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Short Takes

Author : Judith Kitchen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393326004
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Short Takes written by Judith Kitchen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invigorating creative nonfiction—short, but never slight—gathered by the co-editor of In Short and In Brief. In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss—and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well-known writers—Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, and Terry Tempest Williams—along with Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, Jane Brox, and others whose literary stars are clearly rising. Each short—whether a few paragraphs or reaching 2,000 words, and reflecting almost every way nonfiction can be written—invites us to experience the power of the small to move, persuade, and change us.

Brief Encounters

Author : Shane Allison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1573446645
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Shane Allison and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of the very best, hottest and most creative 'quickie' erotica available on the market. Not your typical one-night-stand stories, the tales in Brief Encounters are intriguing, thrilling, unique and always surprising. Shane Allison is quickly becoming one of the top writers and editors of gay erotica and his anthologies are always fresh, edgy and bold. The 60 gay quickies collected in Brief Encounters may be short in length - but they go a very long way indeed!

Bermuda Shorts

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Santa Fe Writer's Project
ISBN 13 : 9780982625125
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Bermuda Shorts written by James Patterson and published by Santa Fe Writer's Project. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In clothing, Bermuda Shorts are a kind of casual formal wear – and in this collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts is the perfect metaphor for James J. Patterson’s fundamentally serious but playful literary style. Patterson writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Mary Karr, with all the contradictions that implies — a philosopher who thinks best over a glass of fine wine; an ex-Catholic still haunted by the image of the Crucifixion; an irreverent political satirist whose patriotism flies the flag of another iconoclast, Thomas Paine. Patterson grew up with a foot planted in each of two worlds — one in Washington DC, the Capital of the Empire as he calls it, where the wheels of power spin, and one in rural Ontario, where his Canadian mother insisted the family spend their summers. His father, one of the wizards of twentieth century newspaper publishing, introduced him to the city’s wheels of money and power, which he would later navigate as an entrepreneur, starting his first business at 20. But those Canadian summers introduced him to a different world – one where a cedar strip boat was better than any car, and where the ghosts of those who'd previously inhabited the family’s island house floated out over the water of Lovesick Lake. It is those two worlds that blend in this collection, in reflections both serious and playful, on what it means to be a man, an artist, an iconoclast, a patriot, a lover, as the 20th century rolls over into the 21st.

Best Shorts

Author : Avi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618476039
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Best Shorts written by Avi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See:

Catalogue

Author : Montgomery Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1218 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by Montgomery Ward and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Brief History of Shorts

Author : Joe Boxer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788159756
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Shorts written by Joe Boxer and published by . This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the mysteries & secrets of boxer shorts & much, much more in this slightly questionable history of underwear by the clothing that brought you the "happy face" boxer. Appearing in book form for the first time is an amazing array of information (& maybe exaggeration) about skivvies, with more than 150 photographs & outrageous illustrations that provide the low-down on men's underwear -- past, present, & future. Includes an underwear personality quiz & a special mix-&-match flip section. Packed with astounding tidbits, memorable quotations, & useful how-to diagrams in a playful melange of fact & fantasy.

My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?

Author : G. B. Trudeau
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740797816
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts? written by G. B. Trudeau and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hilarious!" -- Jake Tapper, ABC News "Hilarious!" -- Karen Tumulty, TIME "Hilarious!" -- Erin Moriarity, CBS News In March of 2009, Doonesbury's intrepid journalist Roland Burton Hedley, III, opened a Twitter account and began to tweet. A lot. Four weeks later, a sampling of his 140-character missives was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim, and his posts were featured in a one-on-one "tweet-off" in the Columbia Journalism Review. Rushed into print, this groundbreaking volume is the first book-length Twitter collection by a single author. With dozens of Doonesbury strips and over 500 tweets, it presents the best of Hedley's work -- frontline micro-blogging from the self-anointed dean of Washington journotwits. Eight months into this project, author G.B. Trudeau can confirm that Twitter is a colossal sinkhole of time, but is gratified that he has found a way to monetize Roland's inane postings. (Follow Roland_Hedley.) When not writing comedy haiku on Twitter, Trudeau writes and draws the Pulitzer-prize-winning comic strip Doonesbury for 1100 newspapers worldwide, and lovingly curates his web presence at Doonesbury.com. He also hosts a milblog called The Sandbox. From the book: "Just spotted colleague Terry Moran in hall. Could wave, but easier to tweet. Hey, dude." 10:49 AM Mar 18th from Tweetdeck "Bumped into an old stalker of mine at Borders. She'd lost some weight and looked terrific, but I tweeted 911 anyway. Cops arrived from 3 states." 1:43 PM Mar7th from Blackberry "I refuse to apologize for making time for my kid's ball games, so I usually end up not going." 9:13 AM May 4th from web "Had close call watching MJ memorial service. They ended 'We are the World' before I could jimmy open my gun closet and blow my brains out." 12:33 PM Jul 7th from web "While speaking last night, someone threw panties on stage. Or boxers. Whatever. Times like that, always ask myself: What would The Boss do?" 5:13 PM Mar 12th from web "Kabul. Awakened by huge blast in hotel lobby. Suicide bomber blew up complimentary breakfast buffet. Off to find bagel." 3:14 PM Apr 8th from Tweetdeck "Accompanying HMMV patrol, used on-board computer to order Ab Rocket. And because I acted when I did, receiving second one absolutely free." 8:01 PM Apr 13th from Blackberry

Short

Author : Alan Ziegler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892554324
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Short written by Alan Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.

Loud Sparrows

Author : Aili Mu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231138499
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Loud Sparrows written by Aili Mu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If sparrows are but a metaphor, every writer faces the challenge of reality, which is to say, how one catches this sparrow." So writes Bei Dao in his preface to Loud Sparrows, a spirited collection of ninety-one short-shorts, an exciting new form of extreme short-storytelling that has swept the creative consciousness of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The artistic and aesthetic freedoms of short-shorts enable writers to capture the tone, texture, and chaos of their rapidly changing societies in infinitely inventive ways. Written by Chinese authors over the past three decades, the stories in this anthology are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections, and their subjects range from humanist ideals and traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society.

In Short

Author : Judith Kitchen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393039603
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book In Short written by Judith Kitchen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 90 brief nonfiction pieces with the works arranged so that a common theme connects one piece to the next.

Athletic Shorts

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196834X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Athletic Shorts written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These six powerful short stories chronicle bits of the lives of characters, major and minor, who have walked the rugged terrain of Chris Crutcher's earlier works. They also introduce some new and unforgettable personalities who may well be heard from again in future books. As with all Crutcher's work, these are stories about athletes, and yet they are not sport stories. They are tales of love and death, bigotry and heroism, of real people doing their best even when that best isn't very good. Crutcher's straightforward style and total honesty have earned him an admiring audience and made readers of many nonreaders.

The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History

Author : Thomas J. Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843146
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History written by Thomas J. Barfield and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain the difficulties besetting this newest experiment. Princeton Shorts are brief selections taken from influential Princeton University Press books and produced exclusively in ebook format. Providing unmatched insight into important contemporary issues or timeless passages from classic works of the past, Princeton Shorts enable you to be an instant expert in a world where information is everywhere but quality is at a premium.

How to Write Short

Author : Roy Peter Clark
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 031620434X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book How to Write Short written by Roy Peter Clark and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In How to Write Short, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, How to Write Short guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.

Catalog

Author : Sears, Roebuck and Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog written by Sears, Roebuck and Company and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316086894
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men written by David Foster Wallace and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.

A Brief History of Shorts

Author : Boxer Joe
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780811893480
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Shorts written by Boxer Joe and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crinkle Shorts

Author : Little Foxy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312506377
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Crinkle Shorts written by Little Foxy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From holiday parties and cozy nights at home to discovering new worlds or long days at the office, incorrigible road racers to that vacation that just refuses to work out as planned, Crinkle Shorts explores the possibilities of the world of Babyfurs and Furry AB\DL relationships in all its diapered goodness. So settle down with your favorite plushie, kick up your paws, and let me tell you a story...