Open Road Media imprint: 6782 books
Becoming a Man
Half a Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. “One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life” (LA Weekly).
Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid...
Don't Panic
Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “hilarious . . . idiosyncratic . . . delightful” and definitive companion to a global phenomenon (Publishers Weekly).
Douglas Adams’s “six-part trilogy,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding...
Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One
Blue Thirst, Sicilian Carousel, and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Travel writing “as luminous as the Mediterranean air” from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in PBS’s The Durrells in Corfu (Time).
Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt...
With William Burroughs
A Report from the Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A trove of intimate conversations between Burroughs and Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, David Bowie, and more icons of ’70s New York and beyond.
During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City’s Lower East Side....
Candy Darling
Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A look into what moved Andy Warhol’s greatest muse
Located at 33 Union Square West in the heart of New York City’s pulsing downtown scene, Andy Warhol’s Factory was an artistic anomaly. Not simply a painter’s studio, it was the center of Warhol’s assembly-line production of films,...
The Book of Joe
About a Dog and His Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In the tradition of Anna Quindlen’s Good Dog. Stay., the iconic star of the Dr. Phibes films shares the heartwarming tale of his mischievous mutt.
Actor Vincent Price won acclaim for his performances as a menacing villain in dozens of macabre horror films, such as House of Wax. Less well...
by Patrick Gale
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
An intimate biography of the gay icon whose Tales of the City changed America’s understanding of LGBT culture during the 1970s and ’80s.
Step into Armistead Maupin’s house, and you will be greeted by a strapping young gardener, a wave of marijuana smoke, and the most gracious host in...
Madame Blavatsky
The Woman Behind the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The life and times of Helena Blavatsky, the controversial religious guru who cofounded the Theosophical Society and kick-started the New Age movement.
Recklessly brilliant, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky scandalized her 19th century world with a controversial new religion that tried to synthesize...
A Common Good
The Friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An illuminating account of the history-making friendship between RFK and the chief of staff to JFK—a bond built on shared ideals, but severed by tragedy.
When they first met at Harvard in 1946, young Bobby Kennedy and Kenny O’Donnell could not have imagined where their lives would take...
Killing the Dream
James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A deep dive into James Earl Ray’s role in the national tragedy: “Superb . . . a model of investigation . . . as gripping as a first-class detective story” (The New York Times).
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, by a single assassin’s bullet....
by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The intimate and revealing memoir of the woman behind the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles and a fascinating window into the British literary world.
One of Britain’s most famous and beloved authors, Elizabeth Jane Howard’s life was as rich, varied, and passionate as the characters in her novels....
The Water Is Wide
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
New York Times Bestseller: The “miraculous” memoir of an inspiring teacher and the students who changed his life on an impoverished South Carolina island (Newsweek).
Though the children of Yamacraw Island live less than two miles from the southern mainland, they can’t name the US president...
by Nellie Bly
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A courageous female journalist’s classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century America
In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s...
The Motion of Light in Water
Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
This Hugo Award–winning memoir is “a very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer” (William Gibson, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Neuromancer).
With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the...