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My Soul Looks Back
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone” (New York magazine)—in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.
In...
I, Rock Chump
An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Pop, this essay is about pop music conventions.
Chuck Klosterman on Rock
A Collection of Previously Published Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur, these essays are now available in this ebook collection for fans of Klosterman’s writing on rock music.
Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Rock, this essay is about the White Stripes.
52 McGs.
The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Reporter Robert McG. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Among his devoted fans, his pieces were known simply as McGs. With a "genius for illuminating that sometimes ephemeral apogee in people's lives when they prove capable of generating a brightly burning spark" (Columbia Journalism Review), Robert McG. Thomas Jr. commemorated fascinating, unconventional...
Brothers
On His Brothers and Brothers in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
G E O R G E H OW E C O L T ’ S The Big House is, as the New Yorker said, “full of surprises and contains more than seems possible: a family memoir, a brief history of the Cape, an investigation of nostalgia, a study of class, and a meditation on the privileges and burdens of the past.” Colt’s...
New York Night
The Mystique and Its History
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Who among us cannot testify to the possibilities of the night? To the mysterious, shadowed intersections of music, smoke, money, alcohol, desire, and dream? The hours between dusk and dawn are when we are most urgently free, when high meets low, when tongues wag, when wallets loosen, when uptown,...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence.
In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the...
Four Sisters of Hofei
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin.
Now in their late eighties and early nineties,...
Taking The Streets to the Music
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Pop, this essay is about The Streets.
Remote Feed
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
“Gilbert’s dead-on mimicry of conversational rhythms makes even the most ludicrous exchanges sound plausible, and he applies physical details sparingly and potently…wickedly funny.” —Adam Goodheart, The New York Times Book Review
The masterfully crafted stories that comprise Remote...
Five Interesting Corpses
Essays from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture, this essay is about dead people.
by Arnold Scaasi
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A fascinating read of personal experiences from the famed fashion designer that showcases the lives and contributions of iconic women -- from Jackie Kennedy to Elizabeth Taylor to Laura Bush to Princess Diana
Arnold Scaasi has been dressing legends for almost five decades. His enduring tenure...
Bonds vs. America
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about Barry Bonds.