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Pauline Kael
A Life in the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
**“A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential movie critics.”—Los Angeles Times
“Engrossing and thoroughly researched.”—Entertainment Weekly
• A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2011 •
The...
Jane Austen
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early...
Dante
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and...
The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire
A Tejano Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A family's epic origins in the hinterlands of Mexico that became Texas-and earlier, in Iberia
In his acclaimed 1999 memoir Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, John Phillip Santos told the story of one Mexican family- his father's-set within the larger story of Mexico itself. In...
The Rest of Us
Dispatches from the Mother Ship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
For ten years of Sunday mornings, readers of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s newspaper column, “The Rest of Us,” have been calling their mothers, boyfriends, and sisters to say, “See? That’s exactly what I meant!” Mitchard’s clear-eyed takes on everyday life in process are described over and over...
Island of Blood
Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Other South Asian Flashpoints
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
In this distillation of frontline experiences and cultural insights, Anita Pratap, one of the finest journalists India has ever produced, faithfully reports on the consequences of war, ethnic conflict, earthquakes, cyclones, prejudices, and the mindless hatred and fear that has hurt so much of the...
Missing Men
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
From the author of Minor Characters, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award – an “intricate and compelling” (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir that chronicles her childhood and her two ill-fated marriages
Joyce Johnson’s classic memoir of growing up female in the 1950s, Minor...
I Celebrate Myself
The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's...
The Kite and the String
How to Write with Spontaneity and Control--and Live to Tell the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher
“A book-length master class.” —The Atlantic
Writing well does not result from...
Here and Now
Letters 2008-2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
**“[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It’s a pleasure to be in their company.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available...
Marcel Proust
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive...
by Penelope Lively
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life
Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards...
Socrates
A Man for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy.
Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very last moment alive, Socrates fully embodied his philosophy in thought and deed. It...
by G. I. Gurdjieff
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1991
Meetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff’s autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive “read” in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff’s unique perspective on...