Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Aaron Gilbreath

“Uch,” Abby said. “Gross.” She stepped into our bathroom as I stood in front of the sink, getting ready for work. “What?” “What do you mean what?” she said. “Using ...
( Category: United States September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Diana Athill

10 DECEMBER 1999 Darling Edward, I’m just coming to the end of a tedious week. Barbara jaunted off to France with our Norfolk neighbours, and Barry went to stay with ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 1962-09-24 | Author:Diana Athill

Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse— Nothing refuse ’Tis a brave master; Let it have scope: Follow it ...
( Category: Memoirs September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 1983-12-31 | Author:John Barth [Barth, John]

“Three and a third years ago, when King Shahryar was raping a virgin every night and killing her in the morning, and the people were praying that Allah would dump ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-24 | Author:McGinnis, Kerry

FIFTEEN There was winter rain that year of 1959. It fell ahead of us so that we came onto it after weeks of scrub-cutting and hauling weakened sheep back onto ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:David Mamet [Mamet, David]

THE GOSHAWK That evening I go to the theater. And, after the theater I am alone. In my hotel I take off my suit jacket and hang it neatly in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stanley Elkin

PIECES OF SOAP This would have been after the MS was first diagnosed but before the chair glide was put in, before, in fact, anything very important was wrong with ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 24,2017 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-25 | Author:Sarah Kendzior [Kendzior, Sarah]

PART IV: HIGHER EDUCATION The closing of American academia It is 2011 and I'm sitting in the Palais des Congres in Montreal, watching anthropologists talk about structural inequality. The American ...
( Category: Economics September 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Harrison

The Last Good Country It all began quite accidentally. I wanted to go farther north than my northern Michigan home for a few days of rest from nothing, a condition ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2002-04-09 | Author:Vidal, Gore [Vidal, Gore]

When McVeigh, on appeal in a Colorado prison, read what I had written he wrote me a letter and ... But I’ve left you behind in the Ravello garden of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 23,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Heinrich Heine

DIFFERING CONCEPTIONS OF HISTORY THE book of history is interpreted in diverse ways. Two mutually opposed views are particularly notable. Some people see in all earthly things only a dreary ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 22,2017 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

It is this third learning that is the most difficult, the most dangerous, and the most powerful — and the one Pinocchio will never reach. Pressures of all sorts—the temptations ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Atwan

One of the people at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited was an optical engineer named Gary Starkweather. He is a solid and irrepressibly cheerful man, with large, practical hands ...
( Category: United States September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Wojnarowicz

February 28, 1980 He had a tough face, square-jawed and barely shaven, tight-cropped hair, wiry and black, intensely handsome like some face seen in old boxer photos of Rocky Marciano, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Frances Burney

( Category: World Literature September 22,2017 )