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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim by Iceberg Slim
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Iceberg Slim

During my long, idiotic quest for something for nothing, I met under nonsociable conditions in four penitentiaries an army of hacks, bulls, screws—prison guards. At least ninety-eight percent of them ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 29,2015 )
Where Have You Been? by Michael Hofmann
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Hofmann

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Zbigniew Herbert died in 1998. He was a very great and idiosyncratic poet—something in me wants to say a peerless poet—and, it is reported, a perennial Nobel bridesmaid. ...
( Category: German January 29,2015 )
The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick [Ozick, Cynthia]

Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, the day President John Kennedy was assassinated, I wrote the last words of Trust, my first novel. I had ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings by Sylvia Plath
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Sylvia Plath

Day of Success Ellen was on her way to the bedroom with an armload of freshly folded nappies when the phone rang, splintering the stillness of the crisp autumn morning. ...
( Category: Poetry January 29,2015 )
Essays After Eighty by Hall Donald
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Hall, Donald [Hall, Donald]

I was forty before I smoked a cigarette, about the time the surgeon general issued his fuddy-duddy warning. I was a college teacher, separated from my wife, and had entered ...
( Category: Themes & Styles January 29,2015 )
Hymn to Old Age by Hermann Hesse
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Hermann Hesse [Hermann Hesse]

THINKING BACK The hills are purple with heathery sheen. The branches of the brown broom sway. But who knows now how rich and green The forest was in May? Who ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
Those Who Forget the Past by Ron Rosenbaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Ron Rosenbaum

PART SEVEN THE DEICIDE ACCUSATION NAT HENTOFF Who Did Kill Christ? LENNY BRUCE USED TO TELL, in his act, about a Jew who was weary not only of being called ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 29,2015 )
Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair by Bohemians Bootleggers Flappers & Swells
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells

WHAT, EXACTLY, IS MODERN? ALDOUS HUXLEY FROM MAY 1925 At a café in Siena I once got into conversation with an Italian medical student. Like most of his compatriots, he ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
Pulphead: Essays by Sullivan John Jeremiah
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Sullivan, John Jeremiah [Sullivan, John Jeremiah]

When at last Rafinesque returned to North America—of course he did; destiny can’t be eluded, only perverted—his ship could not make port. She headed for Cape Montauk and was baffled ...
( Category: Popular Culture January 29,2015 )
Loitering: New and Collected Essays by Charles D'Ambrosio
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Charles D'Ambrosio [D'Ambrosio, Charles]

Some of what Santos is up to might be called Art Brut, although in its American form, as Outsider Art, its appreciation contains a quotient of irony and class snobbery ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
epub |eng, eng | 1999-01-28 | Author:Dorothea Benton Frank

BY FOUR O’CLOCK the day Tipa died, we had over fifty Corning-ware dishes in the kitchen filled with the specialties of every housewife on the Island. Livvie was in the ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays (Original Harvest Book; Hb333) by Anaïs Nin
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Anaïs Nin [Nin, Anaïs]

Suicide was a grand, dark continent to be charted and I was its cartographer. Suicides were the aristocrats of death—God’s graduate students, acting out their theses to prove how limited ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
State by State
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Matt Weiland

Suki says a girl in Bosnia sent him a letter after reading Tom Sawyer. “Dear Editor,” the letter began, “I am a Bosnian girl who has never seen the sea. ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald by W.G. Sebald
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:W.G. Sebald [Sebald, W.G.]

W. G. SEBALD: I can’t quite remember how it worked. I had this idea of writing a few short pieces for the feuilletons of the German papers in order to ...
( Category: Modern January 29,2015 )
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Hugo Richard
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1992-08-16 | Author:Hugo, Richard [Hugo, Richard]

Be glad of the green wall You climbed across one day, When winter stung with ice That vacant paradise. It is paradise because it is vacant, like a blank sheet ...
( Category: Poetry January 29,2015 )

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