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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by title | author Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the... I Must Resist Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters Bayard Rustin, Julian Bond, Michael G Long Hot off the press: 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... 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... The Memory Chalet Tony Judt Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So A Memoir Mark Vonnegut, M.D. More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower... Alfred Jarry A Pataphysical Life Alastair Brotchie When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris--but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as... Not Dead Yet A Feisty Bohemian Explores the Art of Growing Old Herb Gold An NPR Book of the Year, “worth, oh well, its weight in gold. . . . vivid and eloquent.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAn upbeat memoir to savor and admire, Still Alive! proves that in your later years you can still be going strong . . . and having... 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... Confessions of a Young Novelist (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature) Umberto Eco Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions," the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist... Dreams in a Time of War A Childhood Memoir Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children, young... Like Shaking Hands with God A Conversation about Writing Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer In Like Shaking Hands with God, two distinguished writers—separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations—talk about the place where the lives they lead meet the art they practice. That these two writers... Fate, Time, and Language An Essay on Free Will David Foster Wallace, Steven M. Cahn, Maureen Eckert In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>