http://hamesha.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/chekhov/ vignettes تکه پاره ها Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:16:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://hamesha.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/chekhov/#comment-982 the race « Hamesha Thu, 28 May 2009 09:55:33 +0000 http://hamesha.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/chekhov/#comment-982 [...] upon a time when i was still in watan and my sole literary companion was a collection of 54 translated short stories, i read this story by one w. somerset maugham (i [...] [...] upon a time when i was still in watan and my sole literary companion was a collection of 54 translated short stories, i read this story by one w. somerset maugham (i [...]

]]> http://hamesha.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/chekhov/#comment-33 Book Treats « Hamesha Tue, 01 May 2007 05:07:14 +0000 http://hamesha.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/chekhov/#comment-33 [...] Today I treated myself to two books: Francine Prose’s ‘Reading Like a Writer,’ and a collection of Chekhov’s short stories, ‘The Portable Chekhov.’ No, this was not a spree of impulsive buying, even though I had gone to Borders only to read my gift copy of David Mitchel’s Number9Dream that I have been reading on and off for the past week (or by one account, for the past two years, since it was first assigned as course reading material which of course I skipped in favor of other non-classroom reading material.) I had meant to buy Prose’s book as early as when I sat my eyes upon it earlier in the year, and Chekhov’s collection (that has been my virtual companion for the past five years on loan from my college library and the community library here) as early as this post. [...] [...] Today I treated myself to two books: Francine Prose’s ‘Reading Like a Writer,’ and a collection of Chekhov’s short stories, ‘The Portable Chekhov.’ No, this was not a spree of impulsive buying, even though I had gone to Borders only to read my gift copy of David Mitchel’s Number9Dream that I have been reading on and off for the past week (or by one account, for the past two years, since it was first assigned as course reading material which of course I skipped in favor of other non-classroom reading material.) I had meant to buy Prose’s book as early as when I sat my eyes upon it earlier in the year, and Chekhov’s collection (that has been my virtual companion for the past five years on loan from my college library and the community library here) as early as this post. [...]

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