Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:George Saunders

THE ALL-AMERICAN MEXICAN CITY, OR THE ALL-MEXICAN AMERICAN CITY, WHATEVER Maybe you’ve heard some variant of the following: I have nothing against [Mexicans/immigrants/these people], but nowadays you go to [NAME ...
( Category: Humor August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Bob Shacochis

Huevos Fritos This is a small story, inhumanly cruel, and it ends with a terrible howl. It takes place in a dark forest on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Walter Cronkite, IV [Cronkite IV, Walter]

CRONKITE MARKED HIS second lonely Christmas without his wife in his December 25, 1943, letter. V-MAIL Saturday, Christmas December 25, 1943 My darlingest wife: This is a lonely day, brightened ...
( Category: Military August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Tim Robinson [Tim Robinson]

THE PERSON The Synges came to Ireland in the seventeenth century from England, produced a succession of bishops for the Protestant Church of Ireland, and married land. J.M. Synge’s father, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Tim Robinson [Tim Robinson]

How did that accord with my observations? I was enjoying the baroque theatricality of the side-chapels in Saint-Sauveur for its own sake, the gleams of gold in morbid gloom, the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Walker, Alice [Walker, Alice]

Standing near my house, in a forest that was once ravaged by poorly paid loggers intent on making a profit for rich thieves who do not respect the planet, and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-11 | Author:Rooney, Andy [Rooney, Andrew A.]

A Nation of Exiles Considering all the talk about illegal immigrants, not many of us know much about immigration. I got through high school without being certain of the difference ...
( Category: Humor August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-09-04 | Author:Ritchie, Charles [Ritchie, Charles]

1 German parliament. 1 Pearson was then Secretary of State for External Affairs. 1 Frank Giles, British journalist, since Editor of the Sunday Times, and his wife, Lady Katherine Giles. ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 17,2017 )
azw |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Clarkson, Jeremy [Clarkson, Jeremy]

Down periscope! I’ve found an airtight way to quit smoking Over the years, I’ve done pretty well all the 100 things you’re supposed to do before you die. I’ve vomited ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-17 | Author:Matt Weiland

( Category: Travel Writing August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Fuller, Matthew;

Ambiguity and Paradox In his book How Mathematicians Think, William Byers differentiates the formalized, algorithmic means of doing maths from the moment of discovery. This is done in a somewhat ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-29 | Author:Baldesar Castiglione [Castiglione, Baldesar]

‘This kind of joke is played very often; but more amusing still are jokes that are frightening to begin with but have a happy ending, for then the victim too ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Eggers

When I came to, everyone was gone, except for Mattie and Nora. Get up, Mattie said. He had the toe of his boot under my skull. Nora was still on ...
( Category: United States August 16,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Linda Goodman [Goodman, Linda]

Famous Libra Personalities Julie Andrews Rita Hayworth Luciano Pavarotti David Ben-Gurion Timothy Leary Vladimir Putin Jimmy Carter John Lennon Mario Puzo Miguel de Cervantes Mickey Mantle Eleanor Roosevelt Michael Douglas ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:David Shields [Shields, David]

CALEB: I was disappointed when you refused to offer wholehearted praise of my rape novel. DAVID: That was an awkward situation. CALEB: How could it have hurt you? You wrote, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 16,2017 )