Coffee And Gulls

  The sun struck, on steel, on bronze, on stone, on glass, on the grey water far beneath them, on the turret top...

A 1907 article in the Nation ... 'Taking up what had become a topical theme, the article looked back to the 1870s, running off a list...

It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistl...

Rooms, corridors, bookcases, shelves, filing cards and computerized catalogues assume that the subjects on whic...

The usual demand in such a work is that it shall be written in a "popular" style and in "popular" language--in othe...

Charles conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody’s ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no...

I too read in bed. In the long succession of beds in which I spent the nights of my childhood, in strange hotel rooms...