 )
Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra
epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Vikram Chandra

Programmers work doggedly toward correctness, but the sheer size and complexity of software ensures that bugs lurk within. A bug is, of course, a flaw or fault in a program ...
( Category: Authors November 24,2014 )
Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore by Parkin Lance
epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Parkin, Lance [Parkin, Lance]

‘At his fortieth birthday party, he declared himself a magician. He wasn’t of course. He couldn’t even do balloon animals. Not long after that, he started worshipping a snake. You ...
( Category: Historical & Biographical Fiction November 23,2014 )
The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Azar Nafisi [Nafisi, Azar]

5 It seems quite simple, this condemnation of consumer society, until one realizes that we are, of course, part of the problem. What are my exact grievances against my laptop, ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
Wheels Within Wheels by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

My dearest Dervla, There is no need to tell you that Charlie Kerins met his death with the greatest possible courage and bravery. I was allowed to visit him on ...
( Category: Travel November 23,2014 )
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-19 | Author:John Irving [Irving, John]

At home, Kit — the receiver of messages, the composer of rooms — had news for him. First, Margaret Brant had left word she was dropping the Harlan Booth assault ...
( Category: Short Stories November 23,2014 )
Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Bobbie Ann Mason [Mason, Bobbie Ann]

Meanwhile, at home, my mother wrote me about the garden and the weather and broken machinery. She wrote, “You told about reading about that guy that built a cabin at ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Augusten Burroughs [Burroughs, Augusten]

If you have to be single and you have to be bitter and you also have to be without family for the holidays, Manhattan is the only place to be. ...
( Category: Authors November 23,2014 )
And Home Was Kariakoo by M.G. Vassanji
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:M.G. Vassanji [Vassanji, M.G.]

I walk up the highway, and after a short while turn right—as directed—into a road that’s rather unusual in that it has been paved with cut stones; it’s intact and ...
( Category: Africa November 23,2014 )
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:John Lahr [Lahr, John]

Back in 1959, Frank Corsaro had asked Williams to contribute a one-act play to be performed as part of a double bill with William Inge’s The Tiny Closet at the ...
( Category: Authors November 23,2014 )

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