Like the memoirs "Marley and Me" and "Dog Years," this collection of essays probes the sometimes tumultuous, often selfless love affair between dogs and their human companions.
David L. Lander, best known for his role as Squiggy on the television sitcom LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY reveals his grueling battle with multiple sclerosis in this candid autobiography. Fearing the termination of his career, he kept his condition a secret for years. Yet, because he fell down several times in public, he developed a reputation as an ...
Peopled by eccentrics and sparkling with humor and grace, this memoir by the editor of "Tin House" magazine tracks her fathers illness and death and her fragmented familys reunion.
The essays in this volume introduce, assess and explore the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS). The contributors demonstrate how LAGS material can be used to address issues important to sociolinguists, dialectologists, and folklorists about the speech and culture of the 20th century South.
Lee Montgomery's surprising stories capture moments in women's lives when, pushed to the edge, they teeter between the complete bewilderment of loss and the lurking possibility of found. These are not stories about diets, designer jeans, and bad boyfriends; these are stories that dismantle the fabric of convention to reveal the raw interior worlds ...
Elizabeth and her father are staying at their summer cabin, with its lush fields of green grass everywhere. One night, the two of them discover that rabbits are eating the grass. Elizabeth's dad wants to get them to leave and never come back, but Elizabeth likes the rabbits, so she figures out a secret plan to keep them fed. With picturesque color ...
This dazzling tour of the animal kingdom takes you all over the globe, from tiny bugs on Himalayan peaks to hairy rhinos in the depths of the jungle. The very best of today's wildlife photography combines with lively, fascinating text to reveal the magic and wonder of the animal world.
Editor Win McCormack started "Tin House" in 1999 as an antidote to "those stuffy, staid literary magazines that go down like cough medicine." His gamble has paid off handsomely -- "Tin House" is now ranked alongside such magazines as "McSweeney's" and "The Paris Review" as one of the most important contemporary literary venues. Noted also for its ...
For the six years since its founding, "Tin House's" mission has been to create a different kind of literary magazine, one that could shake off the genre's longstanding reputation as "staid" and "elitist." In each issue "Tin House" adheres to the highest literary and artistic standards to meld the sensibility of a literary quarterly with the broad ...
The world of medieval knights in shining armor was both exciting and dangerous. Here you can see what life was like in the days when knights reigned supreme on the battlefield. Find out about the weapons they fought with and the armor they wore, from chain mail to plate metal.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Carolyn See, Kate Braverman, Harlan Ellison, Lawrence Thornton, Susan Straight, Jervey Tervalon, Jay Gummerman, Bernard Cooper, Douglas Messerli, Jim Krusoe, Ben Weissman, and Amy Gerstler contribute to this volume of stories about Los Angeles, done in cooperation with the "Santa Monica Review."
Beautifully designed and showcasing the best of both well-known writers and rising stars, "Tin House" has pulled out of the pack to gain a reputation as the most important of contemporary literary magazines. Outsider literature, like outsider art and music, has become increasingly popular in our corporatized, consumerist society. The Spring theme ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THREE They seemed an army as they advanced. But the actual count was three: a ruddy man with iron-gray hair; a middle-aged woman, handsome, but too plump for ...
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