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J. D. Salinger A Life
mobi | | | Author:Kenneth Slawenski

( Category: Authors January 6,2015 )
Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:John Garth

PART THREE The Lonely Isle ELEVEN Castles in the air The fever persisted. Tolkien wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, his commanding officer, explaining his whereabouts, but All Hallows went by and ...
( Category: World War I January 4,2015 )
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J. M.]

ELEVEN YEARS AGO, WHEN he was still a child in a family trying its best to be normal, his parents used to go to Saturday night dances. He would watch ...
( Category: Authors December 29,2014 )
Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Jennifer Clement [Clement, Jennifer]

Things were really bad. We went days without speaking. I secretly started doing heroin because I couldn’t deal with coming down off five days of coke. Jean started staying out ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
The Genius and the Goddess by Jeffrey Meyers
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Meyers [Jeffrey Meyers]

Twelve Heading for Disaster (1957–1960) I While married to Mary and before he met Marilyn, Miller had led a structured and productive life. For Marilyn's sake he gave up a ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress by Christina McKenna
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Christina McKenna

LEAVING THE SUNLIGHT FOR THE GLOOM Arthur, the oldest McKenna brother, I never got to know; he died before I was old enough to form an opinion of him, but ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:John Berryman

28 Snow Line It was wet & white & swift and where I am we don’t know. It was dark and then it isn’t. I wish the barker would come. ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
A Writer's Life by Gay Talese
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Gay Talese [Talese, Gay]

19 AS I DROVE THROUGH DOWNTOWN SELMA ONTO HIGHWAY 80 toward the Holiday Inn, which was where I and most of the out-of-town media who were here for the silver ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
A Life in Letters by Fitzgerald F. Scott
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

TO: Maxwell Perkins TLS, 3 pp. Princeton University 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15, 1935. Dear Max: You don’t say anything about “Taps” so I gather it hasn’t caught ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Nicholas Shakespeare [Shakespeare, Nicholas]

XXIII I Don’t Know What You’ll Make of It I recall that on the 31st August last you telephoned to say that you were now writing books and that your ...
( Category: European December 27,2014 )
My Guru & His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Isherwood, Christopher]

Twelve September 25, 1944. Swami, George, Sarada, and I drove to Montecito this morning. At present, there is nothing to report. It’s just another move. I have a dear little ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir by Emmanuel Carrère
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Emmanuel Carrère [Carrère, Emmanuel]

16 One thing makes Étienne laugh when he talks about meeting Juliette: what went through his mind the first time he saw her. Someone knocked on his door; he said, ...
( Category: French December 27,2014 )
All in One Basket by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire [Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire]

The Organ Recital When two or three old people are gathered together in the name of lunch, you can be sure of the subject of conversation to start the ball ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
Unto the Sons by Gay Talese
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Gay Talese [Talese, Gay]

25. The surprise attack that killed Muffo, Branca, and two other soldiers in Antonio’s unit and injured half a dozen more was one of many setbacks suffered by Italian reconnaissance ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn
epub |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Michael Frayn [Michael Frayn]

And that’s the end of my mother. My sister and I aren’t allowed to go to the funeral, I suppose for fear that it would upset us. What do we ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )

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