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One Last Lunch by Erica Heller
epub |eng | 2020-05-12 | Author:Erica Heller

Kaylie Jones is the author of five novels, including A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, adapted as a Merchant-Ivory film. Her memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, was published by ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 22,2020 )
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (The Best American Series ®) by Sheila Heti
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Sheila Heti [Heti, Sheila]

CSS: This is really provocative. Are you saying then—let’s just focus on the U.S.—that every African American, regardless of income or wealth or status, can and should be understood in ...
( Category: Anthologies May 21,2020 )
Brown Album by Porochista Khakpour
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Porochista Khakpour [Khakpour, Porochista]

7. Portrait of the Starving Artist October 2007: It is a fact that even a NYTBR-approved novelist can still find herself in highly undignified positions at certain times. Two months ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 19,2020 )
The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 by Zaleski Philip (editor)
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Zaleski, Philip (editor)

These days we trade off, one year at a hotel with my family and the next at a different hotel with hers. Though the location may change, there is an ...
( Category: United States May 17,2020 )
Figure It Out by Wayne Koestenbaum
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wayne Koestenbaum

(2015) “MY” MASCULINITY REMIX 1. In 1994, I wrote a short essay called “‘My’ Masculinity.” Twenty-two years later, I revoke my earlier version and start the composition all over again. ...
( Category: Essays May 16,2020 )
The Writer Who Stayed by William Zinsser
mobi |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:William Zinsser

Central Park Lite Experiential optimization in the app brigade Central Park and I go back almost as far as a man and a park can go. In the early 1930s, ...
( Category: United States May 15,2020 )
Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Helen Elliott

Judith Brett My Grandmother’s House I became a grandmother last year, at sixty-nine, to a lively girl born to my youngest daughter. My grandmother was forty-eight when I was born ...
( Category: Essays May 14,2020 )
Believe in People by Karel Capek
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Karel Capek [Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová]

About Birdsong The People’s Paper, 9 June 1929 Various commonplace ideas about birdsong are pervasive: that birdsong is delectable, for instance. Conversely I heard the other day a lady, who ...
( Category: Essays May 10,2020 )
Some Anatomies of Melancholy by Robert Burton
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Robert Burton

Nothing comes in so thick, Nothing goes out so thin, It must needs follow then The dregs are left within. As that old poet scoffed, calling it Stygiæ monstrum conforme ...
( Category: Modern May 6,2020 )
A Chequered Brilliance by Jairam Ramesh
epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Jairam Ramesh [Ramesh, Jairam]

Rajaji was then India’s home minister, having succeeded Sardar Patel. He would indeed retire from active public life in November 1951 but that retirement was to last just five months ...
( Category: Leadership April 26,2020 )
On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

LECTURE V. THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. [May 19, 1840.] Hero-Gods, Prophets, Poets, Priests are forms of Heroism that belong to the old ages, make their ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2020 )
Private Investigations by Victoria Zackheim
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Victoria Zackheim [Zackheim, Victoria]

I DON’T KNOW THIS WORD – Rachel Howzell Hall – I WAS THREE YEARS INTO MY THIRTIES, AND I KNEW LOTS of words. Elysian. Lollygag. Bloviate. Catawampus. But then I ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2020 )
The Man Who Japed by Dick Philip K
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Dick, Philip K [Dick, Philip K]

“I have a feeling,” he said finally, “that due to fatigue you’re growing subconsciously uncooperative. Therefore it’s my decision that we defer the balance of the tests to some other ...
( Category: Humorous April 23,2020 )
Essays by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Plutarch

ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:David Womersley [Gibbon, Edward]

[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category: Historiography April 19,2020 )

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