Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Isherwood

September 26. All right, now we’re going to get this record restarted, despite all internal opposition. Jonathan Fryer, my biographer-to-be, left Los Angeles this morning. A big pudgy boy, slightly ...
( Category: Authors August 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Larry Doyle

Meaningful consultation. While we acknowledge Management’s right to rape our material, pervert its meaning, and cravenly dilute it for commercial use, we demand to participate in this process. We would ...
( Category: Humor August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-02 | Author:Martha O. Bolton & Phil Callaway [Bolton, Martha O. & Callaway, Phil]

The Best News Yet Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. Charles Dickens I (Phil) ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:Michael Dirda

Six LIVING IN THE WORLD I assure you, doctor, it is a relatively simple matter for a weathered charlatan like myself to keep up interest in so small a carnival ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Roth

Isaac Bashevis Singer [1976] Some months after I first read Bruno Schulz and decided to include him in the Penguin series "Writers from the Other Europe," I learned that when ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Powers, J. F. [Powers, J. F.]

Egan was finally released from exile in Beardsley and assigned to St. Mary’s Hospital in Minneapolis as chaplain. Jim, unable to resist the tawdry spectacle of the summer’s political conventions, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:J. F. Powers [Powers, J. F.]

Egan was finally released from exile in Beardsley and assigned to St. Mary’s Hospital in Minneapolis as chaplain. Jim, unable to resist the tawdry spectacle of the summer’s political conventions, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-04 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

A SECRET VICE Some of you may have heard that there was, a year or more ago, a Congress in Oxford, an Esperanto Congress; or you may not have heard. ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-09 | Author:Italo Calvino

Political Autobiography of a Young Man I. A Childhood under Fascism 1) I was sixteen in 1939, so in replying to the question about the ideas I grew up with ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2003-11-10 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest & Hemingway, Sean [Hemingway, Ernest]

Guerrilla Warfare (from For Whom the Bell Tolls) Agustín and Primitivo came up with the brush and Robert Jordan built a good blind for the automatic rifle, a blind that ...
( Category: Literary August 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Harlan Ellison [Ellison, Harlan]

"Why anyone should have wanted to spend twenty million dollars on a remake of The Wages of Fear, do it badly, and give it a misleading title is anybody's guess. ...
( Category: Movies August 27,2017 )
epub | | 2009-11-08 | Author:Vargas Llosa, Mario [Vargas Llosa, Mario]

En esta civilización de los deseos en libertad, que parece despuntar, Meursault también hubiera sido castigado por haber matado a un hombre. Pero nadie lo hubiera enviado a la guillotina, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 1991-08-26 | Author:Robert Fulghum [Fulghum, Robert]

So we had enough—Grady’s friends. Enough of his being stuck straddling the present and the future. Enough of his moaning and groaning. It was casting a pall over poker games. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-11-01 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

GALLOWAY First publication: Bantam Books paperback, July 1970 Narrator: Flagan Sackett Time Period: c. 1875–1879 Flagan and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. It was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

THE ARTIST AT WORK Exile and the Kingdom Take me up and cast me forth into the sea ... for I know that for my sake this great tempest is ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 26,2017 )