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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...

A collection of Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak's critical writings devoted to authors and artists whose work he admired, including Randolph Caldecott, Beatrix Potter, and Walt Disney, along with several interviews and autobiographical pieces. Now with a new introduction by Sergio Ruzzier!...

Der größte deutschsprachige Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts unterhielt einen regen Briefverkehr, in dem er seinen brillanten Geist in Form philosophischer Geistesblitze, aphoristischer Gedankenstreiche und wunderbarer Situationskomik offenbart. Immer 100%ig Gotteslästerlich, Todesverachtend und Lebensbejahend, dabei ironisch-schmunzelnd gesellschafts- und staatskritisch, aber eben auch mit Tiefgang und Herz.

In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht. 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.

From Booker Prize–winning novelist Ian McEwan comes a dazzling collection of essays, ranging from intimate memoirs of his childhood and his early days as a writer, to illuminating explorations of consciousness, the health of the planet, and living in a world without his closest friends. "A...

A raw, sweeping biography of Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of such era-defining novels as The Road, Blood Meridian, and All the Pretty Horses—written by a bestselling journalist with extraordinary personal access to the man and his world Laurence Gonzales’s Isolato is a powerful and...

A revealing portrait of the cultural giant who transformed American letters. In this buoyant book-length study of the man, Joe Mysak, who first met Wolfe in 1977, obliges. Mysak shows us a Wolfe who was an assassin on the page yet prized politeness and manners.

Der größte deutschsprachige Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts hat auch Tagebücher geschrieben – und was für welche! Ein wilder Mix aus augenblicklichen Frauengeschichten, Freizeitaktivitäten mit Kumpels, Gedanken zu seinen zahlreichen Werken, den Vorbedingungen für das Schaffen von kleiner und großer Kunst, natürlich schwerpunktmäßig hinsichtlich seiner Bühnenstücke. Zwischendurch gewürzt mit elegant-burlesken Liedtexten und kurzen Gedichten.

The Bloomsbury Group of influential British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, whose most prominent members were Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keyes and Roger Fry, has starkly divided opinion ever since its lofty...

The reissued classic from “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman—a “superb” (The 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...

The first biography of Sue Townsend, the brilliant and satirical mind behind the iconic teenage diarist Adrian Mole. Sue Townsend grew up in working class Leicestershire and left school at 14. In the 70s she was a young single mother working in youth and community services, writing on the side...

A powerhouse portrait of Jimmy Breslin, the acclaimed writer who pummeled politicians, profiled Mafia kingpins, and gave voice to the poor and powerless. Sometimes a towering figure from our past can help us understand our present. Jimmy Breslin is that figure—a journalist who spent most of...

Bestselling author John Kenney writes a luminous, powerful memoir about the long tail of grief—the ways it hides, the ways it shapes us, and what it means, finally, to mourn someone fully, even if it takes half a lifetime to find the words. When John Kenney's mother died, the Boston Globe ran her obituary. After writing his bestselling novel about an obituary writer, I See You've Called in Dead, Kenney couldn't stop thinking about the impossibility of summing up a person's life in that small format, in just 74 words.

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. Three years after Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood took the literary world by storm and made...

In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht. 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.

Every life has many doors and any novel that tells of breakdown must draw us through to unexpected places; places of fear, intensity and muddled thought, but also of what feels to me – in retrospect - like a sort of shimmering that vibrates on through the rest of life when the experience is...

He had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son. James Wood grew up in a household shaped by evangelical fervour, social ambition and the peculiar faultlines of English class. His mother, Sheila, was anxious, aspirational...

Where are the women writers? Has their work been lost to history? Or did it ever exist at all? Were there really women writing in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries? (Or indeed, in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth?) And were any of them any good? Many people have a hard time naming a...

The extraordinary life of the pioneering New York Times architecture critic who changed how Americans saw our cities. For fifty years, Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013) was the preeminent writer on architecture in America and a passionate voice in defense of civic beauty and the public good. The...