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epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Mitchell [Mitchell, Joseph]

The profile of Gould was printed in the issue of The New Yorker for December 12, 1942, under the title of ‘Professor Sea Gull.’ The day before this issue went ...
( Category: Authors June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Campbell, Lady Colin [Campbell, Lady Colin]

Putting the admiration of fans to one side, public figures are most convincing when they are not focused on their performance, nor on conveying any message except authenticity. When a ...
( Category: Rich & Famous June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Ben Sonnenberg

I hated myself for behaving like that. Mike and I drove to Montauban, to see the Ingres museum, and to Albí where on a rampart of the Bishop’s Palace I ...
( Category: Authors June 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-13 | Author:Vivian Gornick

Mama and Nettie quarreled, and I entered City College. In feeling memory these events carry equal weight. Both inaugurated open conflict, both drove a wedge between me and the unknowing ...
( Category: Authors June 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Lawrence N. Powell

They went directly to Natalia Piotrowska’s apartment at Lochowska 15 when they arrived in Praga that evening, grabbing a bite to eat. “Thank God, everything was all right with her,” ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Karen Dietrich

CHAPTER 16 Dogs Howling in the Dark of Night It’s springtime, and sixth grade is almost over. Soon I will leave the elementary school and enter junior high, where I’ll ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic June 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:K. Randall Ball

WHEN RICHARD NIXON RAN FOR PRESIDENT in 1968, he promised to restore American values. Like damned near every other asshole running for that office, he meant the opposite of what ...
( Category: History June 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Ann Radcliffe

CHAPTER XIII “Nor sea, nor shade, nor shield, nor rock, nor cave, Nor silent deserts, nor the sullen grave, Where flame-eyed Fury means to frown—can save.” The surgeon of the ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy June 6,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Yoshiko Uchida & Yoshiko Uchida [Uchida, Yoshiko]

Plate in hand, I stand in line, Losing my resolve To hide my tears. I see my mother In the aged woman who comes, And I yield to her My ...
( Category: Asian American Studies May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:Lauren Sandler [Sandler, Lauren]

13 SHERMAN AVENUE The Champs-Élysées was the model for the Grand Concourse, constructed at the apex of the City Beautiful movement and completed in 1909. Seeking space and amenities, upwardly ...
( Category: Poverty May 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-10 | Author:Sal Paolantonio

One important statistical note: With the loss, the Eagles dropped to the No. 2 seed in the NFC. The Vikings held the tiebreaker over Philadelphia. It was the first time ...
( Category: Football (American) April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Susan Davis

OPENING UP FOLKLORE In the United States, things were moving forward in the academic folklore field: Legman was astounded when Richard Dorson invited him to speak on erotic folk song ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic April 11,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Jean Naggar [Naggar, Jean]

After the end of the Second World War, we gathered in London every fall to celebrate the High Holidays with my mother’s family, staying at St. James’s Court in a ...
( Category: Authors April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Salant

CHAPTER 9. ALONE WITH THE BUSHMEN In the following weeks I became obsessed with retrieving my stolen poems. Whenever I was getting high with anybody who might have even heard ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic April 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Amy Wilentz

Walking through the rooms downstairs with Lynda Resnick is like taking a tour of pre-Revolutionary France. As Lynda wrote in her vanity essay, the house “is topped off on all ...
( Category: Local March 26,2020 )