… writing more or less naturally. As, for example, you might come to swimming early and easily. Which, matter of fact, I … backhand and a truly devastating and deadly forehand. He also had a quality possessed by one of his tennis heroes, … in a blizzard.) Oliver Garrett was a much decorated soldier from the Great War; newspaper reporter for the old New …
… differences in the critical opinion of Fitzgerald, and the commonly held belief that he died a “failure,” the fact remains that his books still sell … pursuits. When Fitzgerald began writing professionally, he also kept a Ledger , still intact, which states his yearly …
Fiction
… boy maintained meticulous notes in a Roaring Spring marble composition pad he’d procured at the Snake’s Haven Five & … or Willa Mae or Romie, the founders of the Laundry Lane Ladies Cooperative, performed impromptu ceremonial old-ways … laundromats in San Francisco, the women of Laundry Lane also lived with the reality that laundry transactions were …
Poetry
… Territory All day I’ve followed roads. Have I come that far? Terre Haute, Greencastle. Kokomo’s not close, …
… in university English departments, and eventually its audience spread to sophisticated circles outside the academy, … English at Birkbeck College, London, where he taught from 1926 to 1938. For a time, at least, Potter took his job as an … his joke to include areas other than sports, where scoring points through mastery of the symbols of status comes into …
… The Eloquence of Fact Coming into the Country. By John McPhee. Farrar, Straus & … Seattle and Alaska. He has written children’s books, parodies, poetry, book reviews, political commentary, taglines … “Once More to the Lake”). Essays is based largely on The Points of My Compass, a book that in some respects rivals …