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A partir de centenares de entrevistas con amigos, colaboradores y empleados próximos a Anna, Amy Odell despliega una inspiradora historia de poder y ambición en un universo, el de las revistas de moda, tan fértil en glamour como en mezquindades. De niña, Anna Wintour carecía de cualquier interés por la ropa, pero cuando en la adolescencia descubrió las minifaldas y los cortes de pelo bob, se obsesionó. Su padre, un influyente periodista británico y figura clave en su vida, vaticinó que terminaría siendo directora de Vogue. Ella no cejó en su empeño hasta lograrlo.

Parallel Lives tells the human stories behind 72 writers, from Homer to Joyce. Paired in 36 chapters, Austen beside Emily Brontë, Dickens beside Victor Hugo, Dostoyevsky beside Nietzsche, each portrait reveals how time, place, temperament, and sheer stubbornness shaped what these writers became.

El estudio definitivo sobre el intelectual más influyente del siglo XX La literatura de George Orwell se ha convertido en un fenómeno de masas mundial. Hay pocas estanterías en las que falten sus dos clásicos intemporales: la parábola de la revolución bolchevique Rebelión en la granja y...

Olivia Laing nos ofrece en este nuevo ensayo un análisis del cuerpo y sus insatisfacciones a través de los grandes movimientos por la libertad del siglo XX. El cuerpo es una fuente de placer y de dolor, a su vez vulnerable y rebosante de poder. En este ambicioso ensayo, Olivia Laing emprende...

Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880, Helen Keller lived the first two years of her life as any normal seeing and hearing child might. Then, one dreary February, Helen was stricken with a mysterious illness that left her blind and deaf. It wasn’t until the age of six, when Miss...

NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE The first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern...

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 to reveal one woman's extraordinary progress: from orphan to millinery shopkeeper, from lodestar of feminine style to a very rich woman with a closet full of dark secrets.

The Rebecca Notebook provides an unparalleled insight into the mastery of a writer's craft and the inner vision that made du Maurier a household name. One of the great international bestsellers, Rebecca also inspired a film, a play, and television dramas. This perfect companion volume, The Rebecca Notebook, outlines just how Rebecca came to be written, tracing its origins, developments and the directions it might have taken.

Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities—from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground—gathered in an ongoing bash.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, OPRAH DAILY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, GOODREADS, AND MORE “Brilliant…A high-spirited, exhilarating memoir.” —The Wall Street Journal “In Joyride, the takeaway often has as much to do with the art of living as the art of...

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Bisexuality is often seen as something temporary, in spite of increasing openness around it: a sign of immaturity or a waystation on the road to a different sexuality altogether, rather than its own distinct entity. In this beautifully written cultural history, Sam Mills reclaims bisexuality as its own identity, interweaving her experience of being bisexual with illuminating portraits of a clutch of artists, writers and musicians, including Colette, Bessie Smith, Marlene Dietrich, Anaïs Nin, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Madonna.

Known to millions mainly as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Stephen King es el más importante creador de best-sellers de terror, misterio y ciencia-ficción de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Como consecuencia de todo ello, Stephen King ha conformado un imaginario extremadamente rico que fascina a sus muy numerosos seguidores. Tony Jiménez es uno de ellos, pero también uno de los principales estudiosos de la ingente obra de King y un erudito sobre su misteriosa figura.

A stunning memoir of coming of age and coming out bisexual by award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew.

A captivating anthology and heartfelt tribute to the horror genre featuring essays from several of the most celebrated contemporary horror writers including, Grady Hendrix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Malerman, Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Rachel Harrison. For twenty-five...

Best-selling author Sophie Kinsella joins Sophie Plateau in the Audible Studios to discuss her new novel, My Not So Perfect Life. It follows the character of Katie Brenner: a woman who leads the perfect life on Instagram but not in the real world.

Nicholas Sparks has published over 20 books, most of which have been international bestsellers. Many have gone on to be adapted in high-profile films. The adaptation of The Notebook has, of course, left most of us reaching for the tissue box. He visits the Audible Studios to talk about his amazing career, and his latest novel, See Me.

"Peut-on nommer son propre sang ? Et décrire la première blessure, ce moment où, paraissant au jour, le sang se refuse encore à la vie ? À supposer qu'on se rappelle sa circoncision, pourquoi cet acte de mémoire serait-il une confession ? L'aveu de quoi, au juste ? Et de qui ? À qui ? Rôdant autour de ces questions, essayant, comme au clavier, une voix juste au-dedans de moi, je tente de dire de longues, [...] phrases, et de les murmurer au plus près de l'autre qui pourtant les aspire, soupire, expire, les dicte même."

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting...