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Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art
To breed or not to breed? That is the question twenty-eight accomplished writers ponder in this collection of provocative, honest, soul-searching essays. Based on a popular series at Salon.com, Maybe Baby offers both frank and nuanced opinions from a wide range of viewpoints on parenting choices, both alternative and traditional. Yes: "I've been granted access to a new plane of existence, one I could not have imagined, and would not now live without."--Peter Nichols No: "I can sort of see that it might be nice to have children, but there are a thousand things I'd rather spend my time doing than raise them."--Michelle Goldberg Maybe: "As we both slip into our mid-thirties, my own personal daddy dilemma has quietly taken on an urgency that I frankly didn't expect."--Larry Smith From infertility to adoption, from ambivalence to baby lust, Maybe Baby brings together the full force of opinions about this national, but also intensely personal, debate.
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020 Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'. 'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer _________________________________ 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realise we don't want to hold it together . . .' The final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography', Real Estate, is available now. _________________________________ 'I just haven't stopped reading it . . . it talks so beautifully about being a woman' Billie Piper on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs 'It is the story of every woman throughout history who has expended her love and labour on making a home that turns out to serve the needs of everyone except herself. Wonderful' Guardian 'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise . . . a brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph 'A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, "What is a woman for? What should a woman be?"' Tatler 'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights' Financial Times
The action-packed sequel to The Boy in the Post: perfect for fans of the Adventures on Trains series! 'Energetic, lively and charming' READING ZONE on The Boy in the Post A few months have passed since Orinthia's transatlantic adventure with her two younger brothers and the mailbox menagerie is thriving, training animails to deliver post. Then a family of ice-cream makers arrive in the village - including daughter Jemima - and announce they're entering their ice-cream into the prestigious Golden Udder Awards in Norway. Orinthia and Jemima decide to train a pair of cows to deliver a true show-stopper during the competition. But on the voyage to Norway and beyond, it's clear someone is determined to sabotage their efforts ... A warm, adventurous and action-packed sequel to The Boy in the Post - though can be easily read as a standalone story A brillantly-imagined fantasy world with a vintage feel and a trio of characters you'll long to be friends with As a child, Holly was a lead actress in ITV's original Worst Witch series! Perfect for fans of M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman's Adventures on Trains series
Poker is much more than just a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated with a multitude of colorful characters: professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers. This royal flush of a collection brings together short stories, essays, poems, and excerpts from novels by a host of renowned writers -- from the Wild West to present day -- who have mined their personal experience of the game. Entertaining and enlightening, you'll want to ante up for Read 'Em and Weep. With pieces by ... Nelson Algren Andy Bellin Anthony Holden Katy Lederer James Thurber Barbara Tuchman Billy Collins Pete Dexter Martin Amis David Mamet Herbert O. Yardley A. Alvarez ...And More
Leafing through the Guardian I found a picture of William Butler Yeats receiving his Nobel Prize in 1923. It was a photograph my father used to show me as a child. I always assumed that both men were from a hot country because of their black hair and thick, pale, fast-tanning skin. My father used to avoid Irish people, so I didn't know what they looked like. Suddenly I realised there was a strong, personal resemblance.
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart. Here are subjects Didion has long written about - the press, politics, California robber baronsac, women, the act of writing, and her own self-doubt. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive and, in new light, stunningly prescient.
Penned in 1925 during the aftermath of a nervous breakdown, On Being Ill is a groundbreaking essay by the Modernist giant Virginia Woolf that seeks to establish illness as a topic for discussion in literature. Delving into considerations of the loneliness and vulnerability experienced by those suffering from illness, as well as aspects of privilege others might have, the essay resounds with an honesty and clarity that still rings true today. 'Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no - with a few exceptions... literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear, and, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed, is null, and negligible and non-existent.'
The general understanding of dA (c)jA vu is this: DA (c)jA vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not. So how would you feel if five years of your life flashes in front of your eyes in a space of five minutes or your dreams come to life in the same week? Samuel, I have been in situations where dA (c)jA vu was so clear, I was not sure whether I was dreaming or living.
On the 18th of March 2013 David Littlejohn Beveridge set out, in fulfillment of childhood dreams, to walk the ancient pilgrim route called the Way of St.James or Camino de Santiago from Roncesvalles to Santiago de Compostela. Earth Under My Heel is his journal.
Today's reader has choices: books about love, about life, about death - and everything in between. The variety is overwhelming, bewildering. But what if the reader could play a part in producing something different, something about everything, about nothing, about everything and nothing at the same time? What if the reader could tell the writer what to write about? Lev Parikian asked his readers those very questions, gathered their responses and then set out to write that book. Music to Eat Cake By is the result, a collection of essays exploring everything from the art of the sandwich and space travel to how not to cure hiccups and, of course, his beloved birdsong. Lev considers each subject with his signature wit and warmth, inviting the reader to wonder: what might we ask him to write about next?
Oswald Harcourt-Davis joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1916 to become a despatch rider. He was allocated a Triumph motorcycle at Abbeville France on 18th July 1916 and was attached to the ANZACs for the duration of the war which saw him motorcycling around the Somme and Ypres Salient areas. He won his military medal at Messines.
Overwhelmed and desperate for a remedy that would heal her son, Fredericka Charles tried, it seems everything to help him. She revisits this seemingly hopeless chapter of her life in the confidence that it would help someone.
Paul and Charlotte Bondy were refugees from Hitler caught up in Churchill's policy of mass internment. Paul was detained at the Alien Internment Camp at Huyton, near Liverpool, from late June to early December 1940. During this time his only contact with his wife and young daughter was by post. As this young married couple struggled to overcome the vicissitudes of war and exile to maintain some semblance of family life, they wrote to each other regularly. The letters, postcards and telegrams reproduced here are a unique example of a complete WW2 Internment Correspondence.
Gentleman Jack - Anne Lister - and Eliza Raine are 13-year-olds at boarding school. Both alienated from the other wealthy Yorkshire girls, they slept in the same bed in a small, unheated attic room and confided about schoolwork, families and personal problems, so their friendship grew deep and serious. Each had what the other craved: Anne, with no money, saw that Eliza could be independent. Lonely Eliza envied Anne's well-respected, stable family. And when Anne put her arm around Eliza, the beautiful, exotic Indian girl responded.
Writing an essay is rather like building a house. First, you need to have a carefully thought-out plan and a clear idea of how to use all the different tools and building materials. Of course, you also need to know what the finished project should look like. What are the conventions that other building contractors use? What does the home-owner expect? Only once you fully understand the basic principles of building are you able to put together, brick by brick, the four walls, a floor, a roof and the finishing touches, such as windows and doors. Much the same is true of writing an essay. You need to know the building regulations. You need to know what you are expected to build. You need to know the secrets and tricks of the trade. You need to practise. In this handbook, students - those who are about to write their first essay and those who have written numerous essays but who know that they are capable of obtaining better results - are guided along the basic principles of planning and building an essay that is well structured, clear and concise, and meets the high international standards required by tertiary educational institutions.
Hoe leer jy skryf? Hoe skryf mens oor jouself, oor ander, oor plekke en gebeure of oor idees en oortuigings? Hoe begin jy 'n treffende teks, hoe sluit jy dit af? Mens leer vinnig as jy langs 'n goeie ambagsman gaan staan en mooi loer wat hy doen en die tegnieke wat hy benut in jou eie werk begin toepas. Dit is die lekkerste en vinnigste manier. Hier is 'n boek in Afrikaans wat saamgestel is om jou daarmee te help. Om te skryf bevat vertalings van bekende Engelse prosa en oorspronklike Afrikaanse tekste, maar die boek gaan nie oor wat die skrywers se nie - belangrik soos dit mag wees - maar oor die hoe: die tegnieke waardeur hulle hul boodskap helder oordra. Na elke uittreksel, word daar vrae gestel wat die leser help om die woordmeesters se styl, tegniek en vaardighede aan te leer. Inhoud behels persoonlike skryfwerk, die karakterskets en beskrywing, asook meer abstrakte konsepte soos die uiteensetting van 'n agument en 'n poging om ander mense te oortuig. Later volg tegnieke om 'n stuk te begin en te eindig, skryfwerk oor kuns en media en ten slotte 'n afdeling oor die nuanses van individuele styl. Die boek bevat ook 'n woordelys met bondige definisies van terme wat in die oefenvrae in die boek gebruik word. Die eerste Afrikaanse boek van sy soort vir aspirant skrywers, joernaliste, en enigiemand wat lief is vir literatuur of daarin belangstel om sy skryfvaardighede te verbeter; bevat oor 'n honderd uittreksels uit werk van van die voorste skrywers in die geskiedenis (van Plato tot V.S. Naipaul), asook van die beste skryfwerk uit ons eie literere en joernalistieke erfenis (van Etienne Leroux tot Dana Snyman); opsigselfstaande afdelings bied lesers buigsaamheid om by enige afdeling te begin; oefeninge maak dit moontlik om toe te pas wat gelees is; vergesel van 'n webwerf met gereelde kompetisies, ens. - www.omteskryf.net
One morning Carolina wakes up, determined to change something in her life. She has had enough of living her monotonous daily routine and craves something else, something unusual. How about a trip around the world? Her adventure takes her to the Middle East, Africa and Oceania. During her travels she encounters endangered mountain gorillas, walks with wild lions, and flirts with adrenaline boosting activities like bungee jumping. But what does this experience bring her spiritually? |
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