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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
epub | | | Author:Rebecca Solnit [Solnit, Rebecca]

Iceland’s national parliament, or Althing—the word for “assembly” being, in Icelandic, thing—was formed in 930 AD, about sixty years after the first settlers came over from Norway. They met at ...
( Category: Literature December 27,2014 )
Anatomy of Restlessness
epub |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Bruce Chatwin

1970 IV REVIEWS ABEL THE NOMAD41 Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs are classics in line with Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta. Yet his new autobiographical sketch, Desert, ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Writing in the Dark by Grossman David
epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Grossman, David

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, New York, April 24, 2007 Individual Language and Mass Language To open the International Literature Festival Berlin as an Israeli author is not ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2014 )
Even the Stars Look Lonesome by Maya Angelou
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

After creating the universe, all the stars, each grain of sand, the humpback whale and the soft-shell crab, even God tired and took a day off. There’s no argument that ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Finding a Form by William H. Gass
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

We believe him because what he writes “rings true,” but also because, like Cephalus in Plato’s Republic, he is now nearly free of the world and its ambitions, of the ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
The Fame Lunches by Daphne Merkin
epub |eng | | Author:Daphne Merkin

IV HIGHER VALUES WHEN A BAG IS NOT JUST A BAG 2006 It is the Thursday evening before New Year’s Eve, a time when most equably minded people are busy ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Zibaldone by Leopardi Giacomo
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Leopardi, Giacomo [Leopardi, Giacomo]

This consequence derives from the principle assumed. But since the principle is false, so too the consequence is not true, and this proposition if considered again just by itself, will ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
Boys And Girls Forever by Lurie Alison
mobi |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Lurie, Alison [Lurie, Alison]

Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. Turning aside (in the light of the current political situation, an excellent choice), he continues “down long wiggled roads” toward what Seuss ...
( Category: Children's Literature December 27,2014 )
A Temple of Texts: Essays by William H. Gass
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

Now, as I continue to dance about the memory of my foolish encounter with Canetti in Berlin, imitating Barth’s felicitous footfalls, the moment becomes as full of significance as it ...
( Category: Authorship December 27,2014 )
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:Meghan Daum [Daum, Meghan]

FOUR For six weeks, I lived in a two-story Spanish Colonial in the foothills of Beachwood Canyon, just below the Hollywood sign. I was dogsitting. The plan was to look ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Pecked to Death by Ducks
epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

As in Europe, there are some few people familiar with the origin and meaning of the ancient rituals. I. Ketut Suwena was one. He was fifty-two, the klian, or headman, ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 by Daniel Handler
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Handler

ALI LIEBEGOTT Shift #6 FROM Shifts, a chapbook of diary poems eight household candles twenty-five pounds of short-grain brown rice the freelancer was missing his teeth so slow in the ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Anne Lamott [Lamott, Anne]

Mom Part Two: Nikki My mother’s ashes sat on the shelf in the living room, wrapped in festive paper, for a few weeks longer. I passed her many times a ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise by Monette Paul
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Monette, Paul [Monette, Paul]

1. M. C. Howatson, ed., The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford, 1990), pages 506-507. 2. All quotations from Sappho are from Mary Barnard’s Sappho: A New Translation (Univ. of ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Claudia Rankine [Rankine, Claudia]

Maybe you don’t think so. Maybe you are right, you don’t really have anything to confess. Why are you standing? Listen, you, I was creating a life study of a ...
( Category: Essays December 26,2014 )

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