Alice Walker’s modern classic,The Color Purple, tells Celie’s story through her letters to God. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society(by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, aunt and niece) is a series of letters from a London writer to the inhabitants of the island of Guernsey. ...
[Reads from back] 'There's no book more important to me,' says Alice Walker, who wrote Possessing the Secret of Joy." [BAM - March 11, 1994] Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl StrayedPublished: 2012 The Truths We Hold by Kamala HarrisPublished...
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped ... ...
Gloria’s never been big on family and wrote them all out of her will, but suddenly she must contemplate her three grandkids as possible candidates. There’s twenty-nine-year-old Daisy, a New York story editor for a movie studio. Her brother, twenty-seven-year-old Matt, does sports PR...
He wrote: There are two loose tendencies in recent art that have not yet been definitely named. One is art as an elaborate projection of the self. In one sense, of course, the firstperson of the artist is expressed in all personally originate painting and sculpture: it has been a ...
Even though Forster wroteMauricein 1913, it wasn’t published until 1971. Maurice and Clive are classmates at Oxford who embark on a two-year affair, which Clive breaks off to marry a woman and live life as landed gentry. Maurice despairs and tries to cure his homosexuality. ...
I had to write 40 hours of new lectures in the first year, and I re-wrote a lot for the second and third years. That’s a lot of words on the page, and since I could pretty much choose my topics (you may not always be able to do this, but if you can, it’s a gift), ...
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William Kiesel, founder of Ouroboros Press, has an insightful essay with impressive examples of the “fold out” devicehere. Among the examples are Manly P. Hall’sThe Secret Teachings of All AgeandCodex Rosicrucis Elias Ashmole’sTheatrum Chemicum Britannicum ...
wrote A Prayer for Owen Meany in 1989 and it is widely considered to be one of his best works. The novel follows the story of two childhood friends, Owen Meany and John Wheelwright, as they grow up together in a small New England town. The narrative centers on their relationship as they...