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Selected Letters of Norman Mailer by Norman Mailer
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

Dear Don, [.…] Look, I’m going to give a little back to you. Your letter gave me a pain in the ass. As far as I’m concerned, you pulled the ...
( Category: Authors December 25,2014 )
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Chandra Vikram
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Chandra, Vikram [Chandra, Vikram]

Programmers work doggedly toward correctness, but the sheer size and complexity of software ensures that bugs lurk within. A bug is, of course, a flaw or fault in a program ...
( Category: Authors December 19,2014 )
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-12-13 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Essays December 19,2014 )
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MR. EDDY21 DRIVES MERCEDES, PETE22 LISTENS FOR CAR TROUBLE. (2) Scs 113 EXT MULHOLLAND DRIVE /DAY/ ⅛ pgs MR. EDDY TAKES THE CAR FOR A CRUISE, INFINITI MOVES UP FAST ...
( Category: Essays December 19,2014 )
Artful by Smith Ali
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:Smith, Ali [Smith, Ali]

I was sitting at home in the study, at the desk. I was two-thirds of the way through Oliver Twist. The bad, lost, poor, desperate, filthy, hopeless girl from the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods December 15,2014 )
Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti & Heidi Julavits & Leanne Shapton
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Sheila Heti & Heidi Julavits & Leanne Shapton [Heti, Sheila]

SURVEY Please describe your mind. Right now especially, my mind is mush.—RANDI RIVERA • Romantic.—EMILY RABOTEAU • High levels of comprehension but lower levels of production.—GLORIA ARMINIO • I would ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 15,2014 )
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Ruhl

57. What of aesthetic hatred, and is it useful? What is the nature of aesthetic hatred, and is it at all useful? Is it possible that the people who hate ...
( Category: Essays December 15,2014 )
1984 (Penguin Readers) by George Orwell
epub |eng | 1947-12-31 | Author:George Orwell

7 Our Leader, Emmanuel Goldstein They vaporized Syme. One morning he was not at work; a few careless people talked about his absence. On the next day nobody talked about ...
( Category: Political December 8,2014 )
Wild Child by Chelsea Cain
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Chelsea Cain

Paola Bilbrough Canvastown That spring we lived in Canvastown there were mushrooms the size of dinner plates in the fields, frayed at the gills with lice. My mother wore a ...
( Category: United States December 8,2014 )
Goodbye Soldier
epub |eng | 1985-12-31 | Author:Spike Milligan

Herbert Morrison promises full employment for many years ahead Spanish Frontier Sealed RUSSIA ASKS AMERICA FOR BIG LOAN Nuremberg Defence Opening Delayed Ah, here is the best one; HITLER’S EX-SECRETARY ...
( Category: Authors December 8,2014 )
Migration Memories: Brooklyn Blues by Dennis Reed
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Dennis Reed [Reed, Dennis]

Later that afternoon, the surroundings become cold. Voices change and the object of beauty is brown and round. I can still hear Miss Scott’s voice but it is faint. I ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals December 4,2014 )
A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

The Essence of Poetry TRUTH, THE GOAL OF POETRY In the history of high learning, poetry has become part of the “liberal arts” and especially of rational philosophy ever since ...
( Category: Modern December 4,2014 )
Treasury of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

HONEYED POISON IT WAS a beautiful morn of dizzying brilliance in North Lebanon when the people of the village of Tula gathered around the portico of the small church that ...
( Category: Eastern December 4,2014 )
Tears and Laughter by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

Until when shall the people remain asleep? Until when shall they continue to glorify those Who attained greatness by moments of advantage? How long shall they ignore those who enable ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 4,2014 )
As Always, Julia by Joan Reardon
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Reardon [Reardon, Joan]

Per 1 cup cooked mashed potatoes: 1⅓ TB butter 1½ yolks (the US "large" egg, 1 TB per yolk) 1 TB cream (or milk, which is less rich!) salt, pepper, ...
( Category: French December 1,2014 )

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