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My Caesarean by Amanda Fields
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Amanda Fields

seam Cameron Dezen Hammon The first time I saw my mother’s scar I was small and playing with her hairbrush. I was seated at her pink-tiled vanity, dipping my fingers ...
( Category: Essays May 4,2019 )
Walt Whitman Speaks by Walt Whitman
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Walt Whitman

The objections to me are the objections made to all men who choose to go their own road—make their own choice of methods. When once I am convinced I never ...
( Category: Modern May 3,2019 )
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It by Bob Boilen
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Bob Boilen [Boilen, Bob]

PHILIP GLASS “Some people would say, ‘You know, Mr. Glass, I really tried and I’ve tried to listen to this piece, and I don’t get it. What should I do?’ ...
( Category: Essays May 2,2019 )
Junk Mail by Will Self
epub |eng | 2006-05-11 | Author:Will Self [Self, Will]

Thatcher is, of course, the real bogey woman of this essay. There was never anything more English than Baroness Thatcher nee Margaret Roberts. She proved once again that anyone in ...
( Category: Anthologies April 29,2019 )
The Rush for Second Place by William Gaddis
epub |eng | | Author:William Gaddis

OLD FOES WITH NEW FACES PRESENTED AT A SYMPOSIUM “The Writer and Religion,” organized by William Gass for the International Writers Center at Washington University in St. Louis, October 1994. ...
( Category: United States April 29,2019 )
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick (ed.)
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Isaac Kramnick (ed.) [Kramnick, Isaac]

ON THEATER AND MORALS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU D‘Alembert wrote the entry for “Geneva” in the Encylopédie, in which he criticized its prohibition of theater. Rousseau replied in 1758 in his Epistle ...
( Category: Renaissance April 29,2019 )
Knitting Yarns by Ann Hood
epub |eng | 2013-04-27 | Author:Ann Hood

knitting a family by Anne D. LeClaire A husband and wife form a couple; it takes the addition of a child to create a family. As the author waits for ...
( Category: Knitting April 28,2019 )
Everything in Its Place by Oliver Sacks
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Oliver Sacks

* * * — I FIRST MET Mr. K. about six months after this, in March 2002. He was a tall, amiable man, well dressed, affable, and voluble. He presented ...
( Category: Neurology April 24,2019 )
All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Lia Purpura

THREE-LEGGED BRANCH First came the sudden, light-struck feel of entering a meadow, though I was deep in the woods in Maine. The pines were thick, the green was black, the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 23,2019 )
White by Bret Easton Ellis
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Bret Easton Ellis

* * * … I’d forgotten about the Vice interview until the “Generation Wuss” component caused a minor explosion in the press. I was immediately asked to appear on talk ...
( Category: Essays April 18,2019 )
Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Helen Ellis

TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY! There wasn’t a clown in my closet. A doll did not turn its head to look at me. A music box did not start playing ...
( Category: Marriage April 18,2019 )
The Edward Said Reader by Edward W. Said & Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Edward W. Said & Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin

* * * — The dynastic sense, the feeling for one’s immediate past, the effort of placing ourselves in a living continuum: there is little help to be gotten for ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 14,2019 )
Roughneck Grace by Michael Perry
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Michael Perry

OLD COP, NEW COP This marks the third consecutive story about my recent roadside visit with a sheriff’s deputy (I was driving with a profoundly lapsed registration), and this time ...
( Category: Authors April 5,2019 )
CRUSH by Cathy Alter
epub |eng | 2016-02-26 | Author:Cathy Alter

PART 6 It Had to Be You First crushes can equal transference. Those we eventually love in real life are carbon copies of our crushes, whether we realize it at ...
( Category: Essays April 1,2019 )
Laura Ingalls Wilder by Sallie Ketcham
epub |eng | | Author:Sallie Ketcham [Sallie Ketcham]

As it happened, Rose would see almost as much of the world as her fictional and eternally wandering counterpart, but the impression she made upon her grandmother at the time ...
( Category: Essays March 31,2019 )

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