Diaries & Journals
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Henri Cole

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY for James Lord called him “an intimate of Picasso and Giacometti,” and it reported that he is survived by “his longtime companion and adopted son.” ...
( Category: Surrealism May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Carl Rollyson

17 RECOVERY 1976–77 In the spring of 1976, Sigrid Nunez, a twenty-five-year-old writer and Columbia University MFA, went to work for Susan Sontag. During Sontag’s illness, correspondence had piled up, ...
( Category: United States April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-29 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

TO MRS. EMERSON (AT CONCORD). Staten Island, October 16, 1843. MY dear Friend, — I promised you some thoughts long ago, but it would be hard to tell whether these ...
( Category: Anthologies April 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:J.D. McClatchy

- “ ‘I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness.’ “ ...
( Category: General March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Pat Conroy

The Best Night in the Life of This Aging Citadel Point Guard… JANUARY 2015 I’ll not pretend this is not one of the greatest nights of my life and one ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Helena Whitbread [Whitbread, Helena]

Anne described her meeting with Miss Ponsonby to a friend in York, Miss Sibbella MacLean, with whom she frequently corresponded. Saturday 3 August [Halifax] ‘… If any of your friends ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals March 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-27 | Author:Aaron Swartz

Toward a Larger Left http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/04/toward-a-larger-left/ August 4, 2009 Age 22 Stanford, like many universities, maintains full employment for humanities professors by requiring new students to take their seminars. My heart ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Aaron Swartz [Swartz, Aaron]

Toward a Larger Left http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/04/toward-a-larger-left/ August 4, 2009 Age 22 Stanford, like many universities, maintains full employment for humanities professors by requiring new students to take their seminars. My heart ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals January 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Graves, Donald E.

Training Company: 500 men (75% ‘Magen’ personnel) all aged over 35 Convalescent Company: Approximately 150 men During the preceding few months, personnel of these companies underwent a fairly thorough training ...
( Category: Germany November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 1996-03-07 | Author:Murasaki Shikibu [Shikibu, Murasaki]

The time for the return to the Palace was approaching, but we were constantly rushed off our feet. Her Majesty was involved in her book-binding, and so first thing every ...
( Category: Women October 10,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:Nick Rennison [Rennison, Nick]

Illustrated Robin Most people have their own image of Robin Hood but there are certain elements which are common to nearly all the pictures of the iconic outlaw that individuals ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals July 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Heidi Julavits

Today I tried again to read the Goncourts. I know I said I’d definitively given up on them, but this is the beauty or the lameness of me—there’s no shortage ...
( Category: Women April 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

Now Phase Three. The time of playing the game. Carlotta cannot be the center of my life, only (possibly) part of a plural center that will include work, friends, other ...
( Category: Authors January 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Dennis Reed [Reed, Dennis]

Later that afternoon, the surroundings become cold. Voices change and the object of beauty is brown and round. I can still hear Miss Scott’s voice but it is faint. I ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals December 4,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-09-14 | Author:Heinrich Böll [Böll, Heinrich]

11 Der tote Indianer in der Duke Street Nur zögernd hebt der irische Polizist seine Hand, um das Auto zu stoppen. Wahrscheinlich ist er der Nachfahre eines Königs oder der ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals November 4,2014 )