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The Subway Chronicles by Jacquelin Cangro
epub |eng | | Author:Jacquelin Cangro

I became a regular customer in 1978. That year I began commuting most of the length of Manhattan, a one-hour ride from Brooklyn to 135th Street, to attend Music and ...
( Category: United States June 16,2018 )
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way by Charles Bukowski
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Bukowski

Politics and Love Paul Caval was dubbed by his enemies as “the playboy butcher.” He had overthrown that South American nation with, as he said, “Seven bullets. One which missed ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 13,2018 )
Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others by Robert Gottlieb
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Gottlieb

Lenny! LEONARD BERNSTEIN IN 1966, Leonard Bernstein conducted The Rite of Spring and Sibelius’s Symphony no. 5 with the London Symphony Orchestra, and just recently that BBC event has been ...
( Category: United States June 13,2018 )
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine by Tom Wolfe
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Tom Wolfe

In 1974, in one of his last speeches, the late Lionel Trilling, who was probably the most prestigious literary critic in the country and had been a professor of English ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 13,2018 )
Tonight I'm Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
epub |eng | | Author:Chelsea Hodson

Swollen and Victorious Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go. —MARY RUEFLE, “The Cart” 1. The Heart Line Wanna see my hand? a woman ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 11,2018 )
The Journal of Urgent Writing by Nicola Legat
epub |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Nicola Legat [Nicola Legat]

Inherently political action by the secret state was not confined to ‘countering’ communist activity during the early cold war. Another hardy perennial in the surveillance world was the anti-apartheid movement. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 11,2018 )
Journeying by Claudio Magris
epub |eng | 2018-06-09 | Author:Claudio Magris

ISTRIAN SPRING In Pula, two hundred yards from the Roman Arena, Guido Miglia shows me his aunt Catineta’s house, where at Easter he would go to eat pinza, the delicate ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 9,2018 )
Rules for Others to Live By by Richard Greenberg
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Richard Greenberg

English Writers I love Agatha Christie’s novels, though I read somewhere that the versions I get have been expurgated of their anti-Semitic content. Even so, an occasional bit of Jew-hating ...
( Category: Humor June 2,2018 )
If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free? by Tom Wayman
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Tom Wayman

•Postmodern writing is sophisticated and is an artistic reflection of how language functions. Anyone who has taught postsecondary introductory creative writing has encountered students who do not seek to improve ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 29,2018 )
Going For Infinity by Anderson Poul
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anderson, Poul [Anderson, Poul]

X There were other series. They were never planned beforehand, it was just that one story would suggest more, exploring the theme further. The Maurai chronicles began with a novelette, ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 23,2018 )
50 Essays by Samuel Cohen
epub |eng | 2016-11-04 | Author:Samuel Cohen [Cohen, Samuel]

The first time I went to Washington, D.C., was on the edge of the summer when I was supposed to stop being a child. At least that’s what they said ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 22,2018 )
The Sixties by Christopher Isherwood
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Isherwood

December 19. Another beautiful though slightly chilly day. Yesterday we went on the beach and something happened to my hip, I must have pinched a nerve or something. It is ...
( Category: Philosophy May 22,2018 )
The Habit of Being by Flannery O'Connor
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Flannery O'Connor

To John Hawkes 27 July 58 I haven’t written and thanked you for the books because I have been reading them. I braved the Faulkner, without tragic results. Probably the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature May 21,2018 )
Pleasing Myself by Frank Kermode
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Frank Kermode

This letter is profoundly and deliberately offensive. Of course Russell probably knew that Lawrence, particularly in the war years, was prone to writing intemperate letters, but this must still have ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 21,2018 )
Music, Art, and Metaphysics by Levinson Jerrold;
epub |eng | 2011-05-21 | Author:Levinson, Jerrold;

IX It’s useful here to bring in a point about evaluation. It seems plain that one can’t evaluate works of music unless one hears them properly. One can’t evaluate the ...
( Category: Philosophy May 21,2018 )

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