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Fox by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 2001-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

Not moved yet she and hers her child inside gazing at a screen and she a reader once now a woman foreseeing elbows sore with the weight she has placed ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts After the text of my letter to Jane Alexander, then chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, had been fragmentarily ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think by Shirley Hazzard
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...
( Category: Essays November 29,2016 )
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 )
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 )
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Susan Sontag

PRESENCE/ABSENCE. Dance, most present, incarnate of arts, is used by Childs in the service of an aesthetic of absence. This principle was first acknowledged in a Dadaist way, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
A is For Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Harkup

Three Act Tragedy Mr Babbington was peering across the room with amiable short-sighted eyes. He took a sip of his cocktail and choked a little. He was unused to cocktails, ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective February 15,2016 )
A Journey with Two Maps by Eavan Boland
epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Eavan Boland

Charlotte Mew: An Introduction I Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869. Her family—middle-class, respectable, afflicted— lived at number 30 Doughty Street in the borough of Camden. I lived ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2016 )
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Viviane Forrester
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Viviane Forrester [Forrester, Viviane]

A final note: shortly after Adrian’s death, Karin committed suicide. Virginia moved to Fitzroy Square, still in Bloomsbury, with her younger brother; Adrian would escort her to dances, concerts, costume ...
( Category: Women Authors November 12,2015 )
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Samantha Ellis [Ellis, Samantha]

7 LUCY HONEYCHURCH It’s embarrassing to admit how wildly I misread A Room with a View when I was 20. Though I’m beginning to think all readings are provisional, and ...
( Category: Women Authors July 28,2015 )
Prose by Elizabeth Bishop
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Bishop

Chapter 10 The United States and Brazil have many things in common besides both being in the Western Hemisphere and sharing the name of Amerigo Vespucci. It is time we ...
( Category: Anthologies July 12,2015 )
Sleep of the Innocent by Medora Sale
epub |eng | 2015-06-10 | Author:Medora Sale [Sale, Medora]

Fielding was containing his joy at the sight of Sanders pretty effectively. “Yes?” he said, drawling out the word insultingly. “Simple matter, Mr. Fielding. I would like to know the ...
( Category: Women Writers June 11,2015 )
The Ayn Rand Reader by Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff

EDITOR’S NOTE: By the novel’s midpoint, the economy is in a state of collapse. Dagny Taggart has quit as operating vice president of Taggart Transcontinental, and has been replaced by ...
( Category: Women Writers June 11,2015 )
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 )

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