Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]
The nine-year-old heroine of “The Fat Man” is not kissed but killed, and expresses her power by haunting the murderer: “It is her small light step that has followed close ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Jonathan Ames [Ames, Jonathan]
November 9 In the morning, I did something unusual: I made an appointment at this place called Koan Float, where I could go into a sensory deprivation tank. I’d always ...
( Category:
Humor
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Helen Vendler [Vendler, Helen]
Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon. Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of ...
( Category:
Poetry
November 28,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]
CHARLIE’S ANGEL IF YOU CAN IMAGINE being force-fed a whole box of mint chocolate creams, you can catch a whiff of the intoxicating atmosphere that is England today. There is ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-05-15 | Author:Andrei Codrescu [Codrescu, Andrei]
How My Secret Twin Saved Me OVER THE YEARS I’ve had my brushes with Hollywood. Someone making a vampire picture once called me to quiz me about the density of ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 28,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Bill Moyers [Moyers, Bill]
II Two years ago, in a report entitled “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality,” the American Political Science Association concluded that progress toward realizing American ideals of democracy ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
November 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Vincent van Gogh
439 | Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884 | To Anthon van Rappard (D) My dear friend Rappard, Thank you for your letter — which made me happy. ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:John Updike
The nine-year-old heroine of “The Fat Man” is not kissed but killed, and expresses her power by haunting the murderer: “It is her small light step that has followed close ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
November 28,2017 )
epub | | 2009-01-01 | Author:Anthelme Jean Brillat-Savarin [Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme Jean]
1. The Professor is said, by at least one of the men who wrote introductions to him (Charles Monselet), to have had a little dog as his constant companion in ...
( Category:
Cooking Education & Reference
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Jonathan Swift [Swift, Jonathan]
Their gods were the four winds, whom they worshipped as the spirits that pervade and enliven the universe, and as those from whom alone all inspiration can properly be said ...
( Category:
Classics
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Burroughs, William S. [Burroughs, William S.]
Bill WSB [London] to Claude Pelieu* [New York] Nov. 10, 1966 8 Duke Street St James London S.W.1 England Dear Claude Pelieu I have been ill, went to Tangier to ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Burroughs, William S [Burroughs, William S]
To Allen Ginsberg Dec. 30, 1954 [Tangier] Dear Allen, Enclose first chapter of current novel. Reading it over I get an impression of something very sinister just under the surface, ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clive James
POSTSCRIPT My reference to the temptation Huckleberry Finn might offer to the politically correct text-cleansers was made at a time when it still looked possible that gentle ridicule would stave ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]
This is the language of critical self-deception, fine judgement suppressed in the name of a broader cause. What does it mean to dance with all the grace you are ever ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]
New Yorker, 15 September, 1997 POSTSCRIPT TO A REQUIEM Complete with all its stylistic arabesques, the preceding obituary is reproduced in the form it took when it was first published ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 26,2017 )
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