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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | author In the House of the Interpreter A Memoir Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a writer who has lived through extraordinary times. In the House of the Interpreter tells the story of his schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence. Just Kids Unabridged Audiobook Patti Smith Patti Smith reads her award-winning memoir It Chooses You Miranda July July is an incredible artist. She's also a film director, actress and screenwriter (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and this book chronicles her strange yet endlessly intriguing creative process. She finds herself with writer's block during... Gainsbourg The Biography Gilles Verlant Gilles Verlant's biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language. Drawing from numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant provides a fascinating look at the inner workings of 1950s–1990s French pop culture and... I Must Resist Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters Bayard Rustin, Julian Bond, Michael G Long BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM Bayard Rustin's life story told in his own words through his intimate correspondence, published on the centennial of his birth. House of Prayer No. 2 A Writer's Journey Home Mark Richard Based on its subject matter and jacket copy, this might have been an inspirational memoir. But in Mark Richard's hands, the story of his own life is weird and unsettling and haunting and very much like an ocean hiding outlandish fauna somewhere beneath... Roman Letters Evan Calder Williams As a whole, this book casts a pessimistic glare toward late capitalism, each letter finding a theme or subject through which we can visualize the absurdity of our own surroundings. Yet beneath this pessimism exists a poetic razor which cuts through... Blue Nights Joan Didion From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan... Ten Years That Shook the City San Francisco 1968-1978 Chris Carlsson The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world. Role Models John Waters Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify—readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite... God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian Kurt Vonnegut So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say 'He's up in Heaven now.' Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian includes all of Kurt Vonnegut's intrepid... White Hand Society The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg Peter Conners How Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together: the inside story. Just Kids Patti Smith Just Kids illuminates the impressive lover of literature that Patti Smith is. Her memoir will be of particular interest to City Lights enthusiasts as she is our quintessential reader, a fan of the Surrealists... Essays Wallace Shawn "I've written plays and a few screenplays, in each one a person who isn't me speaks, and then another who isn't me replies, and then a third one enters or the first one speaks again. . . . I've even worked as a professional actor, speaking out loud... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>