Open Road Media imprint: 6782 books
Writers in America
The Four Seasons of Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Stories of twentieth-century American literary giants, by the man who was their friend, peer, and confidant
When he was introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald as a potential partner on a screenplay, novelist and scriptwriter Budd Schulberg was surprised the author was still alive. In Schulberg’s...
The Autobiography
An Only Child and My Father's Son
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Frank O’Connor’s acclaimed autobiography, now in one volume
When Frank O’Connor was born, his parents—Minnie O’Connor, a former maid raised in an orphanage, and Michael O’Donovan, a veteran of the Boer War and the drummer in a local brass-and-reed band—lived above a sweet-and-tobacco...
Country Editor's Boy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of High, Wide, and Lonesome and The Dog Who Came to Stay.
Country Editor’s Boy picks up where Hal Borland’s classic memoir *High, Wide and Lonesome *left off: with Borland, on the cusp...
Happy Days
My Mother, My Father, My Sister & Me
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Acclaimed 60 Minutes commentator and true-crime author Shana Alexander turns her journalist’s eye to her own unconventional family—and herself—in this fascinating, moving memoir
Shana Alexander spent most of her life trying to figure out her enigmatic parents. Milton Ager was a famous...
Collected Nonfiction
How the Good Guys Finally Won, The World According to Breslin, and The World of Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author.
In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin “leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard...
William Styron
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A “mesmerizing” biography of the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Darkness Visible (Entertainment Weekly).
William Styron was one of the most highly regarded and controversial authors of his generation. In this illuminating...
by Marcus Aurelius
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Wisdom from one of the greatest philosophical minds in all of Roman history
Divided into twelve books, these meditations chronicle Aurelius’s personal quest for self-improvement. This enduring text from one of history’s greatest warriors and leaders has been compared to St. Augustine’s...
by George Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
**A rich and evocative study of one of modern history’s most compelling and controversial philosophers by a literary and critical grand master **** **
In Martin Heidegger, George Steiner delves into the life and work of the prolific German philosopher. His deft analysis lays bare the intricacies...
This Hill, This Valley
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A memoir of a year immersed in nature on a New England farm, by the national bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay.
After a nearly fatal bout of appendicitis, Hal Borland decided to leave the city behind and move with his wife to a farmhouse in rural Connecticut. Their new home on...
Virginia Woolf
The Will to Create as a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women.
In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935,...
Kissing Cousins
A Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Hortense Calisher’s evocative memoir bristles with intelligence and youthful inquiry
Kissing Cousins recalls the author as a teenager: peppy, earnest, and a bit self-important. Hortense Calisher documents her family’s surprising history as Southern Jews adrift in New York. Finding her new...
Lord of Publishing
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
A frank and insightful memoir of a life spent in publishing, by one of literature’s most legendary agents
Sterling Lord has led an extraordinary life, from his youth in small-town Iowa to his post-war founding and editing of an English-language magazine in Paris, followed by his move to New...
Intellectual Memoirs
New York, 1936–1938
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In this no-holds-barred memoir with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick, the bestselling author of The Group recalls her early life in New York, revealing the genesis of and genius behind her groundbreaking fiction
Mary McCarthy is a married twenty-four-year-old Communist and critic when this...
Now Dig This
The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950–1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
An unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America’s wildest—and most brilliant—comedic and literary minds
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Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman
Starting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the...