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The Way the World Works
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Nicholson Baker, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years.
The Way the World Works, Baker’s second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what...
The Gospel of Trees
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In an “eye-opening memoir” (People) “as beautiful as it is discomfiting” (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.
Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary’s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who...
No Heroes
A Memoir of Coming Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer comes the unforgettable memoir No Heroes. “If you haven’t read Chris Offutt, you’ve missed an accomplished and compelling writer” (Chicago Tribune).
In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt...
Casanova
The World of a Seductive Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining” (Huffington Post)—the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe.
Today, “Casanova”...
Lighting Out for the Territory
How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn can’t stand it—he’s been there before.
It’s...
Wild Things
The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful—and “consistently intelligent and funny” (The New York Times Book Review)—ramble through classic children’s literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father of two) Bruce Handy.
The dour New England Primer, thought to be the first...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for...
Contested Will
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable...
The Bill from My Father
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Bernard Cooper's new memoir is searing, soulful, and filled with uncommon psychological nuance and laugh-out-loud humor. Like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, Cooper's account of growing up and coming to terms with a bewildering father is a triumph of contemporary autobiography.
Edward Cooper...
Have Dog, Will Travel
A Poet's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.
Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind—but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught...
Literary Life
A Second Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
• A critically acclaimed memoirist: McMurtry’s nonfiction works, including his most recent memoir, Books , have received rave reviews from readers and critics alike. In this follow-up to Books , McMurtry explores the trials and triumphs of being a writer. .
• Writing from the other side...
Generation of Swine
The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.
Here, against a...
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This “lively biography” (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a powerful feminist pioneer.
Julia Ward (1819-1910) was an heiress who married a handsome accomplished doctor who worked with the blind and deaf. But Samuel Howe wasted her inheritance, mistreated...
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.
What were the talents...