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All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Lia Purpura

THREE-LEGGED BRANCH First came the sudden, light-struck feel of entering a meadow, though I was deep in the woods in Maine. The pines were thick, the green was black, the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 23,2019 )
The Best of Benn by Tony Benn
epub |eng | | Author:Tony Benn

Morality, accountability and the British Labour movement It is here that both the moral argument referred to above, and the issue of democratic accountability, which have both played so large ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals April 23,2019 )
White by Bret Easton Ellis
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Bret Easton Ellis

* * * … I’d forgotten about the Vice interview until the “Generation Wuss” component caused a minor explosion in the press. I was immediately asked to appear on talk ...
( Category: Essays April 18,2019 )
Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Helen Ellis

TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY! There wasn’t a clown in my closet. A doll did not turn its head to look at me. A music box did not start playing ...
( Category: Marriage April 18,2019 )
The Edward Said Reader by Edward W. Said & Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Edward W. Said & Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin

* * * — The dynastic sense, the feeling for one’s immediate past, the effort of placing ourselves in a living continuum: there is little help to be gotten for ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 14,2019 )
Roughneck Grace by Michael Perry
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Michael Perry

OLD COP, NEW COP This marks the third consecutive story about my recent roadside visit with a sheriff’s deputy (I was driving with a profoundly lapsed registration), and this time ...
( Category: Authors April 5,2019 )
The Cost of These Dreams by Wright Thompson
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Wright Thompson

AUGUST 2013 Beyond the Breach A summer in search of saints, sinners, and lost souls in the New Orleans that Katrina left behind. I. THE 10-YEAR FLOOD With the air ...
( Category: Essays April 3,2019 )
CRUSH by Cathy Alter
epub |eng | 2016-02-26 | Author:Cathy Alter

PART 6 It Had to Be You First crushes can equal transference. Those we eventually love in real life are carbon copies of our crushes, whether we realize it at ...
( Category: Essays April 1,2019 )
Laura Ingalls Wilder by Sallie Ketcham
epub |eng | | Author:Sallie Ketcham [Sallie Ketcham]

As it happened, Rose would see almost as much of the world as her fictional and eternally wandering counterpart, but the impression she made upon her grandmother at the time ...
( Category: Essays March 31,2019 )
On Haiku by Hiroaki Sato
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Hiroaki Sato

The Haiku Reformer Shiki: How Important Is His Haiku? In an email on October 4, 2015, Charlie Trumbull, the former editor of Modern Haiku, asked me: “Why have so few ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2019 )
The Letter by Mary Crawford
epub |eng | 2018-09-16 | Author:Mary Crawford [Crawford, Mary]

When I walk into Mallory’s hospital room, she is looking much better. Her eyes are flashing with anger and her color is much better. She is flipping through the television ...
( Category: Letters March 25,2019 )
On Being 40(ish) by Lindsey Mead
epub |eng | | Author:Lindsey Mead

10 The Breathtaking Potential of the Attosecond JESSICA LAHEY Time may be the most commonly used noun in the English language, but for most of my career, it was a ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2019 )
Brown White Black by Nishta J. Mehra
epub |eng | | Author:Nishta J. Mehra

* * * “Unanswered questions and unknowable outcomes” could be a tagline for the adoption experience. Becoming an adoptive parent gave me a jump start on making peace with insecurity. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2019 )
Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm
epub |eng | | Author:Janet Malcolm

Sessions went on: They have been hankering for Harriet Miers, which is rather odd, I think. They have suggested somehow that some right-wing cabal caused President Bush to withdraw her ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2019 )
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
epub |eng | 2018-12-12 | Author:Charles Bukowski

beer I don’t know how many bottles of beer I have drunk while waiting for things to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whiskey and beer mostly ...
( Category: Letters March 25,2019 )

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