Knopf Group E Books imprint: 33 books
by Editors and Authors at Knopf Doubleday
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
The eBook Insider is the ultimate readers’ resource for choosing great books. The perfect first stop to make along the way as you fill your e-reader with the books that you’ll want to have in your library and recommend to friends. It’s the place to find out what some of your favorite authors...
The Reading Group Insider
Book Club "Buzz Books," Resources, and Ideas for Great Reading and Meeting
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The Reading Group Insider is a valuable resource for everything you need to know about reading groups.
If you are looking for ideas to enhance your current group's experiences, interested in joining a reading group, or starting one of your own, the suggestions within The Reading Group Insider...
by William H. Gass
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from...
The Pat Conroy Cookbook
Recipes and Stories of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conroy mixes them together with mouthwatering recipes from the Deep...
Black on White
Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?
From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black...
yes I said yes I will Yes.
A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904—Bloomsday, as it has come to be known—Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day’s journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce’s novel of the century, Ulysses*.* Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday,...
Backing Into Forward
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.
A gifted storyteller who has delighted readers and theater audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now...
Who We Are
On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond.
E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular...
Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley?
The Stars Who Made Us Rock and Where They Are Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
From the jumping rock and blues joints of the 1950s to Woodstock and beyond, Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley? takes a close look at forty-seven musicians whose unique contributions to their thrilling era will never be forgotten.
Lightning Man
The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the most illustrious American of his age.”
Silverman presents Samuel Morse in all his complexity....
by James Cagney
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can.
Chance and Circumstance
Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham...
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the 43-year-old editor of French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left him permanently paralyzed, a victim of “locked in syndrome.” Once known for his gregariousness and wit, Bauby now finds himself imprisoned in an inert body, able to communicate only...
Living a Year of Kaddish
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Ari Goldman’s exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of his community. Through the daily recitation of kaddish,...