… need to dredge the gulf to get it all back, including the bodies,” she says. “Including the bodies.” It’s nearly … can’t afford what the city charges for demolition.” She points to an empty lot beside her house. “If you wait long … casino that operated just off the Mississippi coast in 1926—the Isle of Caprice, formerly Dog Key Island. We speak …
… hair when she wept. That evening had been unpleasant again, comfortless, with her father scolding and scornfully crying …
Plays
… (Eva exits as Fred draws on the cigarette and lights come up on Bill Perch’s motel room.) End of Scene One Rosy … the bathroom. Sound of water rushing. Rosy turns to the audience. The end of Scene Two flows directly into … the highway. (Perch exits. Fred walks to Rosy’s table and points at the Baked Alaska. Eva enters and watches Fred.) …
Essays
… your life. I worked for a small independent oil and gas company, which was owned by a wealthy individual who drilled … in the world, which in no way care whether America lives or dies, is free or captive, healthy or poisoned—have long … on a mission. I picked up the well logs, put them in my briefcase, climbed out through the window, and continued down …
… quite striking. They were both born in 1899, and Hemingway died four years after Bogart. They belonged to prominent, upper-class families, which had come from Northern Europe to America in the 17th century, … violence of the movie racketeers. One of the criminals in Hemingway’s “The Killers” (1925) “wore a derby hat …
… a part of the crop of Mr. Thoreau, and that extraordinary compound of cornmeal and water, which he facetiously … in Walden, it is more than that. The epic of the bean field also shows off Thoreau in literary high spirits, playfully … he to decide, Thoreau asks, who should live and who should die? “These beans have results which are not harvested by …