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The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell

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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011

Letters revealing a lost literary world—and a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor. For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each other. They shared their worries about work and family, literary...
by Paul Theroux
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1986

This collection of wide-ranging essays from the New York Times–bestselling travel writer is “a steamer trunk full of delights” (Chicago Sun-Times). This collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, by the author of My Other Life and Kowloon Tong, transports the...

February House

The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn

by Sherill Tippins
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016

An “irresistible” account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn (The Washington Post Book World). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year February House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young...
by John Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2000

A New York Times Notable Book: A man sorts through the secret life of his troubled, reclusive brother in this “powerful, moving personal history” (Entertainment Weekly).   Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right with the world. When a grieving John Vernon was charged...
by Anaïs Nin, Joaquin Nin-Culmell
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

A revealing look at the life of this “extraordinary and unconventional writer” during the mid-1920s (The New York Times Book Review).   In this volume of her earlier series of personal diaries, Anaïs Nin tells how she exorcised the obsession that threatened her marriage—and nearly drove her...
by Anaïs Nin, Joaquin Nin-Culmell
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

The diarist’s account of her life in the early 1920s explores “the conflict she felt between artistic longings and her pre-ordained female fate” (The Detroit News).   Continuing the journey of self-education and self-discovery she began in Linotte, Anaïs Nin discloses a part of her life that...

Always the Young Strangers

The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth

by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1972

The fourth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). The renowned diarist continues her record of her personal, professional, and artistic life, recounting her experiences in Greenwich Village for several years in the late 1940s, where...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1971

The third volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).   This candid volume from the renowned diarist covers her years of struggle, and eventual triumph, as an author in America during World War II.   “Transcending mere self-revelation . . ....

William James

In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

by Robert D. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007

The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself. Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1975

The fifth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author’s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1970

The second volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). Beginning with the author’s arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin’s work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients—as well as...

Incest

From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932–1934

by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1993

The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry & June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and others—including her own father. Anaïs Nin wrote in her uncensored diaries like they were a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life....

Feeding on Dreams

Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

by Ariel Dorfman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011

“A beautifully crafted, searing memoir” about fleeing Chile after the Pinochet coup, and the exile’s yearning for home (Kirkus Reviews). “A multifaceted journey that is geographical, personal and political . . . A complex, nuanced view of United States–Latin American politics and relations...
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