saw his chunky bigjawed face looming over hers, and smelled his foul breath as he forced her head back and hissed in her ear: ‘You think you can mess with us because of your brothers but your brothers aren’t here to protect you now.’ He spat a gob of blood into her hair and a...
saw his chunky bigjawed face looming over hers, and smelled his foul breath as he forced her head back and hissed in her ear: ‘You think you can mess with us because of your brothers but your brothers aren’t here to protect you now.’ He spat a gob of blood into her hair and a...
I’m in my first year of college, and in my English class we were told to write an essay about our favorite book. I chose the Spirit Keeper of course! In doing my research I learned about how much you struggled with Penguin over the publication of TSK, and I just want to say KB,...
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ESSAYON JORIE GRAHAM'S "TO 2040": To the reader, please note: When the Washington Post editors gave me this assignment, they asked me to write an "appreciation" of TO 2040, by Jorie Graham. The assignment was to be in part "personal" but mostly "critical...
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ESSAYON JORIE GRAHAM'S "TO 2040": To the reader, please note: When the Washington Post editors gave me this assignment, they asked me to write an "appreciation" of TO 2040, by Jorie Graham. The assignment was to be in part "personal" but mostly "critical...
LOS ANGELES — This essayI penned for NFL Network’s GameDay Morning Saturday pregame show is my fun take on how Tom Brady and Andrew Luck, who face off Saturday at Foxobrough in what should be a thrilling AFC Divisional matchup, have created their own blueprint to winning football games....
I published my last essay on this website five years ago. What have I been doing all this time? Having kids! I’m now the proud Dad of a four year old boy and a two year old girl. They’re very cute and very defiant. We’re working on that. I launched this website to share...
I published my last essay on this website five years ago. What have I been doing all this time? Having kids! I’m now the proud Dad of a four year old boy and a two year old girl. They’re very cute and very defiant. We’re working on that. I launched this website to share...
When they reached Kolbano, Sergeant Schiphorst ordered everyone to rest first, and during the rest time, the natives ambushed them, killing almost everybody. To describe what happened at the ambush, I will read you a paragraph from an essay I read on West Timor’s history, From ‘Timor ...
It matters only to each person who puts one foot in front of the other and then does it again. Those who keep going. * In Omote-sando, between the boutiques that line the neat streets of low buildings, the crowd dressed in identical robes, beer cans tucked down the front for ...