Nan A Talese imprint: 70 books
About Women
Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women—one American and one French—on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.
Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan...
J.M.W. Turner
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was...
Marilyn & Me
A Photographer's Memories
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death, with extraordinary photographs, some of which have never been published.
"With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching...
by Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious reader. Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed into a life-long companion, reading has...
Together
A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.
When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper...
Oil on the Brain
Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.
Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought....
by A. E. Hotchner
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Twelve-year-old Aaron Broom is protecting his father’s car from repossession when he witnesses a jewelry store robbery gone wrong. To Aaron’s shock, his father, a struggling salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Aaron—precocious, plucky,...
Haunting Paris
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
**"This fine first novel explores the ways history abides in the streets and monuments of an old city, and in the human souls who love it and grieve for it and struggle to forgive it. This book is a small parable, pondering the nature of civilization itself."
--Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer...
Saul Steinberg
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River,...
Wilkie Collins
A Brief Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, two early masterpieces of mystery and detection.
Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely nearsighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colorful...
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good
The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
“There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don’t know any of them.”
In 1978, Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner decided that rather than just distribute Paul’s own salad dressing at Christmas to neighbors, they would offer it to a few local stores. Freewheeling, irreverent...
Looking for My Country
Finding Myself in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Renowned journalist and author of the international bestseller Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American.
Growing up in Halifax during World War II, it seemed to Robert MacNeil that nothing of significance ever...
by Laura Restrepo
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
From one of the most accomplished writers to emerge from Latin America, No Place for Heroes is a darkly comic novel about a mother and son who return to Buenos Aires in search of her former lover, whom she met during Argentina’s Dirty War.
During Argentina’s “Dirty War” of the late...
Dancing with the Enemy
My Family's Holocaust Secret
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The gripping story of the author’s aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author’s own past and the key to discovering his Jewish...