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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe
mobi |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Katie Roiphe

Updike once said that finishing Rabbit at Rest was like a kind of death. In the Rabbit books, Rabbit’s son is with him when he dies. Nelson is undone at ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 15,2016 )
Japanese Tales from Times Past by Naoshi Koriyama
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Naoshi Koriyama

39 A Man from Yamato Province Catches a Hare and Is Punished In olden times, there lived a man in a certain county of Yamato Province. He was wild by ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 15,2016 )
The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today by Bryan Doerries
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Bryan Doerries [Doerries, Bryan]

IV When Jeff and Sheri Hall first heard about Theater of War and were invited to participate in the community panel at the army health conference in New Mexico, they ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 14,2016 )
Readings by Hélène Cixous
epub |eng | | Author:Hélène Cixous

1982-83 Notes 1. Heinrich von Kleist, Werke und Briefe (Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau Verlag, 1978), 483-84. 2. Heinrich von Kleist, "On the Marionette Theater," trans. Christian-Albrecht Gollub, in German Romantic ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 14,2016 )
Billy Ray's Farm by Larry Brown
epub |eng | 2001-03-13 | Author:Larry Brown

The Whore in Me AFTER WHAT SEEMS like a few minutes, the phone rings in your darkened room. You answer it. It’s Craig. He works for your publisher. He wants ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 14,2016 )
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century by Robert A. Heinlein & William H. Patterson Jr
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein & William H. Patterson, Jr. [Heinlein, Robert A. & Patterson,, William H. Jr.]

Your urge to work on stories may be prophetic, or a symptom of one of two things. Either that the plant there is beginning to run reasonably smoothly, or that ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 14,2016 )
Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor
epub |nld | 2005-03-13 | Author:Shashi Tharoor

18 Books and Botox AMERICANS, THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS IT, don't read. At least not as much as they used to. Television, movies, computer games, the Internet — all have ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings by Sackville-West Vita
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Sackville-West, Vita [Sackville-West, Vita]

Perhaps Vita’s most celebrated book, about history, house, and herself, concerns her dearly loved and hard-lost Knole. Her relation to her colorful ancestors infuses the book with nostalgia and beauty. ...
( Category: British & Irish March 14,2016 )
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Annie Ernaux [Ernaux, Annie]

As I write, I see her sometimes as a “good,” sometimes as a “bad” mother. To get away from these contrasting views, which come from my earliest childhood, I try ...
( Category: French March 14,2016 )
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
epub |eng | 2002-03-13 | Author:Paul Auster

13 * * * My first novel was inspired by a wrong number. I was alone in my apartment in Brooklyn one afternoon, sitting at my desk and trying to ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2016 )
Robert A. Heinlein, In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2 by William H. Patterson Jr
epub |eng | | Author:William H. Patterson, Jr.

25 ON TO OTHER THINGS Editors and publishers had always sent Heinlein manuscripts hoping to get a comment to use on the book jacket. Most of the time he was ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 14,2016 )
Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett
epub |eng | | Author:Angelica Garnett

7 At Home in Sussex Meanwhile life at Charleston continued, bathed it seemed in the glow of a perpetual summer. The household fell into two halves: on the one hand ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
Sunburst by Phyllis Gotlieb
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Phyllis Gotlieb

Sunburst: 9 She had been shoved into a small empty office on the ground floor, and had nothing more to do than wait there, heels hooked on chair rungs, hands ...
( Category: Women Writers March 14,2016 )
Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder
epub |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:Jesse Blackadder

CHAPTER 25 The safety rope tightened around Lillemor’s waist as her foot scrabbled against the wall. For a moment she thought she was falling and the fright jolted her, until ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:James Purdy

IN A SECOND-CLASS hotel on La Salle Street, Amos allowed Reuben any and every liberty and intimacy. Indeed Reuben was surprised at the boy’s sexual inexperience, for though Masterson himself ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 14,2016 )

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