Henry Carter Hull

Lector, buscador de historias, conocedor y centinela de la lengua, amante del mar y los recuerdos, crítico y doliente de un país cuya mayor miseria es la corrupción, pero sobre todo un gran narrador, eso es Juan Gossaín, autor de las crónicas que se compilan en este libro. Se trata de escritos magistrales y sin sesgos que retratan la realidad colombiana, rescatan sus pintorescos personajes e historias, y denuncian a los corruptos, causantes de...

Seriously, this guy is funny. Thomas Walton's new book, Life As We Know It (Some Assembly Required) was 15 years in the making, but fans of Walton's regular humor commentary in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade insist it was worth the wait. His witty examinations of everything life throws at us, from potholes to politicians to COVID, have been appearing in the Sunday Blade since 2007. They are a rarity on the editorial pages of America's newspapers because...

Libro de reflexiones, dedicado a la memoria de mis padres. Luchando con el otro infierno que está dentro de cada uno de nosotros. El bicho hombre es un ser doble en el cual uno de los dos lados se divierte atormentando y el otro pasa todo el tiempo defendiéndose, mientras el tiempo discretamente pasa y los evita a ambos. Pero es más complicado dejar de oirse cuando nos comprendemos. Es complicado intentar convencer a una persona de que está errada...

El libro documenta el encuentro que tuvo lugar en el año 1882. Pero también los textos que le anteceden y le siguen a lo largo de una década. El intercambio espiritual y amistoso entre Nietzsche y Rée en los años anteriores a su encuentro con Lou v. Salomé coincide con una fase de la evolución de Nietzsche que él mismo ha llamado su «librepensamiento». Nietzsche manifestó que Lou v. Salomé le hizo frente en sus respuestas. Lou v. Salomé...

"Mexicana" es el homenaje personalísimo, ameno y original de Manuel Arroyo-Stephens a México y a su abrumadora capital, a su pasado y su presente, a sus sabores, olores y colores, a sus cielos, tierras y mares, y sobre todo a sus personajes, propios y adoptivos, con quienes el autor tuvo la suerte de cruzarse durante los años que vivió entre México y España. En este texto a caballo entre las memorias, la crónica y el dietario, el lector descubrirá...

As she battles debilitating illnesses, May Sarton looks back on her life, cherishes new and old friendships, and finds hope in the brave new world of old age "I always imagined a journal that would take me through my seventy-ninth year," May Sarton writes, "the doors opening out from old age to unknown efforts and surprises." Instead of musing calmly on the philosophical implications of aging, the writer found herself spending most of her energy battling...

"Unlike me, life isn't always pretty," says Tiffany Spratt--a cheerleader destined for fame who will do " anything " to get there Tiffany is " definitely " glad that the best-looking boy in the universe just transferred to her high school. Her boyfriend, Wally, got caught hacking into the Pentagon's computer system and was sent to boarding school, so she almost didn't have a date for the Homecoming dance! But Tiffany knows that she'll look " fabulous...

An intimate and uplifting memoir chronicling May Sarton's efforts to regain her health, art, and sense of self after suffering from a stroke Feeling cut off and isolated-from herself most of all-after suffering a stroke at age 73, May Sarton began a journal that helped her along the road to recovery. She wrote every day without fail, even if illness sometimes prevented her from penning more than a few lines.   From her sprawling house off the coast...

For more than fifty-five years Ralph Waldo Emerson kept a journal, recording his thoughts on books, authors, and religion, among other subjects. In this engrossing volume editor Perry Bliss presents the best from these journals, carefully selecting passages to create both a revealing portrait of this formidable thinker and a social and historical record of the era in which he lived.

A classic up-close memoir of fighting in the chaos of World War I. Today, we may have an orderly historical picture of the Great War. But for a soldier like Henri Desagneaux, there was no pattern to be seen from the trenches, where he executed orders ensuring that dozens of men had to die attempting to achieve impossible objectives worked out at a headquarters in the rear. His diary, one of the classic French accounts of the conflict, gives a vivid...