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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? "A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page... |
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Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side
Emilio D'Alessandro · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmaker - for the first time.Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal... |
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I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
Lee Grant · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 463
Format: Hardcover
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Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue "It... |
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The Radical King
Cornel West · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic... |
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The Keillor Reader
Garrison Keillor · Viking Books
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover
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Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done - a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist,... |
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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
ROGER STEFFENS · W W NORTON
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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The definitive oral history of Bob Marley by one of the world's foremost reggae scholars. Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945-1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never... |
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
DANIELLE ALLEN · Liveright
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison... |
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Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
Peter Ackroyd · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends: perfect for readers who want to know more about the iconic star but who don't want to commit to a lengthy work.He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces,... |
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The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
Christopher Isherwood · Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Pages: 481
Format: Print book
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The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy--in their own wordsThe English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within... |
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The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour-and the
Sheila Weller · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Weller rivetingly recounts these gutsy ladies' time on the front lines... an inspiration for future generations of journalists." --Vanity FairFor decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women - Diane Sawyer,... |
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
Sarah Churchwell · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover
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Kirkus (STARRED review)"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she's earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page."The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame,... |
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