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It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It by Robert Fulghum
epub |eng | 1988-08-01 | Author:Robert Fulghum [Fulghum, Robert]

What do I know now? For one thing, the last item in the list is false. I did grow up to be old enough to know I, too, will die. ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2019 )
Nexus by Henry Miller
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Henry Miller [Henry Miller]

A month had passed and all I had had from Mona were two brief letters. They were living on the rue Princesse in a charming little hotel, very clean, very ...
( Category: United States August 1,2019 )
Latest Readings (2015) by Clive James
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Clive James

Kipling and the Widow-maker BACK IN 2010, during my first year of illness, I added to my woes by stupidly contriving to remain immobile in my cabin throughout an Atlantic ...
( Category: Authors July 27,2019 )
India's Most Fearless 2 by Aroor Shiv & Singh Rahul
epub |eng | 2019-06-23 | Author:Aroor, Shiv & Singh, Rahul [Aroor, Shiv]

8 ‘Climb over Me, Get to the Submarine!’ Lieutenant Commander Firdaus Mogal Arabian Sea, 220 km off the Mumbai coast 30 August 2010, 6.55 a.m. ‘THREE MEN OVERBOARD, SIR!’ Seventy ...
( Category: Essays July 26,2019 )
Letters To Sartre by Quintin Hoare
epub |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:Quintin Hoare

There was nothing! How’s this? I hope you’re not going to play the night observation trick on me?251 But I think I’ll get two tomorrow, so I’m not pathetic’ — ...
( Category: European July 25,2019 )
Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture by Lisa Boucher
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Lisa Boucher [Boucher, Lisa]

I sought out a conversation with a woman I knew named Izzy for two reasons. First, she’s a beautiful spirit who also happened to be a dear friend of my ...
( Category: Alcoholism July 25,2019 )
Rilke in Paris by Rainer Maria Rilke
epub |eng | 2018-07-18 | Author:Rainer Maria Rilke [Rainer Maria Rilke and Maurice Betz]

On 2 January 1909, in the rare euphoria of creation, Rilke allowed his enthusiasm to burst forth. Isn’t it just this way? You comprehend that a man who is only ...
( Category: Essays July 19,2019 )
Rocket and Lightship by Adam Kirsch
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Adam Kirsch [Kirsch, Adam]

The period of Benjamin’s adulthood and achievement was 1914 to 1940, the darkest in modern European history; and if no one ever wrote criticism the way he did, it is ...
( Category: United States July 18,2019 )
Nehru by Walter Crocker
epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Walter Crocker [Crocker, Walter]

CHAPTER 4 The Man During my years in India I kept a collection of photographs of Nehru taken from the Indian press. The day was infrequent when some newspaper or ...
( Category: Essays July 18,2019 )
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
epub |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:T Fleischmann

… Ice is not a pellucid thing, but a disarray of fissures and air. Is not something that is cold but is something that is frozen and feels cold when ...
( Category: Essays July 18,2019 )
1970 by Karen Tei Yamashita
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Tei Yamashita [Yamashita, Karen Tei]

On the subject of racism, Marxism-Leninism, offers us very little assistance. In fact, there is much evidence that Marx and Engels were themselves racists. —Eldridge Cleaver The Black Panther June ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American July 18,2019 )
1974 by Karen Tei Yamashita
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Tei Yamashita [Yamashita, Karen Tei]

Couple of days later, Abra comes by the kitchen. “What are you cooking up?” she asks. “Take a look.” I got a giant pot on the stove filled with water. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American July 18,2019 )
New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Margaret Busby

Dorothea Smartt London-born of Barbadian heritage, she is an internationally respected poet/live artist whose books are Connecting Medium (2001), Ship Shape (2008) and Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer ...
( Category: Essays July 18,2019 )
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:Ross Gay

46. Reading Palms As I was passing through airport security this morning, the young man at the giant X-ray machine, waving me through, made an appropriately appreciative observation of my ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 18,2019 )
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man by David Calonne
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:David Calonne

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 July 13,2019 )

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