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A Literate Passion
Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller: 1932–1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1989
A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers—Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of...
Girl Sleuth
Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times).
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and...
What There Is to Say We Have Said
The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell
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
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
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...
The Pattern in the Carpet
A Personal History with Jigsaws
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This unique blend of memoir and history takes “a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles . . . charming [and] fascinating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Award-winning author Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her...
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home
Life on the Page
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
“In her keen-eyed and hilariously funny new book . . . novelist and memoirist Lynn Freed tells how writers deal with life’s large and little tribulations” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
These eleven essays combine a memoir of an exotic life, reflections on the art and craft of writing, and a...
by John Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2000
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...