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Beyond Beauty, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern...

An intimate encounter with four young poets on their way to literary fame in the legendary grit and glitter of postwar New York "I defy readers to withstand the romance of the moment Kindley so beautifully describes and to resist the urge to relive it through the New York School Poets’ verse...

The fascinating, never-before-told story of Arcangela Tarabotti, a 17th century Venetian nun who set the European literary world alight, advocating for women and combatting misogyny in her time. Set amid the extravagance of 17th-century Venice, Arcangela unearths the biography of an iconoclastic...

Last Night I Dreamt has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

The Swinging Christies, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

Bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume documents the frenzied race to write the definitive account of the Manson murders—a race that included the likes of literary icons Truman Capote and Joan Didion. A decade after Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood took the literary world by storm and made Capote...

The reissued classic from “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman—a “superb” (New York Times Book Review) memoir in five essays about fathers, and Wideman's vexed relationship with his own. An essential chronicler of Black American experience for over half a...

Prodigal, a new Fourth Estate book, full description to follow when available...

From an acclaimed scholar and longtime friend of Toni Morrison, an intimate and searching account of the life and the art of one of our greatest and most prophetic writers Few critics have mapped the terrain of black American literature and culture with the range, rigor, and moral seriousness of...

A daring reappraisal of notorious writer Anaïs Nin, presenting her self-mythologizing as a radical creative act in a world that offered women few avenues for freedom Born in 1903, Anaïs Nin led a bohemian life across Paris, New York, and Los Angeles and carved out bold new forms of...

Trece Sentidos has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener...

Bei seinen Tagebüchern herrscht durchaus ebenfalls diese ganz eigene Stimmung, allerdings überwiegend in einer starken Reduzierung der Gedankengänge auf ziemlich kurze, nicht ausgearbeitete spontane Sätze und unmittelbare Eindrücke, was dem Tagebuch-Genre geschuldet ist. Dennoch interessant aufgrund der Persönlichkeit Manns und seinem Austausch mit prominenten Literatur-Größen wie Hermann Hesse, Peter Suhrkamp, Franz Werfel u. a. und seiner privaten Situation unmittelbar vor der Übernahme Deutschlands bzw. der Machtergreifung durch die Nazis.

A memoir-in-vignettes recalling a poet's early years and memories from a literary household. More than a consecutive memoir, The Fair Fields presents a set of linked vignettes about what it was like to grow up in a white, liberal, literary household in Connecticut in the 1950s and early 1960s...

Bei seinen Tagebüchern herrscht durchaus ebenfalls diese ganz eigene Stimmung, allerdings überwiegend in einer starken Reduzierung der Gedankengänge auf ziemlich kurze, nicht ausgearbeitete spontane Sätze und unmittelbare Eindrücke, was dem Tagebuch-Genre geschuldet ist. Dennoch interessant aufgrund der Persönlichkeit Manns und seinem Austausch mit prominenten Literatur-Größen wie Hermann Hesse, Peter Suhrkamp, Franz Werfel u. a. und seiner privaten Situation unmittelbar vor der Übernahme Deutschlands bzw. der Machtergreifung durch die Nazis.

A critical biography contextualizing major events from Twain’s life as they pertain to his writing and modern legacy, from the bestselling author of the Edgar Allan Poe biography A Mystery of Mysteries. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter...

A unique approach to understanding Agatha Christie’s infamous eleven-day disappearance, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie. In December of 1926, Agatha Christie, the world’s most famous mystery author, vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied...

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today. Readers of the work of Arthur Miller will be familiar with the presence of NYC in much of his work. In Arthur...

A groundbreaking exploration of one of America's most iconic and misunderstood authors Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and the vital relationship between the two. Best known for his...