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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | publication date Revolutionary Suicide Huey Newton The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the... 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. The Reckoning The Murder of Christopher Marlowe Charles Nicholl Elizabethan playwright-poet Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593 at the age of 28, supposedly in a dispute over a tavern bill or "reckoning." In a painstaking piece of scholarship that reads like an intricate detective thriller, British author Nicholl... The Peep Diaries How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors Hal Niedzviecki One man's journey through a rapidly transforming culture of lying, spying, revealing, and confessing Henry and June From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) Anais Nin This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book... Facing Unpleasant Facts George Orwell George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George... Homage to Catalonia George Orwell "I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets." Most war correspondents... Stranger Than Fiction True Stories Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction. At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle... Life As We Show It Writing On Film Brian Pera, Masha Tupitsyn Writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. 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... Robert Duncan in San Francisco Michael Rumaker A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life. Joseph Anton A Memoir Salman Rushdie On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called... 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. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>