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There Is Simply Too Much to Think About by Saul Bellow
epub |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Saul Bellow [Bellow, Saul]

An Interview with Myself How do you, a novelist from Chicago, fit yourself into American life? Is there a literary world to which you belong? When I entered the Restaurant ...
( Category: United States April 7,2015 )
Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book by Jackie Martling
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-10-07 | Author:Jackie Martling

McCreedy goes up to the drugstore counter and says, “I need some condoms and some pesticide.” The girl says, “Don’t you mean spermicide?” He says, “No, I mean pesticide. My ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )
The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John D. Rateliff

(ii) The Black Arrow The motif of the Black Arrow both harkens back to the alliterative poems of the 1920s and ahead to the Númenórean blades in The Lord of ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy April 5,2015 )
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olivia Laing

6 GOING SOUTH WE CAME IN ABOVE MIAMI at half past ten. First the lights, in their beautiful switchboard patterns, and then things passing in the space beneath the plane: ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (John MacRae Books) by Hilary Mantel
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now that Grandad was retired, he had more time for testing me on spellings. First every day he oversaw my dinner, indulging me—take that piece of the loaf, it is ...
( Category: European April 5,2015 )
One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan al-Shaykh
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Hanan al-Shaykh

The Mistress of the House’s Tale y case is so strange, and my tale so bizarre, that if I engraved it with needles at the corner of my eye, it ...
( Category: African April 5,2015 )
To the River by Olivia Laing
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olivia Laing

After the sun had dropped and I’d soaped myself thoroughly beneath a lukewarm shower I began to revive. I ate a curry in an empty restaurant and drank a beer ...
( Category: European April 5,2015 )
Brontës by Juliet Barker
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Juliet Barker

( Category: European April 5,2015 )
Burning the Days by James Salter
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:James Salter

II FORGOTTEN KINGS IN MY HAND is a blue square of paper, the blue of Gauloises, and slowly I unfold it once more. I feel the excitement still. The creases ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )
Reading Style by Jenny Davidson
mobi |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Jenny Davidson

Anton Voyl n’arrivait pas à dormir. Il alluma. Son Jaz marquait minuit vingt. Il poussa un profond soupir, s’assit dans son lit, s’appuyant sur son polochon. Il prit un roman, ...
( Category: Fiction April 5,2015 )
Best American Magazine Writing 2013 by The American Society of Magazine Editors
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:The American Society of Magazine Editors

Brittany couldn’t stop thinking about Sam, a reel that looped endlessly in her head. Sam dancing to one of their favorite metal bands, Drowning Pool. Sam dead in the tub ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction April 5,2015 )
Cane by Jean Toomer
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1923-11-12 | Author:Jean Toomer

THE END AFTERWORD “Song of the Son”: The Emergence and Passing of Jean Toomer by Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In memoriam To Charles T. Davis, beloved ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
Tucker's People (1943) by Ira Wolfert
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ira Wolfert [Wolfert, Ira]

XIII IN CALLING Foggarty, it had been Bauer's idea to raid Leo out of business. The moment Leo opened a new place, bang! there would be a raid and another ...
( Category: United States April 1,2015 )
Emperor of the Earth by Czeslaw Milosz
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Czeslaw Milosz [Milosz, Czeslaw]

On Thomas Mayne Reid In Chekhov's story "Boys," written in 1887, twelve-year old Volodia coming home for Christmas vacation brings with him his freckled schoolmate Chechevitzyn. The boys' behavior is ...
( Category: European April 1,2015 )
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers by Edward Mendelson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Edward Mendelson

he was unrepentant when he confronted this aspect of his life. . . .“If I had to do it all over again I don’t suppose I would change anything. The ...
( Category: United States March 31,2015 )

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