Essays
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:David Sedaris

Town and Country They looked like people who had just attended a horse show: a stately couple in their late sixties, he in a cashmere blazer and she in a ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:David Sedaris

Town and Country They looked like people who had just attended a horse show: a stately couple in their late sixties, he in a cashmere blazer and she in a ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Sloane Crosley

AS TIME PASSED AND MORE OF OUR PEERS JOINED Zooey in the Active Uterus Club, I became less exempt from her wrath. Zooey’s prior embarrassment had been alleviated by the ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:David Rakoff

I had arrived here thinking of that oft told urban myth of the man who, newly diagnosed with cancer, checks himself into a hotel room for the weekend with videotapes ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-10-28 | Author:Jon Stewart

FIVE UNDER FIVE WHO AMONG US will build that bridge to the twenty-first century? Who among us will fail to identify the correct cultural trends and end up living under ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-30 | Author:George Saunders

HUSTLING FOR SCHOOLBOOKS I cross the bridge into Nuevo Laredo (“the most dangerous city in North America,” according to Dan) with an African American long-haul truck driver from Kentucky who’s ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Percy, Walker [Percy, Walker]

(14) The Orbiting Self: Reentry Problems of the Transcending Self, or Why it is that Artists and Writers, Some Technologists, and indeed Most People have so much Trouble Living in ...
( Category: Self-Help & Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Joan Rivers

THINGS NOT TO SAY AT A DINNER PARTY The table looks great; most of the place settings match. There’s a pubic hair in my soup and it looks like Uncle ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2010-03-09 | Author:Chelsea Handler

My brother Greg Chapter Seven Black-on-Black Crime When I travel to New York, I hire a big, black, British driver named Sylvan. I call him Chocolate Chunk. At the end ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Walker Percy

(14) The Orbiting Self: Reentry Problems of the Transcending Self, or Why it is that Artists and Writers, Some Technologists, and indeed Most People have so much Trouble Living in ...
( Category: Self-Help & Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-04-15 | Author:Charlie Brooker

Ethically Right? [31 August] In the good old days (you know, back when we all lived in fear of nuclear extinction and greed and bigotry were rife, utterly unlike the ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-19 | Author:Philip Zaleski

JILL NOEL K ANDEL Burial Cloth Removed FROM River Teeth TEN YEARS OF MY LIFE LIE HIDDEN. I MISSED THE 1980S ALTOGETHER. When people talk about ’80s TV shows, politics, ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

In deep disgust with his contemporaries, especially his fellow academicians at King’s College, Cambridge, Solanka becomes entranced by the possibility of seeing the world “miniaturized”: It was a trick of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Tony Judt

Back in 1970 the École boasted quite a few self-styled “Maoists.” One of them, a talented mathematician, took pains to explain to me why the great Bibliothèque des Lettres should ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-10-13 | Author:Chandra, Bipan [Chandra, Bipan]

24 The Rise of the Left-Wing A powerful left-wing group developed in India in the late 1920s and 1930s contributing to the radicalization of the national movement. The goal of ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )