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The Off-Hollywood Film Guide
The Definitive Guide to Independent and Foreign Films on Video and DVD
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
The Off-Hollywood Film Guide cuts through the clutter of the thousands of films currently available on video and DVD by specifically catering to independent- and foreign-film enthusiasts. In addition to a list of essential must-see films, this guide includes hundreds of entries, each with brief commentary...
by Sheldon M. Novick
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
As if Henry James himself were guiding us, we visit old Calvinist New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and share the coming-of-age of a young man whose boldness of spirit and profound capacity for affection attract both men and women to him. We journey with James through Italy and France, witness...
Ghost Light
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have gone home. Frank Rich's eloquent and moving...
Stradivari's Genius
Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
“’Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.”
–George Eliot
Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long...
A Chance Meeting
Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
“They met in ordinary ways,” writes Rachel Cohen in her introduction, “a careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend’s casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be standing near the drinks. . . . They talked to each other for a few hours or for forty years, and later...
Rainbow in the Cloud
The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific career in letters, she became...
by The New Yorker Magazine, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s...
Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs
The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?
WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!
What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. Cooper really get away with it? Is Bigfoot a big fake? Are ETs just BS? If you’re tired of...
Shame and Wonder
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
For fans of John Jeremiah Sullivan, Leslie Jamison, Geoff Dyer, and W. G. Sebald, the twenty-one essays in David Searcy’s debut collection are captivating, daring—and completely unlike anything else you’ve read before. Forging connections between the sublime and the mundane, this is a work of...
by Ralph Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that trace the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades
These extensive and revealing letters...
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside...
Life Happens
And Other Unavoidable Truths
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
From the 2005 Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues, family, and much, much more. In the tradition of Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, and Erma Bombeck, but with a distinctive voice and sensibility all her...
Wrestling with Gravy
A Life, with Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In this inviting feast of a memoir, former New York Times food columnist Jonathan Reynolds dishes up a life that is by turns hilarious and tender–and seasoned with the zest of cooking, family, eating, and lounging around various tables in tryptophanic stupors.
A Ticket to the Circus
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
BONUS: This edition contains an A Ticket to the Circus discussion guide.
In this revealing memoir, told with southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts the full evolution of her colorful life—from her childhood in a small Arkansas town all the way through her intense thirty-three-year...