Open Road: 9207 books
The Art of Corporate Success
The Story of Schlumberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A revealing portrait of one of the world’s finest, yet most opaque, companies—and the quiet genius who made it thrive
Ken Auletta set out to locate one of the world’s most prosperous businesses and explain its formula for success. He searched for an enterprise with a vivid chief executive...
Gluck
Her Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Diana Souhami’s critically acclaimed biography of lesbian painter Hannah Gluckstein—the woman, the artist, the legend
To her family, Hannah Gluckstein was known as Hig. To Edith Shackleton Heald, the journalist with whom she lived for almost forty years, she was Dearest Grub. And to the...
Beat Punks
New York’s Underground Culture from the Beat Generation to the Punk Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The “poet laureate of the New York underground scene” chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression
Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, by the 1970s and ’80s, New York City’s creative scene had given way to a punk rock–era...
by Catherine O'Sullivan Shorr
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Catherine O’Sullivan Shorr sheds light on the infamous Silver Factory’s final years in the conclusion of this exhilarating, uncensored oral history
The late 1960s brought seismic shifts to Andy Warhol and life at the Silver Factory. The hub of his avant-garde scene shifted from the Factory...
Chanel
A Woman of Her Own
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A fascinating look at the real Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, the designer who forever revolutionized the way women look. She was a free spirit, brilliant business woman, and beauty who never found reciprocated love. Madsen, with authority, delves into this fashion doyenne’s business and private lives...
Welcome to the Silver Factory
The Birth of the Pop Art Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The 1st installment in a 3-part oral history, Welcome to the Silver Factory introduces the members of Andy Warhol’s inner circle and their dazzling world of art, parties, drugs, and drama
In the 1st volume of this fascinating oral history based on her documentary Andy Warhol’s Factory...
Famous for 15 Minutes
My Years with Andy Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
One of Andy Warhol’s superstars recalls the birth of an art movement—and the death of an icon
In this audacious tell-all memoir, Ultra Violet, born Isabelle Collin Dufresne, relives her years with Andy Warhol at the Factory and all of the madness that accompanied the sometimes-violent delivery...
Silk Roads
The Asian Adventures of Clara and André Malraux
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
One of the greatest art theft stories of the 20th century: André Malraux, French novelist, art theorist, and eventually France’s Minister of Cultural Affairs, and his wife, Clara, traveled to Cambodia in 1923, planning to steal and smuggle artifacts out of the country and sell them in America....
Andy Warhol's Factory People
Welcome to the Silver Factory, Speeding into the Future, and Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Based on the television documentary: A three-part oral history of the Pop Art sensation’s inner circle and their dazzling world of art, drugs, and drama.
Featuring a new introduction by the author, special to this collection, this three-part companion volume to Emmy Award–winning Catherine...
Setting the Tone
Essays and a Diary
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A sterling collection of essays, commentary, reviews, and personal recollections on art, love, and the musical life, from Ned Rorem, award-winning composer and author extraordinaire
Ned Rorem, the acclaimed American composer and writer, displays his incisive, sometimes outrageous genius for...
Critical Affairs
A Composer's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Acclaimed composer Ned Rorem delights and provokes with a fearless collection of vivid memories, critiques, and musings on life, music, and his world
Pulitzer Prize–winning American composer Ned Rorem has been lauded for his art songs, symphonies, operas, and other orchestral works. With...
An Absolute Gift
A New Diary
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A magnificent collection of essays, opinions, and reflections on life, culture, art, love, and music—always lyrical, witty, and brazenly provocative—from one of the most acclaimed contemporary American composers
Time magazine has called Ned Rorem “the world’s best composer of art songs.”...
by Gloria Steinem, George Barris
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This national bestselling biography is the insightful and uniquely sensitive account of the iconic 1950s sex symbol from the feminist author and activist.
Few books have altered the perception of a celebrity as much as Marilyn. Gloria Steinem reveals that behind the familiar sex symbol lay...
American Gothic
The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family—Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A New York Times–bestselling author’s “lively” account of a family of famous actors—who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln (The New Yorker).
Junius Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, were nineteenth-century America’s most famous theatrical family....