“He chopped a garlic, set a pot of water to boil on the stove, and poured a healthy amount of kosher salt… — Jennifer Close Copy Share Image
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
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Night is pulling me into its darkness, Ur face is all I can see when I close my eyes. I hear your… — Fad IbrA Copy Share Image
“I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. “Want a drop of this?” I asked him. No thanks. I try not… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Returning to the buffet, she helped herself to another piece of focaccia bread, the top glistening with a sheen of olive oil… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Extract from 'Quixotic Ambitions': The crowd stared at Katy expectantly. She looked at them - old women in black, exhausted young women… — Pamela Lake Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“TWO hundred and thirty nautical miles southeast of Gibraltar, Oran perched above the sea, a splinter of Europe cast onto the African… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“She will be busy writing novels. As soon as she had has gotten far enough away from this frighteningly puritanical country, her… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image