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Lisa Marie Presley's memoir, 'From Here to the Great Unknown,' cowritten with her daughter Riley Keough, has many wise words on Elvis, Graceland, addiction, and loss. Here are our favorites.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius received widespread critical acclaim. Time and San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the best books of 2000. [5] [6] In addition to its commercial success, the memoir was nominated for several prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2001. Critics praised the book's ...
You should rather be happy in the remembrance of our love, and in the recollection that of all men I was once the most famous and the most powerful, and now, at the end, have fallen not dishonorably, a Roman by a Roman vanquished." [8] [note 11] — Mark Antony, Roman politician and general (1 August 30 BC); to Cleopatra before his suicide
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis is a February 2022 autobiography by professor Grace Elisabeth Lavery and published by Seal Press.It chronicles her life history of transitioning and her past troubles with addiction, while also including ruminations on sexually charged absurdist material and tall tales regarding the "paradigmatic concept of the penis". [1]
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
"Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" is an article by the satirical website ClickHole, published in February 2018. The article is written in second-person , describing a situation in which the reader's archetypically hated coworker makes a logical argument during a political debate, much to the chagrin of the reader.
In his 1840 biography of Beethoven, Schindler named Julie ("Giulietta") Guicciardi as the "Immortal Beloved". [14] [g] But research by Tellenbach (1983) indicated that her cousin Franz von Brunsvik may have suggested Giulietta to Schindler, to distract any suspicion away from his sister Josephine Brunsvik, with whom Beethoven had been hopelessly in love from 1799 to ca. 1809/1810.
The book had a positive response with a 4.25 review average on Goodreads. [6] According to Kirkus Reviews, "Fittingly, Ivan narrates his tale in short, image-rich sentences and acute, sometimes humorous observations that are all the more heartbreaking for their simple delivery... Utterly believable, this bittersweet story... will inspire a new ...