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Curveball
Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
“A crucial study in the political manipulation of intelligence, understanding how Curveball got us into Iraq will arm us for the next round of lies coming out of Washington.”—Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
Curveball...
Due Considerations
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
“A drop of truth, of lived experienced, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike modestly described his nonfiction pieces, of which Due Considerations is perhaps his most varied, stylish, and personal collection. Here Updike reflects on such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Don DeLillo,...
Odd Jobs
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected...
Killer, Come Hither
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a taut thriller that takes readers from the office suites of Manhattan to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough-and-tumble western plains of Brazil.
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Emily Post
Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
“What would Emily Post do?” Even today, Americans cite the author of the perennial bestseller Etiquette as a touchstone for proper behavior. But who was the woman behind the myth, the authority on good manners who has outlasted all comers? Award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first...
Higher Gossip
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Here is the collection of nonfiction pieces that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009. It opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation...
Hugging the Shore
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
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“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection...
Twilight at Monticello
The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about this true American icon. It was during these years–from his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president...
Guts
Combat, Hell-raising, Cancer, Business Start-ups, and Undying Love: One American Guy's Reckless, Lucky Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
“This is a memoir: a package of boasts, false modesty, flawed memories, dropped names, outright errors, and embarrassing disclosures that I think are pretty neat–but may appall you, if you’re squeamish or have an orderly turn of mind.”—Robert Nylen
The thing is, Robert Nylen should...
Step Across This Line
Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times.
Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous...
Among the Ten Thousand Things
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND THE HUFFINGTON POST • Features an exclusive conversation between Julia Pierpont and Lena Dunham
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the...
Picked-Up Pieces
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one word could sum up the young critic’s approach to books and their authors it would be “generosity”:...
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001.
On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald’s harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined “silences” of our time. In it,...
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English.
This edition includes more than 40 pieces of art, all originally selected by W. G. Sebald.
This...