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Out of the Woods
A Memoir of Wayfinding
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love: Lynn Darling’s powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods.
When her college-bound daughter leaves home,...
The Grand Tour
Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. In this fascinating travelogue of the prolific author's yearlong trip around the British Empire in 1922, Christie provides the clues to the origins of the plots and locales of some of her bestselling...
Manhood for Amateurs
The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
A Best Book Of The Year
Time • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Seattle Times
A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work...
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking...
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me
An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal, and an Extraordinary Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Like The Bolter and Portrait of a Marriage, this beguiling, heady tale of a scandalous ménage à trois among England's upper classes combines memoir and biography to re-create an unforgettably decadent world.
Among the glittering stars of British society, Sofka Zinovieff's grandparents lived...
Pain, Parties, Work
Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
"I dreamed of New York, I am going there."
On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six...
by Adam Begley
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Updike is Adam Begley’s masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike—a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.
In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating...
Not Just Jane
Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“Not Just Jane restores seven of England’s most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer’s story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote.”
**—**Dr. Amanda...
Sunshine State
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A *New York Times*Critics’ Best Books of the Year ***• *An NPR Best Book of the Year *• *A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year *• *A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year *• *An Entrophy Magazine...
Liberation
Diaries: 1970-1983
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970–1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's...
Pops
Fatherhood in Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood.
For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon,...
Scott Fitzgerald
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and disappointment.
This book, by the acclaimed...
Writing Past Dark
Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
"In the spirit of Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Friedman...gives heartfelt counsel to those who need to be coaxed into the creative process." — Washington Post
Writing Past Dark charts the emotional side of the writer's life. It is a writing companion to reach for when you feel...
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making
More Stories and Secrets from Agatha Christie's Notebooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
John Curran reveals the secrets of the world’s greatestmystery writer in Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making, the fascinating follow up to Agatha Christie’s SecretNotebooks featuring moreinsight into Christie’s captivating life story and a new windfall ofChristie’s unpublished work—including...