Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Rodger Streitmatter

ACHIEVING GREATNESS Copland experienced a string of major successes beginning in 1942 when the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra asked him to write a short piece for brass and ...
( Category: Women in History April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Chris Cheng [Cheng, Chris]

This concludes the end of the pistol section of this book. Shooting a pistol well may look easy on TV or video games, but let me tell you, it is ...
( Category: Music April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Ryan Van Meter

“Cold cuts will take the paint off a car, if the sun is hot enough.” I’ve heard this somewhere, and just knowing it makes me sound as if I am ...
( Category: Essays April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Carter

The King told Blunt that when he saw a portrait he never knew if the name on the bottom was the artist or the sitter, or so Blunt reported to ...
( Category: Political April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scott Stabile [Stabile, Scott]

About two years before his death, while I was living in Brooklyn with my partner, Kevin and I had a long conversation over the phone. He talked about a fight ...
( Category: Love & Loss April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Carl Rollyson

17 RECOVERY 1976–77 In the spring of 1976, Sigrid Nunez, a twenty-five-year-old writer and Columbia University MFA, went to work for Susan Sontag. During Sontag’s illness, correspondence had piled up, ...
( Category: United States April 4,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Rita Mae Brown

My grandparents, Reuben and Carrie Brown, on their wedding day in 1901. Jack Young, my natural mother’s father, in 1940. A local power in the Republican Party, he was “the ...
( Category: Authors April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Shawn Hitchins [Hitchins, Shawn]

( Category: Arts & Literature April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Andre Gide & Oscar Wilde [Gide, Andre]

Oscar Wilde died in a shabby little hotel in the Rue des Beaux Arts. Seven persons followed the hearse, and even they did not all accompany the funeral procession to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Ellen DeGeneres [DeGeneres, Ellen]

( Category: Architecture March 26,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Derek Jarman

Sunday 17 This morning the streets are empty, except for the derelicts and piles of rubbish. One man huddled in the doorway asked ‘You know what day it is?’ ‘Sunday.’ ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers March 25,2018 )
azw |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:Leah Lax [Lax, Leah]

THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE that Levi used to whisk off to the back room is now a steady source of the outside world. Each day, I look for news in the ...
( Category: Hasidism March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-23 | Author:Chris Power [Chris Power]

RUN On the long drive from Gothenburg to the farmhouse, Gunilla told David it was haunted. The owner had said so when she called to confirm the booking. ‘He didn’t ...
( Category: Short Stories March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Rosalind Rosenberg

Adding “Sex” to Title VII Murray faced not just divided women’s and civil rights movements but also a problem inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause covered only ...
( Category: Women March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Rick Elice

Last summer, we were lucky enough to get to work together again on a little musical I wrote with Michael Patrick Walker called Dog and Pony. Roger directed the world ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 16,2018 )