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Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

by Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way

First published in 1978, Jack's Book...


Swing Low: A Life

by Miriam Toews

One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out of town, and took his own life. A loving husband and father, a faithful member of the Mennonite church, and an immensely popular schoolteacher, Mel...


Memoirs Of A Booklegger

by Jack Kahane

Kahane, father of Olympia Press founder Maurice Girodias, recalls his life and his incredible publishing run in Paris from '31-39.


We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran

by Aria Minu-Sepehr

ARIA MINU-SEPEHR was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shahs Imperial Iranian Air Force. It seemed his father could do anythinglead the Golden Crowns...


My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

by Alfred Habegger

Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that...


Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

by Valerie Boyd

A woman of enormous talent, remarkable drive, and rare intellectual prowess, Zora Neale Hurston published four novels, two books of folklore, an autobiography, many short stories, and several articles and plays...


American Racist

by Anthony Slide

" Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature film The Birth of a Nation. Perhaps unfairly, Dixon has been branded...


More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

by Elizabeth Wurtzel

I crush up my pills and snort them like dust. They are my sugar. They are the sweetness in the days that have none. They drip through me like tupelo honey. Then they are gone. Then I need more. I always need...


Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

by John Sutherland

No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s...


The Tale of the Rose: The Passion That Inspired The Little Prince

by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane...


A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967

by Rachel Cohen

“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...


Anything We Love Can Be Saved

by Alice Walker

In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion...


Albert Camus: A Life

by Olivier Todd

In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never...


Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and He aler

by David Md Watts

In beautifully crafted vignettes, physician and NPR commentator David Watts explores the world of modern-day medicine and reveals the emotional truths and practical realities at the heart of the doctor-patient...


A Safe Place

by Lorenzo Carcaterra

"Dramatic, graphic and wrenching...The reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir."

THE WASHINGTON...


J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian

by Julia Markus

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.


Wendell Berry: Life and Work

by Jason Peters

Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies simple labels. With...


And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-

by Elie Wiesel

As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and...


The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

by James Baldwin & Randall Kenan

The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form.

 

James Baldwin was one...


A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what...