Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2008-04-02 | Author:Sloane Crosley [Crosley, Sloane]

SIGN LANGUAGE FOR INFIDELS I don’t remember exactly how long I was in that tiny, overheated room. My presence there began on a road not so much paved with good ...
( Category: Humor June 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

( Category: Politics & Government June 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Vivian Gornick [Gornick, Vivian]

5 At the University: Little Murders of the Soul The other night at a party in New York I ran into Charlotte; next day in a restaurant I saw Daniel; ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Joan Didion [Didion, Joan]

Eternal love, romance, fun. The Big Apple. These are relatively rare expectations in the arrangements of consenting adults, although not in those of children, and it wrenches the heart to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1986-04-01 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

Too Much Monkey Business: The New Evangelical Right 'I call it Mickey Mouse mentality,' proclaimed Judge Braswell Deen, referring to the theories of Charles Darwin: 'monkey mythology methodology monopoly, mysterious ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Henry James [Henry James]

NOTE 1. D for Daniel (Curtis). XIV To Ariana Curtis July 7th [1890] (Dartmouth Ms.) Florence, Villino Rubio 1 Via Palestro Dear Mrs. Curtis I have delayed too long to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Daniel Moynihan

Journal entry about the arrest of an Indian naval officer accused of spying for the United States, leading Moynihan to conclude that the U.S. should simply pull all C.I.A. operations ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson [Emerson,Ralph Waldo]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ● ● ● Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say ‘I think,’ ‘I am,’ but quotes some saint or ...
( Category: Philosophy June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Liz Williams [Williams, Liz]

The letter that started the diet industry William Banting was an undertaker and coffin maker. In 1863, he wrote a booklet called Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public, which ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge [Coleridge, Samuel Taylor]

CHAPTER XVIII Language of metrical composition, why and wherein essentially different from that of prose—Origin and elements of metre—Its necessary consequences, and the conditions thereby imposed on the metrical writer ...
( Category: Poetry June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Jay McInerney [McInerney, Jay]

JILTED LOVER Auberon Waugh Novelist Evelyn Waugh, in his fiction and correspondence, provided us with some fine observations on wine and its enjoyment, but perhaps his greatest service to the ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine June 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Katie Roiphe

The Ambiguities of Austen Back in 1905, Henry James complained about “the body of publishers, editors, illustrators, producers of magazines, which have found their dear, our dear, everybody’s dear Jane ...
( Category: United States June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Eula Biss

The Midwest Back to Buxton Each of us has certain clichés, I suspect, to which we are particularly vulnerable, certain songs we are compelled to play over and over again, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Ronson, Jon [Ronson, Jon]

The Sociopath Mind Guru and the TV Hypnotist It is a Friday in April and you’d think some evangelical faith-healing show was occurring in the big brown conference room of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Jon Ronson

Let’s face it most of us encounter financial problems at some stage in our lives. All it takes sometimes is a little bit of bad luck. The letter goes on ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 16,2017 )