Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2021-08-03 | Author:Phillip Lopate [Lopate, Phillip]

The ancient religions all have injunctions against speaking the name of God. Truth, they know, rests in silence. As Dora Diamant, unarmed against the august priests of literature who surrounded ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

Detroit’s East Side is now the poorest, most violent quarter of America’s poorest, most violent big city. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. Stand at ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 22,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Mary Gaitskill [Gaitskill, Mary]

This is Leslie Fiedler, writing about Simone Weil. When I read it, I thought, Yes, that is me: deep in dreams of marbles, omens, and psychics, hoping that something will ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

That we are spirits that have descended into our bodies, of this Emerson was sure. That each man was utterly important and limitless, an “infinitude,” of this he was also ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

LESLIE STEPHEN BY the time that his children were growing up the great days of my father’s life were over. His feats on the river and on the mountains had ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Richard Henry Dana Jr

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

5. Poe’s work is exquisitely and opulently constructed; the narratives have a fascination that is a sure-hold—a quality that, for lack of another word, one might simply call entertainment. They ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-05 | Author:Hall, Stuart [Hall, Stuart]

REFERENCES Alavi, Hamza. 1975. “India and the Colonial Mode of Production.” Socialist Register . Althusser, Louis. 1965. For Marx . London: Allen Lane. Althusser, Louis. 1971. Lenin and Philosophy and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-30 | 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: Essays & Correspondence October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 1890-10-14 | Author:Henry Stephens Salt

n,g,t,7rJM,GOOglC their national liberties with an indifference to abolition ; and on one of the occasions when a runaway slave was surrendered to his owners by the Massachusetts Government, he ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 16,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-21 | Author:Rick Bragg [Bragg, Rick]

{ Nine } Tumbling, Tumbling Down A boy should have had this dog, a tireless, terrible, indestructible boy. Every bang of the screen door would have been the start of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 16,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Colebrook [Colebrook, Helen]

Habit Tracker Once my goals are set, I think about the habits I need to regularly carry out to enable me to achieve these goals. These could include anything from ...
( Category: Journal Writing Self-Help September 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Sana Abuleil [Abuleil, Sana]

06/11/2013 every time you say “forever” you want to pour bleach down your throat because he's not forever and you're not broken anymore. 08/17/2013 i know you want to be ...
( Category: Death & Grief September 13,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elinore Pruitt Stewart [Stewart, Elinore Pruitt]

Every log in my house is as straight as a pine can grow. Each room has a window and a door on the east side, and the south room has ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 13,2021 )
epub |fra | 2015-12-15 | Author:Jean-René Huguenin [Huguenin, Jean-René]

( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 13,2021 )