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Treasury of Joy & Inspiration by Editors of Reader's Digest
epub |eng | | Author:Editors of Reader's Digest

Quotable Quotes If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down. Quoted by Kevin Spacey • • • Joy is one of the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 16,2017 )
Why I Don't Write Children's Literature by Gary Soto
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Soto

NAPS I asked my wife, “Are you leaving soon?” She was off to a midweek meeting at church, and I wanted her out of the house, for I had the ...
( Category: Essays August 16,2017 )
Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan
epub |eng | 1999-08-16 | Author:Fred Kaplan

In spring 1957 Sam Zimbalist, appalled at the awful script he had for the remake of Ben-Hur, sounded out his young writing star about doing a thorough revision. Drastic changes ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Short Story Collection by Terry Pratchett
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-23 | Author:Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax was gathering Herbs when they came up the track. Everyday herbs of sickroom and kitchen are known as simples. Granny's Herbs weren't simples. They were complicateds or they ...
( Category: Short Story Collections August 15,2017 )
Turn Right at the Spotted Dog by Jilly Cooper
epub |eng | | Author:Jilly Cooper [Jilly Cooper]

Lord Hailsham THIS PIECE WAS written in May 1985, when there was some speculation that Lord Hailsham should be replaced as Lord Chancellor by a younger man. Happily he survived ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
Get a Life by Vivienne Westwood
epub |eng | | Author:Vivienne Westwood

SEPTEMBER 2013 MON 2 SEPT BEN’S GOT ART My son Ben writes the World’s End shop website and he was explaining the origins of a man’s suit – one of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
World Within The Word by William H. Gass
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:William H. Gass

It was these small movements of which Valéry was such a master, if we think of them as the movements of a mind which has practiced passage to the point ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Eliot Weinberger

One of the classics says that a horse’s ribs should be slender and numerous. An ordinary horse has only ten ribs. One with more than this is a noble steed. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
India's Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra & Mridula Mukherjee & Aditya Mukherjee & K N Panikkar & Sucheta Mahajan
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Bipan Chandra & Mridula Mukherjee & Aditya Mukherjee & K N Panikkar & Sucheta Mahajan

24 The Rise of the Left-Wing A powerful left-wing group developed in India in the late 1920s and 1930s contributing to the radicalization of the national movement. The goal of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car by William Kennedy
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:William Kennedy

* When I wrote this review for the National Observer it carried the headline “All of Life, Sense and Nonsense/ Fills an Argentine’s Daring Fable.” The only biographical information I ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
Letters to my Grandchildren by David Suzuki
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:David Suzuki

mammals—5,487 birds—9,990 reptiles—8,734 amphibians—6,515 fish—31,153 In contrast, the number of identified insect species is more than a million.3 Scouring the literature, Wilson calculated that about 1.5 million species have actually ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 15,2017 )
Bukowski in a Sundress by Kim Addonizio
epub |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Kim Addonizio

Don’t Worry “I GOT YOU a couple of presents,” Margot said as we stood on the sidewalk outside the blues club in San Francisco, amid a swirl of theatergoers and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
On Tennis by David Foster Wallace
epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:David Foster Wallace

you can see them, Them, coming, an enormous serpentine mass, the crowd, still at 1615h. coming, what looks from this distance like everybody in New York City who hasn’t retreated ...
( Category: Racket Sports August 15,2017 )
Microcosms (Panther) by Magris Claudio
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Magris, Claudio [Magris, Claudio]

The Piedmontese made Italy. But nature – wrote Cesare Balbo in 1855, six years before unification – made them “as non-Italian as was possible” and they have found themselves “wishing, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 14,2017 )
The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn
epub |eng | | Author:Martha Gellhorn

Eichmann and the Private Conscience THE ATLANTIC, February 1962 In the bulletproof glass dock, shaped like the prow of a ship, sits a little man with a thin neck, high ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 14,2017 )

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