Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | | Author:Sid Holt

• • • I once mentioned to Obama a scene from The Godfather: Part III, in which Michael Corleone complains angrily about his failure to escape the grasp of organized ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:Sid Holt

New York Times Magazine FINALIST—REPORTING In the last five years the United States has deported hundreds of thousands undocumented aliens. Even at a time when immigration is the subject of ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Tod Davies

Then there’s the squash issue. It comes up every year. The zucchini/yellow squash population explosion, both in the garden and at the store. The stuff’s so fresh, and cheap, I ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 30,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Jean-Claude Izzo

GARLIC The first girl I ever kissed smelled of garlic. It was in a hut in Les Goudes, at that hour on a summer’s day when adults take an afternoon ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-22 | Author:Karl Marx [Marx, Karl]

* * * FOOTNOTES: [8] Arnold Ruge was the author of this article. [9] Marx in later years changed his views about MacCulloch and Ricardo. * * * MORALIZING CRITICISM ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

isochronal—equal in duration, taking same amount of time isomer—two molecules of same element but w/different arrangement of atoms isotropic—identical in all directions; invariant w/respect to direction; isotrope, isotropy jakes—latrine or ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Helen Keller

XIV. Dreams and Reality IT is astonishing to think how our real wide-awake life revolves around the shadowy unrealities of Dreamland. Despite all that we say about the inconsequence of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-18 | Author:George Berkeley [Berkeley, George]

The Third Dialogue PHILONOUS. Tell me, Hylas, what are the fruits of yesterday's meditation? Has it confirmed you in the same mind you were in at parting? or have you ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

"exactly" might seem an overstatement, and it might seem more correct to say that ideas APPROXIMATELY represent impressions. Such modifications of Hume's principle, however, do not affect the problem which ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

In the new creed which controls the government of Russia, while there is much that is very different from the traditional teaching of the West, there are some things that ...
( Category: Humor January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-15 | Author:Jean Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean Jacques]

M. de Besse, M. de Forcade, and others whose names I have forgotten, in short, well-dressed people of every description were seen there; except abbes and men of the long ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 24,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary -Louise Parker [Parker, Mary -Louise]

Dear Rafiki Yangu, How’d you get so happy? Maybe you could always get everyone to join you on the dance floor, even when there is no dance floor. Last Thanksgiving, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 22,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-25 | Author:Charles Bukowski

[To Marvin Malone] April 4, 1970 [ . . . ] my hope is that the Wormwood Review goes on as long as you do. I have watched the magazines ...
( Category: Poetry January 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Thomas Merton

Letter 47 September 15, 1963 Dear Father Louis: I received your letter of August 1st with the copy of the latter for Cintio [Vitier], which I sent to him. He ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership January 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:various

While thirteen-year-old Courtney dozed, Melinda stole quietly from the bed and put on her robe. She went out through the French doors onto her second floor terrace. Lighting a cigarette, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies January 21,2018 )