wired - Literary 2

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr., just 15, flees Italy and his domineering father, sailing to America with only pennies in his pockets. He passes through Ellis Island in 1906 and ……続きを見る

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of ……続きを見る

During the course of 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter million dollars on practically every method of gambling currently available in America. Chronicling his wild rid……続きを見る

These poems describe aspects of the author's professional, personal, and spiritual life. The styles vary as literary influences appear and fade. There is joy, fear, anger, hope, and transcendence. H……続きを見る

Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World by Frederic V. Grunfeld (with an introduction by Michael Brenner; 134,000 words, 16 illustrations) Prophets Without Honour is a colle……続きを見る

In 1962 a small Morgan sports car TOK258 created history by defeating factory teams run by leading international manufacturers in the famous 24 hour race at the Le Mans circuit. The car crossed the ……続きを見る

Poetic expression of heart felt emotions during a time of tragedy, crisis, heartbreak, and rebirth. LaFreddie B lays it all on the line as he shares his real emotions during a very dark period of hi……続きを見る

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War de……続きを見る

Dr. Audry Lynch, a Steinbeck scholar, has gathered together twenty reminiscences from people who knew John Steinbeck personally. The interviews cover three periods in Steinbeck's life in California:……続きを見る

The proprietor of the “The Bookstore” in Lenox, MA, the author, Matthew Tannenbaum, reflects on getting his start at the legendary Gotham Book Mart on West 47th Street in New York City. He writes, “……続きを見る

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) , a native of Amherst, New Hampshire , grew up the son of a poor farmer. His life reads like the quintessential American success story: from his humble beginnings he mov……続きを見る

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

From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist... At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie……続きを見る

Essays -- The book is a collection of a large number of short subjective treatments of various topics published in 1580. Montaigne's stated goal is to describe man, and especially himself, with utte……続きを見る

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his ……続きを見る

Straight from East New York, the dark heart of Brooklyn, RUMBLE IN BROOKLYN depicts the street fighting childhood of Joseph Trigoboff, who knew and exchanged blows with several of the murderous gan……続きを見る

An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account of Oscar Wilde's life and writings is richer, live……続きを見る

Marty Beckerman's hilarious guide for the modern man to booze, battle, and bull-fight his way to becoming more like Hemingway More than fifty years have passed since the death of Ernest Hemingway, h……続きを見る

"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person st……続きを見る

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) , a native of Amherst, New Hampshire , grew up the son of a poor farmer. His life reads like the quintessential American success story: from his humble beginnings he mov……続きを見る

What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fled……続きを見る

During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychologi……続きを見る

From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Sco……続きを見る

Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slippin……続きを見る

Max Hastings is best known as an acclaimed journalist and military historian. But what is perhaps less well known is his love of the countryside and its pursuits, above all fishing and shooting, whi……続きを見る

Loss. Hope. Love. The day Valerie discovered she was pregnant was the day her husband died. She didn't know how to be a widow. Widows were old. Not twenty-six and pregnant. Valerie moved cross-count……続きを見る

Published to coincide with the film release of ‘The Great Gatsby’, Collins Classics brings you F. Scott Fitzgerald’s three best-known works in one collection. Complete with a Life & Times section, w……続きを見る

A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton's all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanin……続きを見る

It's dark, it's funny, it's insane, it's tearful, it's warm, and it's cold. It's all things wrapped into one. Infamous poet and songwriter, Rob Redwine, takes you on a bit of a roller coaster ride o……続きを見る

“Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to……続きを見る