4,5 stars.I'm a bit like Bob Dylan at the moment. Speechless.A wonderful collection of excellent prose. I'm not a regular non-fiction & anthologies reader. But I enormously enjoyed this collection.I saw some names that mean a lot to me, and I became curious. Russian Soviet classic in English? Why no...
Russian literature has (deservedly) a reputation for being utterly depressing and heavy—which is why it’s always a delight to find comic writers like Teffi and Isaac Babel. The humor in these authors’ stories and feuilletons is caustic and sharply observed, but still makes me smile and chuckle. This...
If you like 'em fast-paced and hard-boiled, full of dames, gamblers, booze and guns, Paul Cain is the guy and even has some Chandleresque turns of phrase which is especially remarkable considering that his prose is terser than Hammet's.
How much land does a man need? just enough to be buried in.
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