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Bliss and Other Stories (short stories) by Katherine Mansfield The Magician by Colm Tóibín Elsewhere Home (short stories) by Leila Aboulela Passage to India by E.M. Forster A Swim in a Pond of Rain (on Chekhov stories) by George Saunders Why Read Moby-Dick? (on Moby-Dick) by Nathaniel Philbrick The Novel of the Century (on Les(…)
Chanel’s Riviera by Anne De Courcy Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling Pianos and Flowers (short stories) by Alexander McCall Smith Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk Trains and Lovers (interlocking stories) by Alexander McCall Smith The Black Monk and other stories (short stories) by Anton Chekhov Real Estate by Deborah(…)
Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selina Hastings A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey by Sybille Bedford Fifty-two Stories (short stories) by Anton Chekhov Other People’s Love Affairs (short stories) by D. Wystan Owen Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, I.A. Bunin Reading Chekhov by Janet Malcolm Ernest Hemingway: The Short(…)
The Graybar Hotel (short stories) by Curtis Dawkins Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird Flights (fragments) by Olga Tokarczuk Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy The Diamond Dog (poems) by Diane Wakowski Bowie’s Bookshelf: a Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie’s Life by John O’Connell Realms of Gold: The Letters and Poems of John Keats(…)
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good (stories) by Helene Tursten How to Pronounce Knife (stories) by Souvankham Thammavongsa Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Thirteen Ways of looking (stories) by Colum McCann Sorry for your trouble (stories) by Richard Ford The Beach by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker Your Duck is My Duck(…)
The Small House in Allington by Anthony Trollope Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré Lemon Red by Cralan Kelder Sometimes you have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh by Leslie Brody Call for the Dead by John le Carre Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill Troubles by J.G.Farrell (…)
Second email: Viewed on the morning of 11/24/2020. Have not mentioned its content to a living soul. Not only due to the warning therein, but because a) chances are it’s a ruse, b) I don’t want to worry anyone. (If it’s the end, its the end.) Have, however, contacted the FBI online in which a(…)
In the Ravine and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov A Delicate Truth by John le Carre The Kiss and the Duel by Anton Chekhov A Way in the World by V.S. Naipaul In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Plain Tales(…)
In Morocco by Edith Wharton The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene The Third Man by Graham Greene Arabs by Tim Mackintosh-Smith The Longest Journey by E.M.Forster No Room in the Arc by Alan Moorehead One’s Company by Peter Fleming A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz Smoke by Ivan Turgenev The(…)
