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epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Sarah Gerard

We wear plastic gloves and greet each person. Again I serve grits. Some people ask for the grits on top of their eggs. Some crack jokes. Some prefer not to ...
( Category: Authors May 1,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith

9 A Vision of Agape It was a summer evening, in June, and I was on my way to a speaking engagement in Perthshire, a part of Scotland that I ...
( Category: Poetry April 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helena Kelly

CHAPTER 5 ‘The Chain and the Cross’ Mansfield Park London, 1813.a The little girls, who had hoped for an evening at one of the theatres, are indulging in a fit ...
( Category: European March 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Paul Auster [Auster, Paul]

My money didn’t last as long as I thought it would. I found an apartment within a week of my arrival, and once I had shelled out for the agency ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

14) What’s the one question you always wish interviews would ask? There really aren’t any. The problem with interviews (including even very considerate ones where you let me write answers ...
( Category: United States March 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-12 | Author:Stephen J. Burn [Burn, Stephen J.]

David Foster Wallace: In the Company of Creeps Lorin Stein/1999 From Publishers Weekly, 3 May 1999. © 1999 by PWxyz. Reprinted by permission. “It wasn’t till I saw the galleys ...
( Category: United States March 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Reiner Stach [Stach, Reiner]

III. cont. What to do on rainy days. Or possibly on the last day. Art gallery, on the cheap day. Only a few important pictures. But in thorough detail (like ...
( Category: Modern March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Reiner Stach [Stach, Reiner]

It was his first publication, at the age of twenty-four, and Kafka was surely heartened. Might it not be possible after all to patch together “Description of a Struggle” into ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

4 The difference between human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the ...
( Category: Russian March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Betsy Lerner

CHAPTER 11 The Finesse “Have a look.” My mother sends me the newsletter from the Orange Senior Center, which is in the next town over. She’s affixed a Post-it to ...
( Category: Authors March 2,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Anne C. Heller [Heller, Anne C.]

5 Security and Fame The Origins of Totalitarianism and the New York Circle, 1941–1961 Everything was possible and nothing was true. — HANNAH ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 19511 HANNAH ...
( Category: Political February 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jill Bialosky

WARNING BELL The bittersweet aftertaste lingered in the quiver in her smile, the flashes of anger that gave over to sadness when her boyfriend’s name came up. Again, the conundrum: ...
( Category: Authors February 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-21 | Author:Elie Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie]

EVERY MORNING Dr. Russel came to chat. He had made it a habit to end his daily rounds with me. Often he would remain an hour or more. He would ...
( Category: Jewish February 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:John le Carré

Oldrich Cerný should in no way be compared with either Bakatin or Primakov, both professed communists of their day. In 1993, four years after the Berlin Wall came down, Oldrich ...
( Category: Espionage February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Elizabeth Alexander

Seventeen May ends with my fiftieth birthday. I’d wanted to have a joint birthday party with Ficre, a hundredth-birthday party. In our New Haven neighborhood filled with old houses and ...
( Category: Authors February 24,2017 )