Essays
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Walsh, David & Paul Kimmage & John Follain [Walsh, David]

The clean machine Paul Kimmage June 29, 2008 " Here I am, on this team that is really trying to stick by the books and this guy is making fun ...
( Category: Essays March 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-22 | Author:Michael Chabon

“The Rocket Man,” Ray Bradbury THE MOST IMPORTANT SHORT STORY IN MY LIFE AS A WRITER is Ray Bradbury’s “The Rocket Man.” I read it for the first time when ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Shawna Lemay

Poetry and Failure *** As someone who has been attempting to understand the space between poetry and essay, I find it interesting to note that the word essay means, ‘to ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Marie Brenner

* * * As his father had had Bunny Lindenbaum for his fixer, Donald Trump had Roy Cohn, the Picasso of the inside fix. “Cohn taught Donald which fork to ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic October 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-27 | Author:Jerzy Kosinski

DEAD SOULS ON CAMPUS When I taught at Princeton one of my students brought me a story he had written. “I’m sure you won’t like it,” he told me, “because ...
( Category: Essays October 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Richard Russo

* * * — That art should be so elusive is deeply mysterious. In many respects it seems so straightforward. What art demands of us has remained constant down through ...
( Category: Essays May 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Michelle Tea

“Green mohawk, leather jacket, combat boots, spikes, piercings, rings, covered in tattoos, tiny, loud, in your face, laughing, crying, yelling, stoic, tough, pretty, kind, selfless, selfish, self-conscious, insecure, obsessed, girl ...
( Category: Essays May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Chee

Not for the novelist. Not for the reader. But for something else the novelist brings in from the back of the tent like a lion on a chain. Do not ...
( Category: Essays April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Baker, Houston A.; Simmons, K. Merinda;

NOTES 1. Toni Morrison was the one who infamously dubbed Bill Clinton “America’s first black president,” in a 1998 piece she wrote for the New Yorker. For further discussion, see ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Ryan Van Meter

“Cold cuts will take the paint off a car, if the sun is hot enough.” I’ve heard this somewhere, and just knowing it makes me sound as if I am ...
( Category: Essays April 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Peggy Shinner [Shinner, Peggy]

Berenice’s Hair The Tantrics said the forces of creation and destruction lay in the binding and unbinding of a woman’s hair. The Syrians said a woman who combed her hair ...
( Category: United States April 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Henry Hwang

scene 6 Beijing. 1963. Party noises over the house speakers. Renee enters, wearing a revealing gown. GALLIMARD: 1963. A party at the Austrian embassy. None of us could remember the ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals April 1,2018 )
epub |est | 2016-04-14 | Author:Ernst Jünger [Jünger, Ernst]

At the same time, this relationship suggests a weakness in us, namely, that the whole is only comprehensible to us through the sequential nature of life. Initially we also perceive ...
( Category: European March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Vendler

Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon. Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of ...
( Category: Poetry March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Buckley

* * * I. The phrase was actually coined by Alexander Pope. Criticism * * * People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing ...
( Category: Essays January 20,2018 )