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Gore Vidal claimed there was no such thing as “gay,” only gay sexual acts. But what was the truth about his sex life and sexualityーand how did it affect and influence his writing and public life? W……続きを見る

Unul dintre marii scriitori ai secolului XX, Ernesto Sabato, îi cere fostei sale iubite, profesoară de fizică la facultatea din Buenos Aires, despre care crede că are talent literar, să imortalizeze……続きを見る

Seymour Hersh has been the most important, famous, and controversial journalist in the United States for the last forty years. From his exposé of the My Lai massacre in 1969 to his revelations about……続きを見る

A true story of sun, sand, sex and secrecy. For a sassy young woman used to blagging, blogging and slogging her way through dreary London, the call of a glamorous, tax-free lifestyle in sunny Dubai ……続きを見る

OPEN THE HEART of Self-Discovery through the Life and Amazing Works of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman was known as the "Good Gray Poet" who paved the way for modern American poetry. The epithets "good" a……続きを見る

From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict. Aleksandar Hemon grew up in……続きを見る

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choic……続きを見る

After Long Busyness: Interviews with Eight Heartland Poets compiles a series of interviews with poets who have a connection to South Dakota. Originally conducted for poet and editor Eric Lochridge's……続きを見る

A fascinating insight into the life of one of the country's bestselling and best-loved authors, marrying her work with her extraordinary life, and looking at her rise to fame and fortune against all……続きを見る

Long before Robert Novak became the center of a political firestorm in the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal, he had established himself as one of the finestーand most controversialーpolitical reporter……続きを見る

The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how littl……続きを見る

The story, written in the first person, is a collection of messages which form Maria’s sustained monologue with the world. Through her e-mails we find out about the questions she is facing and sense……続きを見る

When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeple……続きを見る

A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporter on the front lines of the war on terror. A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, journalist Mega……続きを見る

Kata Pengantar: Sebuah Kata Cinta Thanks buat panitia yang menyelenggarakan semua acara ini. Saya menyukai dunia fotografi dan akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk mengabadikan foto-foto ini dalam sebuah ……続きを見る

Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenchesーa delicious tour through contemporary food history. When Raymond Sokolov became foo……続きを見る

"Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737[1] January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published……続きを見る

William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the presen……続きを見る

James Murray recounts nine days spent in the remote and beautiful landscapes of the Northern Territory, yet this is much more than a book about bushwalking. A delicate hymn to the wilderness of N……続きを見る

Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers. Literary types know Henry James; psychologists, philosophers, and religion scholars know William James. In reality, the brothers’ mi……続きを見る

A fascinating biography of one of the greatest writers in all of history: Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, author of War and Peace. Written by his son Count Ilya Tolstoy, this is a wonderfully intim……続きを見る

FRIDTJOF NANSEN, Norway's greatest explorer, humanitarian and winner of the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize, met the writer BRENDA UELAND in New York City in 1929. He was 67 and she was 37. They had a brief ……続きを見る

Lavinia Greenlaw’s mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-’70s Essex. Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all i……続きを見る

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African WRITTEN BY Olaudah Equiano 続きを見る

You know their works, but do you know their lives? Do you know what inspired them to write some of the greatest literature the world has ever known? This book contains profiles of seven different En……続きを見る

An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America’s best-loved novelists. ‘When I began writing this history, I let go of my doub……続きを見る

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor. 'The whole place seemed co……続きを見る

Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had bee……続きを見る

"A masterpiece."ーRichard Eder, The New York Times. Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Revie……続きを見る

Novelist Mark Childress ("Crazy in Alabama," "Georgia Bottoms") happened to be born in Monroeville, Alabama – the town Harper Lee called Maycomb when she wrote about it in the classic "To Kill a Moc……続きを見る