“I makes concessions every day I lives,” said Lydia, “but I do like to sleep the night alone. This doctor, he don’t want to sleep alone. That’s what the neat and obliging means.” The woman’s face flushed dark with anger. “You people have no sense of truth!” she said. ...
With the exception ofUnpacking my LibraryandBetween the Sheets, Spector’s works in the Books On Books Collection fall into the category of ephemera. More than most book artists’ ephemera such as invitations, broadsides and the like, however, Buzz Spector’s ephemera have that self-reflexivenes...
"The whole of the city is aglow," begins the 20-year-old heroine of this startling first novel, as she leads a teenaged prostitute to a wretched encounter on a gravestone beneath a cathedral. "The Liver buildings, brightly drenched by the rising moon, reign magnificently in a cloudless ...
I didn’t read all 960 pages of this book but I read enough to feel like I had a good handle on Russian culture. I like reading Rutherford when traveling to new places, he does great research and makes history narrative in a very readable way. When the English Fall, David Williams ...
opposite angle. This is the disorienting part: to be denied “progress” as one turns the page seems oddly like flashback, which it patently is not; it might be called “extreme simultaneity.” Two versions of the same thing (two sides of the story) are happening at the same time....
Like Carp, he thinks so highly of himself that everyone else in his world is merely a passing shadow. Wilfred feels he has made not only the supreme but also the most logical sacrifice in allowing his able wife Roberta, to go out and work while he remains at home. He’s happy to be...
But like most tribes of the day they needed more land for their ever-expanding population. It was because of this their rangatira decided to lead a sizeable war party down the east coast in search of slaves and new territory. The decision to make war was not taken lightly. The Te Ara...
“Outskirts of the city in late afternoon like the old dream of sun rays through afternoon trees. – Out at Victoria Station, where some of the students were met by limousines. – Pack on back, excited, I started walking in the gathering dusk down Buck-ingham Palace Road seeing for the ...
Sun Li like to read story books, so the story must have been her. Li Ming often goes to school by bike, so the bike key must be his. Wang Na feared by the Sun, but she also likes to be cool, so sunglasses must be her. Wei Li's hair is longer, so she needs a hair band,...
‘I wasn’t even aware that he had one. He never talked about having an interest in a woman, or going out to dinner with one, or anything like that.’ Peregrin tapped the diary. ‘This book is a hell of a lot more personal than any of that! It basically documents his sex life ...