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epub |eng | 2019-08-07 | Author:Benjamin Moser

Chapter 26 The Slave of Seriousness In public, the postcancer Sontag was invulnerable. From the end of the 1970s, she held court alongside other grandees (Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Donald Barthelme) ...
( Category: United States September 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-08-21 | Author:Samuel Pepys

29th (King’s birth­day and Res­taur­a­tion day). Waked with the ringing of the bells all over the towne; so up be­fore five o’clock, and to the of­fice, where we met, and ...
( Category: Authors September 16,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosita Boland

I have just reread this piece. I still have the clipping. I’m looking at it now. I pasted it into a scrapbook long ago. When I first read it in ...
( Category: Authors September 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Edna O'Brien [Edna O'Brien]

THE CITY IS TEEMING with life. Cars, motorcycles and taxis all edging their way in and out, the taxis no bigger than perambulators. Passengers are squeezed into them, their belongings ...
( Category: Authors September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-05 | Author:Radziwill, Carole

friends, I thought. But our relationship stayed superficial in a way I never quite understood. But Anthony adored her. They had fun together, laughing at a long-running joke between the ...
( Category: Women September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:John Hersey

ALFRED KNOPF IN PARADISE “I never suspected this stuff existed. I’m never going to Europe again.” In the meanwhile, several people connected with the Park Service had been making suggestions ...
( Category: Authors September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Yasuko Thanh

* * * — We lived in hotels until I was eighteen. I never did buy new luggage. We moved into a brand-new condo building in the Fairview Slopes neighbourhood, ...
( Category: Women September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Simic [Simic, Charles]

To rescue the banal is every lyric poet’s ambition. All lives are strange, but the lives of immigrants and exiles are even more so. My parents died a long way ...
( Category: Authors September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Benjamin

The interior is the retreat of art. The collector is a true inmate of the interior. He makes the transfiguration of things his business. To him falls the Sisyphean task ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Richard Greene

In the autumn of 1938, Sitwell settled down to work on an anthology for Victor Gollancz, which she hoped to have ready by Christmas. It took until the next summer. ...
( Category: Authors September 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Daisy Dunn [Dunn, Daisy]

Murder, adultery, injustice, and careless disregard for the gods were rife. Near the beginning of the poem, in contrast, Catullus praised the Heroic Age: ‘Heroes, born in the moment most ...
( Category: Rome August 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Moody

April I mean, in the thick of 2013–14, in which Laurel and I were trying to be newlyweds, and human frailty was everywhere happening around us, it was easy on ...
( Category: Authors August 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:John Sutherland [Sutherland, John]

Perhaps it should have been. FN Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov MRT Lolita Biog B. Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and The American Years (2 vols, 1990, 1991) 168. Margaret Mitchell ...
( Category: Journalists August 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-15 | Author:Helene Hanff [Hanff, Helene]

Dear Helene, It seems the workmen will be taking over the entire house and you would be uncomfortable there. But come on the 25 th as planned. My mother is ...
( Category: Authors August 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Simon Armitage [Simon Armitage]

Today’s walk, or at least the first half of it, is reckoned by many to be the most pleasant and least taxing section of the whole trail, a saunter through ...
( Category: Authors August 14,2019 )