Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group: 7208 books
Musorgsky and His Circle
A Russian Musical Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The emergence of Russian classical music in the nineteenth century in the wake of Mikhail Glinka comprises one of the most remarkable and fascinating stories in all musical history. The five men who came together in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg in the 1860s, all composers of talent, some...
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.
Those Wild Wyndhams
Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world; their...
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...
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...
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,...
Reading Rilke
Reflections on the Problems of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.
After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke...
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian . . . a novelist’s appreciation of the surreal.” —Los Angeles Times...
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...
by Chuck Palahniuk
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of...
A Star for Mrs. Blake
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April Smith breathes...