Essays
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:André Aciman [Aciman, André]

The Sea and Remembrance I had hopes of heading off to the Lido by way of the Grand Canal this afternoon, but the water taxi I hired at the railway ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Brian Doyle

Hoop Photographs are time machines, and other people’s children are time machines (how did that kid get a foot taller and an octave deeper in a month?), and boxes of ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lydia Davis

* * * 28. Learn at least one foreign language in your life, either on your own (it can be enjoyable) or in a class; read regularly in that foreign ...
( Category: Essays January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-03 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Descriptions of Humanity (Physical) ¶ They rode through those five years in an open car with the sun on their foreheads and their hair flying. They waved to people they ...
( Category: Essays January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Conor Cruise O'Brien [O'Brien, Conor Cruise]

QUEER WORLD Brendan Behan was arrested in Liverpool late in 1939, at the age of sixteen, for participating in the IRA bombing campaign in England. After two months or so ...
( Category: Essays January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andre Perry

3 “In college,” Miranda said, “I was a hipster. I was one of the cool kids.” She meant, I think, to impart on me that, despite my literary pursuits and ...
( Category: Essays January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Thomas Lynch

FROM THE POST-FAMINE cottage of my great-great-grandfather, to the Moveen my great-grandfather left in 1890, to the West Clare that Dorothea Lang photographed in the mid-1950s, to the Ireland I ...
( Category: Essays January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Peter Watts [Watts, Peter]

Chamber of Horrors Nowa Fantastyka Nov 2016 You may know that I was a biologist long before I was an author. You may not know how far back those roots ...
( Category: Essays January 16,2020 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Umberto Eco

Alongside this series of commonplaces, which become amusing only because they are fired off in volleys—as in the technique of the list, where the tritest of expressions become admirable for ...
( Category: European January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Shaheen Bhatt

Crawling I had my first panic attack when I was eighteen years old, post TylenolGate, while getting a hair cut. In general I’ve always found salons to be unnecessarily stressful ...
( Category: Essays January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-01 | Author:Howard Axelrod

JUST A FEW SUNDAYS AGO, on Harvard Avenue, I saw a teenager, maybe fifteen or sixteen, who had found her answer. She was with her parents. They were short and ...
( Category: Essays January 15,2020 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1956-01-12 | Author:Aldous Huxley

APPENDICES I. Two other, less effective aids to visionary experience deserve mention—carbon dioxide and the stroboscopic lamp. A mixture (completely non-toxic) of seven parts of oxygen and three of carbon ...
( Category: Essays January 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Bhalchandra Mungekar [Mungekar, Bhalchandra]

Section 7.7: The Need for Stability of Prices and Exchange Rate The only scientific explanation sufficient to account for the fall of the rupee would be to say that the ...
( Category: Asian January 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Rebecca Fishbein

Friends Stick with You Through Thick and Thin, Unless You Have Bedbugs The other night, an acquaintance of mine threw a surprise party for her boyfriend. I had a bad ...
( Category: Essays December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Richard Russo & Emily St. John Mandel & Ronald Rice

LESLEY KAGEN is a mother of two, an actress, a former restaurateur, accomplished equestrienne, and award-winning New York Times best-selling author of Whistling in the Dark, Land of a Hundred ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling December 17,2019 )