Open Road: 9207 books
Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent
My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The early life and trailblazing career of one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable female journalists
In this fascinating memoir, Ruth Gruber recalls her first twenty-five years, from her youth in Brooklyn to her astonishing academic accomplishments and groundbreaking journalistic career....
The Motion of Light in Water
Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
This Hugo Award–winning memoir is “a very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer” (William Gibson, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Neuromancer).
With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the...
by Madeleine L'Engle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals.
Every so often I need OUT. . . . My special place is a small brook in a green glade, a circle of quiet from which there is no visible...
The Child Who Never Grew
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A “groundbreaking” memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice—a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly).
It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have...
by Mary McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Tracing her moral struggles to the day she accidentally took a sip of water before her Communion—a mortal sin—Mary McCarthy gives us eight funny and heartrending essays about the illusive and redemptive nature of memory
“During the course of writing this, I’ve often wished that I were...
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Life on a Mediterranean Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet: “A superlative piece of . . . writing . . . rooted in the Mediterranean scene” (Time).
In 1953, as the British Empire relaxes its grip upon the world, the island of Cyprus bucks for independence. Some...
The Time of Their Lives
The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—“A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures” (The New York Times).
According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began...
My Several Worlds
A Personal Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A memoir from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Not only [Buck’s] most important book, but—on many counts—her best book” (Kirkus Reviews).
Often regarded as one of Pearl S. Buck’s most significant works, My Several Worlds is the memoir of a major novelist...
The Crosswicks Journals
A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The New York Times–bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in these four memoirs.
Set against the lush backdrop of Crosswicks, Madeleine L’Engle’s family farmhouse in rural Connecticut, this series of memoirs reveals the...
Gore Vidal
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This “fascinating” biography of an iconic American author and public intellectual “is so full of incident and celebrity . . . a pageant of entertaining stories” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Few writers of recent memory have distinguished themselves in so many fields, and...
by Diana Souhami
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Diana Souhami’s Lambda Award–winning biography is a fascinating look at one of the twentieth century’s most intriguing lesbian literary figures
Born in 1880, Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall was a young unwanted child when her parents put an end to their tempestuous marriage by filing for divorce....
Inside of Time
My Journey from Alaska to Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The intrepid journalist and Holocaust refugee champion “gives a commonplace appeal to the momentous events with her ingenuous storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews).
Drawing from hundreds of notebooks accumulated throughout her career, Gruber’s breathtaking memoir spans some of the most significant...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Classic columns from the legendary New York journalist—“a master of the tough-talking, thoroughly researched, contentious, street-wise vignette” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New York**Daily News sparked...
by Philosophical Library, Joseph Sheban
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
An A-to-Z guide to the mystic poet’s maxims and aphorisms
An early twentieth-century Lebanese-American writer, Khalil Gibran instilled his poetry and art with his experiences in both the East and West. This selection of quotes, maxims, and aphorisms is drawn from such...