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From Dover to the Wen by William Cobbett
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:William Cobbett

1. Whence comes the white clover, that comes up and covers all the ground, in America, where hard-wood trees, after standing for thousands of years, have been burnt down? 2. ...
( Category: Essays October 1,2022 )
Dear Damage by Ashley Farmer
epub |eng | | Author:Ashley Farmer

I drive alone to Nevada to see my family and once I’m through the three-hour traffic slog I slip so swiftly through the desert night that I don’t know how ...
( Category: Essays October 1,2022 )
Compass Points by Edward Hoagland
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Edward Hoagland

CARDINAL POINTS A part from “falling in” at reveille at sunrise, with a survivor of the Bataan Death March disdainfully calling our roll, my army posting was easy duty. I ...
( Category: Essays October 1,2022 )
The Best American Sampler by Best American Series
epub |eng | | Author:Best American Series [Best American Series]

Sealand, situated at Oak Bay Marina, was a wholly alien world for a wild orca. Its performance pool—about one hundred feet by fifty feet, and thirty-five feet deep—was created by ...
( Category: Essays October 1,2022 )
My belief : essays on life and art by Hesse Hermann 1877-1962
pdf | | 2022-06-11 | Author:Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962

( Category: Essays September 30,2022 )
The Italian American Reader by Bill Tonelli
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Tonelli

A WEEK AFTER THAT IT was Christmas Eve. The dog still hadn’t come back. None of the neighbors had seen it. The boy was confused. He wondered if maybe Barky ...
( Category: Essays September 30,2022 )
What Poets Are Like by Gary Soto
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Gary Soto [Soto, Gary]

LONDON CALLING ON THE MILLENNIUM BRIDGE, London, I leaned over the rail and cast my eye on the Thames, gray as oil. In fact, the river is partly oil, from ...
( Category: Essays September 30,2022 )
The Year of Living Virtuously by Teresa Jordan
epub |eng | | Author:Teresa Jordan [Jordan, Teresa]

Brooke lived for nearly five years after the accident, and in the end, he chose to die with as much intention and vigor as he had lived. When he recognized ...
( Category: Essays September 28,2022 )
Black Folk Could Fly by Randall Kenan
epub |eng | 2022-06-28 | Author:Randall Kenan [Kenan, Randall]

Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that are ruining the vineyards, While our vineyards are in blossom. —Song of Solomon 2:15 (NAS) Let us be frank: We Americans ...
( Category: Essays September 20,2022 )
Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Lars Horn [Horn, Lars]

Judgement Run Down as Waters In his Histories, Herodotus recounts a failed alliance between Amasis II, pharaoh of Egypt, and Polycrates, tyrant king of Samos. As legend has it, Amasis, ...
( Category: Essays September 20,2022 )
Bright: A Memoir in Fragments by Kiki Petrosino
epub |eng | 2022-08-09 | Author:Kiki Petrosino [Petrosino, Kiki]

One must be able to empathize with a suicide yet not become one. What Prospero did is considered a gravely evil choice in Catholic tradition. For many years, I didn’t ...
( Category: Essays September 20,2022 )
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez
epub |eng | 2022-05-24 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

* * * — Walking around South Pole Station, a visitor is struck by the cosmic reach, the planetary perspective, of the inquiries here. The focus, in fact, of much ...
( Category: Essays September 20,2022 )
Hard Scrabble by John Graves
epub |eng | 2002-09-15 | Author:John Graves [Graves, John]

11 Helpers I have only scant understanding of the quirk that has made me need to find out so many things in life the hardest way, by doing them or ...
( Category: Essays September 19,2022 )
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Jazmina Barrera [Barrera, Jazmina]

40° 46’ 22” N 73° 56’ 24.6” W Blackwell Lighthouse. Cylindrical, octagonal, unpainted gneiss rock tower, 15 meters tall. Inactive since 1940. Ornamented light. Blackwell For the first time, I ...
( Category: Essays September 19,2022 )
Escape into Meaning by Evan Puschak
epub |eng | 2022-08-30 | Author:Evan Puschak

I. In Ten Books on Architecture (30–15 BCE), the Roman architect Vitruvius writes about the ancient Greek palaestra, a public wrestling school that consisted of an open-air rectangular court surrounded ...
( Category: Essays September 6,2022 )

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