Authors
epub | | 2010-01-04 | Author:Skármeta, Antonio [Skármeta, Antonio]

El momento crucial se produjo cuando sorpresivamente el diputado Labbé hizo su entrada al local, con un terno blanco como su sonrisa, y, avanzando en medio de las pullas de ...
( Category: Renaissance June 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Roberto Bolano [Bolano, Roberto]

CB: Women writers are constantly annoyed by this question, but I can’t help inflicting it on you—if only because after being asked it so many times, I regard it as ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Edmund White

Chapter 12 David and I became closer and closer, perhaps because we shared these Venetian adventures that would have struck our New York friends as slightly glamorous but decidedly irrelevant ...
( Category: Authors June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Richard Ford

My Mother, In Memory Edna Akin, 1928 My mother’s name was Edna Akin, and she was born in 1910, in the far northwest corner of Arkansas—Benton County—in a place the ...
( Category: Authors May 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-03 | Author:Rodrigo Fresán

MANY FÊTES, OR STUDY FOR A GROUP PORTRAIT WITH BROKEN DECALOGUES † “Have you read all these books?” she asks. † The biji is a genre of classic Chinese literature. ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-30 | Author:Leo Tolstoy

26 • DISCUSSIONS Volodya, lying with his feet up on the sofa and leaning his head on his arm, was reading a French novel when I paid my usual visit ...
( Category: Biographical May 19,2017 )
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 | 2017-04-03 | Author:Colum McCann

The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time. —LORRIE ...
( Category: Letters April 7,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lin Anderson

31 ‘No CCTV, no police station, no Wi-Fi, no mobile signal most of the time. How the fuck do you catch criminals?’ ‘We don’t have many to speak of,’ Tulloch ...
( Category: Murder March 23,2017 )
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 | 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, mobi |eng | | Author:Paul Auster

4.4 In his three years as a high school student in the New Jersey suburbs, the sixteen-, seventeen-, and eighteen-year-old Ferguson started twenty-seven short stories, finished nineteen of them, and ...
( Category: Literary February 25,2017 )
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 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts After the text of my letter to Jane Alexander, then chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, had been fragmentarily ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )