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Selected Letters of William Styron by William Styron
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:William Styron [Styron, Rose]

TO WILLIAM BLACKBURN July 11, 1962 Vineyard Haven, MA Dear Doctor: I’m delighted to hear that you’re coming and will be on the lookout for you at the dock in ...
( Category: Modernism October 16,2014 )
The Wainwright Letters by Hunter Davies
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Hunter Davies

LETTER 133: TO BETTY, AUGUST 1967? NEW READERS START HERE Red, a rather distinguished-looking local government officer, and Eric, who beggars description, are engaged on a tour of the Scottish ...
( Category: Letters October 16,2014 )
From the Top by Michael Perry
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Michael Perry

THAT CAT Back home on the farm I have been contemplating my status in the realm. The trigger for this introspection is a black cat, probably even now this very ...
( Category: Comedy October 16,2014 )
The H.D. Book by Coleman Victor Duncan Robert Boughn Michael
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Coleman, Victor, Duncan, Robert, Boughn, Michael

No poetic fantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell . . . where “poetic fantasy,” with its connotation of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 16,2014 )
Whatever it is, I Don't Like it by Howard Jacobson
epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Howard Jacobson

Anyone Speak English? Did I recently read, or did I just dream, of a surgeon halting an operation on the grounds that the theatre nurses lacked adequate English to understand ...
( Category: World Literature October 16,2014 )
False Papers by André Aciman
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:André Aciman

Becket’s Winter For about a month or so in the winter of 1965, we spoke of little else but the movie Becket. Becket burst into our narrow little world the ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
epub |eng | 2005-08-31 | Author:Susan Coolidge [Coolidge, Susan]

CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. ON THE TRACK OF ULYSSES. "We are going to follow the track of Ulysses," said Katy, with her eyes fixed on the little travelling-map in her ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 15,2014 )
Rollo's Philosophy. [Air] by Jacob Abbott
epub |eng | 2008-04-26 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

The other paper was also in Rollo's handwriting, and was as follows:— "If the entry was full of water, and the parlor full of air, and the walls were water-tight, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 15,2014 )
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Anna Quindlen [QUINDLEN, ANNA]

Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you’ll go away and only ...
( Category: General October 13,2014 )
The Decay of Lying and Other Essays by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Oscar Wilde

and ends the sonnet by congratulating himself on the mean state of him he so adored: Then happy I, that love and am beloved, Where I may not remove nor ...
( Category: Essays October 13,2014 )
Study in Perfect by Sarah Gorham
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-10-08 | Author:Sarah Gorham

Chastened, the cat returns in his cat-driven, cat-manufactured, quickerpickerupper jalopy. It’s a Rube Goldberg contraption with cockeyed springs and telescoping arms, none of them entirely solid or securely attached. But ...
( Category: Essays October 9,2014 )
Screams From the Balcony by Bukowski Charles
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Bukowski, Charles [Bukowski, Charles]

so here I sit like a shit writing a 23 year old kid I never met and I get drunkeran drunker and jam the beer down down the sunlight is ...
( Category: United States October 9,2014 )
Living on Luck by Bukowski Charles
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Bukowski, Charles [Bukowski, Charles]

The book being referred to in the following is Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, published June 1972. [To John Martin] February 6, 1972 [***] I’ve done ten of the drawings for ...
( Category: Letters October 9,2014 )
Notes of A Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Charles Bukowski

To Funky Bukowski I call you funky Bukowski, because I think you’re nasty don’t get mad, cause, I like your nasty — it makes me hot to read about; you ...
( Category: Short Stories October 9,2014 )
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Bukowski Charles & Calonne David Stephen
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Bukowski, Charles & Calonne, David Stephen [Calonne, David Stephen]

I figured 500-plus air might make this community college outside Detroit worth my soul so I got on American and worked the stewardesses for extra drinks. I was to land ...
( Category: Essays October 9,2014 )

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