Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Bobby Hundreds

20. ALLOVER THE EASIEST WAY to chronicle streetwear is by trend. Nobody keeps track of the straightforward stuff—the yarn-dye striped shirts, and coach’s jackets, and knit beanies. That’s all white ...
( Category: Fashion Design June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Cathy Parker

CHAPTER 13 WELCOME TO JACKSONVILLE That’s Brian! I recognized the assistant coach as soon as I saw him exiting the terminal at the Jacksonville airport. When I had asked Brian ...
( Category: Inspirational June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Andre Iguodala

* * * — Doug Collins was my final coach in Philadelphia. He had come back to the sidelines out of the broadcast booth, and I played under him for ...
( Category: African-American & Black June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marie Mutsuki Mockett

ELEVEN WHERE THE DEAD GO ACCORDING TO THE JAPANESE, when children die, their souls gather on a riverbank called Sai no Kawara. In the Pure Land sect of Buddhism, it’s ...
( Category: Japanese June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Tony Judt [Judt, Tony]

This essay, a review of The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye Jr., first appeared in The New York ...
( Category: Essays June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maria Coffey

A month after I stood in that phone booth in Vienna, Chris Bonington received the roll of film, the evidence of the body on the mountain. He sent the images ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lars Eighner

NINE Phlebitis: At the Public Hospital I pressed my thumb into my left ankle. I easily produced a half-inch dent in the watery swelling, and the dent remained in my ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 24,2019 )
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 )
epub |eng | 1992-12-31 | Author:Pamela Des Barres [Des Barres, Pamela]

May 6—Taking it day to day. I’m poking along after a gross bout with food poisoning (infected tuna sandwich in the car) and a forty-eight-hour migraine. I didn’t think I ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Jennifer Zeng

A few days later the camp leader summoned me again and went over the same thing: the informal discussion with reformed Falun Gong practitioners was an opportunity not to be ...
( Category: Women June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Graves [Graves, Tom]

I knew I was doomed when Ken Burns swanned into town. The esteemed documentary filmmaker was promoting his upcoming PBS series on jazz and part of his promotional tour involved ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Dina Nayeri [Dina Nayeri]

PART THREE ASYLUM (on stories and the alchemy of truth) I. We landed in Will Rogers World Airport on a stifling July day in 1989. Jim, the American writer Maman ...
( Category: Immigration June 23,2019 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Bush, Laura [Laura, Bush,]

George worked hard to reach out to Putin in spite of the philosophical divide between them. The next morning at the ranch, the four of us had breakfast and then ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Elaine Welteroth

* * * — FUTURE HUSBAND TOOK ME shopping for “interview shoes” at Bergdorf’s. He sat back on the sofa watching me parade around, trying on heels, and silently slipped ...
( Category: African-American & Black June 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-08 | Author:Jim Acosta

ACOSTA: How can the White House Chief of Staff, how can the Press Secretary, how can this White House still be standing behind him when Mr. Porter appeared to be ...
( Category: Elections June 22,2019 )