epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Rodger Kamenetz [Kamenetz, Rodger]

In Dov Ber, feelings arrive as messengers; in Kafka the messenger never quite arrives. Instead there’s struggle and exhaustion and no end of anticipation. One scholar of the parable reads ...

azw3 |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN TURNING FIFTY 1929–1931 Einstein’s house in Caputh near Berlin Caputh Einstein wanted some solitude for his fiftieth birthday, a refuge from publicity. So in March 1929 he fled ...

epub |eng | 1988-08-14 | Author:Edward Abbey

Although ours is a brief voyage both in time and space—six days, ninety miles—the journey settles easily, quickly into a flow as unhurried and untroubled as that of the river. ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Scott Donaldson

The fifth paragraph is concerned with their parting in Italy and the understanding they reached at that time. They “agreed he should go home,” and she “would not come until ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Alan Cross [Cross, Alan]

Fast Facts When Bowie was producing Transformer for Lou Reed, Bowie hired his first music teacher, Ronnie Ross, to play the saxophone part in “Walk on the Wild Side.” In ...

epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Peter Benjaminson [Benjaminson, Peter]

Lost Supreme_8 page insert 11/19/07 4:53 PM Page 1 The Supremes: Diane Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson. Roger Williams Lost Supreme_8 page insert 11/19/07 4:53 PM Page 2 The ...

epub |eng | 1999-05-02 | Author:Ted Conover [Conover, Ted]

UTILITY 1 Occasionally from a wallpost you would see a decrepit Sing Sing van stop somewhere on the road encircling the prison, and out would pile one officer with a ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Albert "Prodigy" Johnson [Johnson, Albert "Prodigy"]

“On the rec!” The loud, obnoxious, military-style shout from the CO abruptly woke me from my sleep. He was letting the whole dorm know it was time for recreation. Pulling ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Jesse Jarnow [JARNOW, JESSE]

Members of the Weavers didn’t often turn up at the Sunday jam sessions in Washington Square Park, but their presence was undeniable. For a few years when they lived nearby, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Bobby Womack & Robert Ashton [Bobby Womack and Robert Ashton]

epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Bennett Cerf [Cerf, Bennett]

One of my close friends was Harold Ross, the founder of The New Yorker; he was, I think, the greatest magazine editor we’ve ever had in this country. He was ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Kim Chernin [Chernin, Kim]

Three ROOT AND BRANCH Stories require a listener who can suspend disbelief long enough to let the tale emerge. Once under way, the story will take care of itself, gather ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Ray Charbonneau

Pack sunscreen. Don’t make fun of someone who wears a white, long sleeved wicking shirt on a sunny day when you’re wearing a black singlet with no sunscreen. My white ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Jackson R. Bryer [Bryer, Jackson R.]

BREATH OF THE CAVE Back in his apartment after the bridal dinner, Anthony snapped out his lights and, feeling impersonal and fragile as a piece of china waiting on a ...

mobi |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:Luís de Camões

One evening past, another evening clos'd, The regent still brave Gama's suit oppos'd; The Lusian chief his guarded guest detain'd, With arts on arts, and vows of friendship feign'd. His ...