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Partly Cloudy Patriot, The by Vowell Sarah
mobi |eng | 2002-09-05 | Author:Vowell, Sarah [Vowell, Sarah]

The colossal head of Bush—President Bush—delivers his Inaugural Address on the JumboTron. It is not terrible. I find myself begrudgingly agreeing with most of it, though it will be weeks ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 12,2017 )
Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

* * * XXVIII A FOOTNOTE ON THE DUEL OF SEX If I were a woman I should want to be a blonde, with golden, silky hair, pink cheeks and ...
( Category: Humor October 11,2017 )
Prejudices, First Series by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

2 A Stranger on Parnassus The case of Hamlin Garland belongs to pathos in the grand manner, as you will discover on reading his autobiography, “A Son of the Middle ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2017 )
Prejudices, Third Series by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

I do not forget, of course, that there is a borderland in which it is hard to say, of this or that composition, whether it is prose or poetry. Lincoln's ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2017 )
Prejudices, Second Series by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

* * * III. THE SAHARA OF THE BOZART Alas, for the South! Her books have grown fewer— She never was much given to literature. In the lamented J. Gordon ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2017 )
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ullman Ellen
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Ullman, Ellen [Ullman, Ellen]

Is Sadie the Cat a Trick? 2003 Photograph by Elliot Ross When I returned from Boston, after talking with Rodney Brooks, I bought a robotic cat. It wasn’t very advanced, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 11,2017 )
Essays and Lectures by ESSAYS & LECTURES
azw | | | Author:ESSAYS & LECTURES

* * * HOUSE DECORATION * * * IN my last lecture I gave you something of the history of Art in England. I sought to trace the influence of ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 9,2017 )
Collected French Translations: Prose by Ashbery John
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Ashbery, John [Ashbery, John]

Hebdomeros: With Monsieur Dudron’s Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings (Cambridge, Mass.: Exact Change, 1992). MONSIEUR DUDRON’S ADVENTURE Around two in the afternoon on April 17, 1939, M. Dudron, comfortably ensconced ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 9,2017 )
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Douglas Coupland

Church bells were the Internet of the 1500s, but churches didn’t play them twenty-four hours a day. Back then they knew that as a species we’re not cut out for ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 8,2017 )
With charity toward none : a fond look at misanthropy by King Florence
epub |eng | 1993-10-08 | Author:King, Florence

WITH CHARITY TOWARD NONE My salute shall sweep all the stars away From the blue threshold. One thing without stain, Unspotted from the world, in spite of doom Mine own ...
( Category: Humor October 8,2017 )
Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 by Hunter S. Thompson
epub |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

TO PAUL SEMONIN: After spending ten days with William Kennedy in Puerto Rico, Thompson landed in Aruba, about which he wrote a story for the National Observer. He spent nearly ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 8,2017 )
The Collected George Orwell by George Orwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

3 When the miner comes up from the pit his face is so pale that it is noticeable even through the mask of coal dust. This is due to the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 8,2017 )
Generation of swine : tales of shame and degradation in the '80s by Thompson Hunter S
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S [Thompson, Hunter S]

HST: Will network people be hired away for local stations? ET: The local stations are getting more and more into network news operations and that is a major problem faced ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 8,2017 )
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
epub |eng | 1964-12-31 | Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]

CARS AND BRAVERY! THE MOUNTAIN-STILL OPERATORS HAD been running white liquor with hopped-up automobiles all during the thirties. But it was during the war that the business was so hot ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 8,2017 )
Not that it Matters by A. A. Milne
mobi |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:A. A. Milne

By the Sea It is very pleasant in August to recline in Fleet Street, or wherever stern business keeps one, and to think of the sea. I do not envy ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 8,2017 )

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