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Don't Lick the Minivan by Leanne Shirtliffe
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Leanne Shirtliffe

WE CAN USE THE MONEY FROM THE KIDS’ ACCOUNT TO PAY THE CREDIT CARD BILL Chris’s parents volunteered to look after William and Vivian at our house that fall so ...
( Category: United States November 21,2014 )
The Analects by Confucius
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-12 | Author:Confucius

11.18 Chai [Zigao] is simpleminded; Can [Zeng Can, or Zengzi] is slow; Shi [Zizhang] is given to excess; You [Zilu] tends to be unruly. Zigao was a disciple of Confucius, ...
( Category: Asian November 21,2014 )
Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

AT THE ADELAIDE FESTIVAL The first time I went to an international literary festival, I was bullied into playing centre-forward for the World against Finland (our host nation) in a ...
( Category: General November 21,2014 )
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-20 | Author:Nelson Algren [Nelson Algren]

That was the last sad afternoon that the dealer and the steerer sat together to pretend things were as they once had been between them. While the troubled light first ...
( Category: United States November 21,2014 )
Reading Myself and Others by Philip Roth
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

Writing About Jews* 1 Ever since some of my first stories were collected in 1959 in a volume called Goodbye, Columbus, my work has been attacked from certain pulpits and ...
( Category: United States November 21,2014 )
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-02-06 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

Leopold Wapter P.S. If you have not yet seen the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank. I strongly advise that you do so. Mrs. Wapter and I were ...
( Category: Satire November 21,2014 )
Drawn and Quartered by E. M. Cioran
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:E. M. Cioran

In this dream, I was flattering someone I despise. Waking, a greater self-loathing than if I had really committed such a vileness . . . I feel effective, competent, likely ...
( Category: Modern November 21,2014 )
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran Richard Howard
epub | | 2011-11-20 | Author:E. M. Cioran, Richard Howard [Cioran, E. M.]

STYLE AS RISK INURED to a purely verbal art of thinking, the sophists were the first to occupy themselves with a meditation upon words, their value, propriety, and function in ...
( Category: Religious November 21,2014 )
Leaving India by Minal Hajratwala
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Minal Hajratwala

In December 1966, Bhanu bought her mother the first pair of shoes she had owned since traveling by ship from India: open-toed chappals, to wear to the physiotherapy graduation ceremony. ...
( Category: United States November 20,2014 )
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

THREE PORTRAITS OF PAINTERS [Cezanne] [Matisse] [Picasso] The portraits of Matisse and Picasso were originally published in the August, 1912, issue of CAMERA WORK and later were reprinted in PORTRAITS ...
( Category: United States November 20,2014 )
The Bible's Cutting Room Floor by Joel M. Hoffman
epub |eng | | Author:Joel M. Hoffman

5 ADAM AND EVE: FALLING DOWN AND GETTING BACK UP Judge a tree by its fruit, not its leaves. —LATIN PROVERB Perhaps surprisingly, their first question wasn’t how to survive. ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation November 20,2014 )
Jacques the Fatalist: And His Master by Denis Diderot
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-07-26 | Author:Denis Diderot

MARQUIS: Succeeded! I could not begin to tell you quite how much. Will you not take pity on me? Shall I not be indebted to you for the joy of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 19,2014 )
The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 by Otto Penzler
epub |eng | | Author:Otto Penzler

Now it’s nearly morning. Allie and Billy are surely dead, raped and tortured and robbed, all because they thought life was a game. In a few hours the men from ...
( Category: United States November 19,2014 )
Updike by Adam Begley
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Adam Begley [Begley, Adam]

VII. Updike Abroad In the era of jet planes and electronic communication, a writer in gathering truth should set foot on as much of the globe as he can. —Self-Selected ...
( Category: United States November 19,2014 )
House of Light by Mary Oliver
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

THE NOTEBOOK “Six a.m.— the small, pond turtle lifts its head into the air like a green toe. It looks around. What it sees is the whole world swirling back ...
( Category: United States November 19,2014 )

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