Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 1995-11-02 | Author:David B. Feinberg [Feinberg, David B.]

6. Anxiety as Fuel No matter what I do or think, AIDS remains the subtext, the subliminal humming of that perpetual-motion machine with six rechargeable Energizer batteries hidden in the ...
( Category: LGBT December 1,2017 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Maggie Nelson

(2003–2006) Credits THE PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS Rebecca Baron, Joshua Beckman, Brian Blanchfield (aka Student Blue), Mike Bryant, Lap-Chi Chu, Christina Crosby, Cort Day, Annie Dillard, Doug Goodwin, George Hambrecht, Christian Hawkey, ...
( Category: Memoirs December 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-10 | Author:Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein

NOTE Unpublished, dated October 10, 2005. 6. WHAT AN UGLY CHILD SHE IS France for me—long, long before Paris—was Yonville-l’Abbaye, eight leagues from Rouen. I remember crouching inside that place-name ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-13 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

Understanding that the world is engaged in ever increasing spirals of violence and suffering, I asked Spirit to give us a peace chant and mudra. I will teach it to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-10 | Author:Dagoberto Gilb & César A. Martínez [Gilb, Dagoberto & Martínez, César A.]

( Category: United States November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Barry Gifford [Gifford, Barry]

NIGHT AND DAY AT THE IGUANA HOTEL “HOW DO YOU GET SIXTEEN HAITIANS into a Dixie cup?” said Sparky. “How?” asked Lula. “Tell ’em it floats.” Sailor, Lula, Sparky and ...
( Category: United States November 29,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

ADDRESS TO GRADUATING CLASS AT BENNINGTON COLLEGE, 1970 I hope you will be very happy as members of the educated class in America. I myself have been rejected again and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-09-15 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

How to Buy Gadgets The aircraft flies majestically over boundless prairies, immense deserts. This American continent can still offer moments of solitary, almost tactile encounter with nature. I am forgetting ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:R. F. Christian & Leo Tolstoy [Christian, R. F. & Tolstoy, Leo]

1863 3 January, Moscow Only today has my toothache begun to ease up a bit. She talks about jealousy: one must respect people – I’m sure that it’s just talk, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-10-15 | Author:Isaac Kramnick [Kramnick, Isaac]

ON THEATER AND MORALS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU D‘Alembert wrote the entry for “Geneva” in the Encylopédie, in which he criticized its prohibition of theater. Rousseau replied in 1758 in his Epistle ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-02-01 | Author:Joy Williams [Williams, Joy]

was on a Swan Hellenic educational cruise, #447, which had as its subject the Byzantine Empire, and I was frightfully lacking in comprehension of just about everything. On the second ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Ian Frazier [Frazier, Ian]

What actually happened was I got hardly any sleep at my motel, because someone kept slamming a door right next to my room all night, and then I got up ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Donald Richie [Richie, Donald]

Japan’s Avant-garde Theater ANY AVANT-GARDE art is predicated upon its newness and its novelty. When these qualities become sufficiently absorbed the art ceases to be avant-garde and becomes establishment. This ...
( Category: Asia November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-11-27 | Author:Nancy Milford [Milford, Nancy]

CHAPTER 21 That February, after attending a concert of Deems Taylor’s “Portrait of a Lady,” Millay wrote a letter to the anonymous music editor of the New York World, who ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Joseph Mitchell & David Remnick

I Blame It All on Mamma MRS. COPENHAGEN CALHOUN, who lives on a riverbank watermelon farm in Black Ankle County, about a mile from the town of Stonewall, is the ...
( Category: Humor November 28,2017 )