Roger Rosenblatt: 13 books
The Boy Detective
A New York Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as "a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing," and People lauded Kayak Morning as "intimate, expansive and profoundly moving." Classic tales of love and grief, the New York Times bestselling memoirs are also original...
by Roger Rosenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
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Beet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Roger Rosenblatt’s dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display....Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary,or our most audacious visionary comic?”—Joyce Carol Oates
Beet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led...
Kayak Morning
Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the solace of solitude, and the redemptive power of love
In Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months...
Where We Stand
30 Reasons for Loving Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
In these 30 essays, Roger Rosenblatt draws on his 27 years of reporting and commenting on America to reaffirm the core values of our complex and wonderful country. Famous for his ability to put wise and important ideas into witty and instructive prose, the prize-winning journalist and commentator...
The Book of Love
Improvisations on a Crazy Little Thing
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love.
In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations—romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak,...
Unless It Moves the Human Heart
The Craft and Art of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist, essayist,...
Anything Can Happen
Notes on My Inadequate Life and Yours
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2004
A look at the human comedy from a prize-winning writer who is “bright, funny and tells it like it is” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
In this insightful collection, an accomplished essayist and humorist offers a class in “Tyranny for Beginners;” warns about the snares of dinner parties; explains...
Rules for Aging
A Wry and Witty Guide to Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Rule #1: It doesn’t matter. One of USA Today’s Best Self-Help Books of the Year: “Hilarious.” —People
Prize-winning essayist Roger Rosenblatt has commented on some of the most important trends and events of our time in insightful columns in Time and discerning commentaries on PBS**Newshour...
Making Toast
A Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
“A painfully beautiful memoir….Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.”
—E. L. Doctorow
A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and playwright, Roger Rosenblatt...
Desayuno en familia
Cuando solo las pequeñas cosas de la vida nos hacen seguir adelante.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2012
El autor de esta formidable memoria describe cómo a través de la rutina consiguió superar la muerte repentina de su hija a los 38 años. Él y su mujer decidieron recuperar su rol de padres e irse a vivir con sus tres nietos &ndash eurosJessica, de siete años, Sammy, de cinco, y Bubbies, de...
Thomas Murphy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy—a paean to the mystery, tragedy and wonder of life.
Trying his best to weasel out of an appointment with the neurologist...
Lapham Rising
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Harry March is something of a wreck and more than half nuts. Up until now, he has lived peacefully on an island in the Hamptons with his talking dog, Hector, a born-again Evangelical and unapologetic capitalist. But March’s life starts to completely unravel when Lapham—an ostentatious multimillionaire...