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  1. "A Brief History of Time" (1988) - Stephen Hawking's Best-Seller about the Origins of the Cosmos

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 164 views

  2. "A Worn Path" (1941) - Gripping, Enigmatic, Short-Short Story by Eudora Welty

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 65 views

  3. "Begging the Question" - What it Really Means, Once and for All

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 413 views

  4. "Ben's Chili Bowl" (2005) by Walter Irving Ray, Jr., Excerpted from "'De Colored Section"

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 2.9k views

  5. "Big Ass Comics," by Rip-Off Press and Creator Robert Crumb

    By Joe H,   
    • 6 replies
    • 2.1k views

  6. "Dune" (1965) Frank Herbert's Borderline-Legendary Science Fiction Novel

    By DanielK,   
    • 3 replies
    • 166 views

  7. "Front Row at the Trump Show" (2020) by ABC News White House Correspondent Jon Karl

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 219 views

  8. "Hinky" - A Word Gone Obsolete in One or Two Generations

    By DonRocks,   
    • 27 replies
    • 966 views

  9. "If I Was a Billionaire" (2016) by Don Rockwell

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 225 views

  10. "Koi No Yokan" - an Untranslatable Japanese Expression Describing 'The Feeling Before Love'

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 85 views

  11. "Let Us Now End American Colonialism" (1955) - Ernest Gruening's Speech to the Alaska Constitutional Convention

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 75 views

  12. "LIfe, a Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth" (1997) by Richard Fortey

    By DIShGo,   
    • 0 replies
    • 227 views

  13. "Missing Person" <<Rue des Boutiques Obscures>> (1978) - Existential Mystery Novel by 2014 Nobel Prize-Winning French Author Patrick Modiano

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 928 views

  14. "Ozymandias" (1818) - Romantic Poem about Hubris, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Antepenultimate Episode of Breaking Bad

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 212 views

  15. "Parker Looks Up - an Extraordinary Moment" - A Children's Book by Jessica and Parker Harris about her Trip to the National Portrait Gallery

    By DIShGo,   
    • 1 reply
    • 187 views

  16. "Red Sorghum" (1986) - 2012 Nobel Prize Winner Mo Yan's First Novel, a Family History Taking Place over Decades

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 318 views

  17. "Runaway" (2004) - Eight Short Stories by Alice Munro (1931-), Canadien Author and Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize For Literature 1 2

    By DonRocks,   
    • 60 replies
    • 5.6k views

  18. "Short Shorts" (1982) - An Anthology of the Absolute Shortest Stories by Irving Howe and Ilana Wiener Howe

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 360 views

  19. "Star Trek Book of Opposites" (2011) by David Borgenicht (1968-)

    By leleboo,   
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views

  20. "Sweetbitter" (2016) by Stephanie Danler - Novel About One Year as a Backwaiter at Union Square Cafe (?)

    By dcs,   
    • 4 replies
    • 535 views

  21. "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" (1996), aka "The String Theory," by David Foster Wallace

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 713 views

  22. "The Alchemist" (1988) - Brazilian Paulo Coelho's Portuguese-Language Novel - Bestseller Translated into Eighty Languages

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 596 views

  23. "The Bridge on the Drina" (1945) by Ivo Andri - Yugoslav Novelist and 1961 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 871 views

  24. "The Brooks Robinson Story" (1967) - Biography by Sportswriter Jack Zanger

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 228 views

  25. "The Laugher" (1966) - An Extremely Short, Reflective Story by Heinrich Böll

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 64 views

  26. "The Lion's Share" - What Does It Really Mean?

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 170 views

  27. "The Monkey's Paw" (1902) - Classic Supernatural Tale of "The Three Wishes," by W. W. Jacobs

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 123 views

  28. "The Remains of the Day" (1988) - Nobel Prize Author Kazuo Ichiguro's Masterpiece of Old-World Tone

    By DonRocks,   
    • 4 replies
    • 137 views

  29. "The Story of an Hour" (1894) by Kate Chopin - a Woman's Freedom, Dramatically Denied

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 206 views

  30. "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) - Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Short-Short of Psychological Self-Immolation

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 217 views

  31. "The Tin Drum" (1959) Gunter Grass' Allegorical Masterpiece about Oskar Matzerath, and One of the Most Important Novels of the Twentieth Century

    By DIShGo,   
    • 3 replies
    • 592 views

  32. "Tolkein: Maker of Middle-Earth" (Jan 25 - May 12, 2019) - The Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan

    By Tweaked,   
    • 0 replies
    • 83 views

  33. "Unbroken" (2010) - Laura Hillenbrand's Biography of Athlete and War Hero Louis Zamperini

    By DonRocks,   
    • 11 replies
    • 1.1k views

  34. "Voices from Chernobyl" (1996) - Non-Fiction Anecdotes Arranged by Belarussian Svetana Alexievich - 2015 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 276 views

  35. "War and Peace" ( Война и Mир, 1869) - Russian Author Leo Tolstoy's Legendary Novel about the Napoleonic Wars' Effects on Russia via Stories of Five Aristocratic Russian Families

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 282 views

  36. "What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" (2014) by Randall Munroe

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 65 views

  37. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1865) - by Walt Whitman

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 132 views

  38. "Who vs. Whom" towards the End of a Sentence

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 109 views

  39. "XKCD" (2005-), a Web Comic by Illustrator Randall Munroe

    By DanielK,   
    • 0 replies
    • 173 views

  40. “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” (2017) - Memoir by J. D. Vance

    By curiouskitkatt,   
    • 10 replies
    • 207 views

  41. “Paradise” (1994) - Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Bildungsroman Set in Colonized Tanzania, Taking Place Shortly before WWI

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 227 views

  42. "AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC" (1965) 2nd Edition (1974) 3rd Edition (1994) 4th Edition (2006) 5th Edition (2012) - Walking Guidebook to DC

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 600 views

  43. "Ball Four" (1970) - Jim Bouton (1939-), aka "Benedict Arnold" to Some, Betrays the Inner Secrets of Major League Baseball

    By DonRocks,   
    • 6 replies
    • 474 views

  44. "Breakfast of Champions" (1973) - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Bleak, Depressing, yet Humorous Portrait of America and Planet Earth

    By DonRocks,   
    • 20 replies
    • 1.4k views

  45. "Endurance" (1959) - Alfred Lansing's Retelling of Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Antarctic Expedition

    By DonRocks,   
    • 6 replies
    • 633 views

  46. "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)

    By DaveO,   
    • 8 replies
    • 1.3k views

  47. "Go Set A Watchman" (2015), Harper Lee's (1926-) Precursor to "To Kill A Mockingbird" - Release Date Jul 14, 2015

    By DonRocks,   
    • 15 replies
    • 2k views

  48. "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" (1965), A Campy Satirical "Novel" Written by the King of Cynics, Author Kurt Vonnegut

    By The Hersch,   
    • 0 replies
    • 345 views

  49. "Grammar Geekery" - A Washington Post Column Written by Bill Walsh 1 2

    By DonRocks,   
    • 52 replies
    • 2.3k views

  50. "Infinite Jest," (1996), A Massive, Philosophical, Science-Fiction, Black-Comedy by David Foster Wallace

    By DIShGo,   
    • 10 replies
    • 846 views
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