In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts…
In New York Times bestselling The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the…
Shelve The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet―from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from birthing Max to shooting Pink Flamingos Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet―from…
Shelve Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black (Native Agents)
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful…
Shelve Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively…loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.” Cruisin…
Shelve Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing By Joan Didion's Light
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA.
The goddaugh…
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In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest—"The Virgin Tramp"—and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have d…
Quintana & Friends is John Gregory Dunne's first book since his bestselling True Confessions. Long regarded as one of our finest reporters, he is noted for his ironic wit and his keen ability to captu…
White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and m…
How do we take stock of a life—by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice str…
From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film , a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craft
"Open to any page and …
Shelve Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the …
Mackenzie Wellesley has spent her life avoiding the spotlight. At Smith High, she's the awkward junior people only notice when they need help with homework. Until she sends a burly football player fly…
Widely regarded as the first existentialist philosopher, Kierkegaard's philosophical priority of human reality over idealism and his emphasis on personal choice make him an astoundingly relevant think…
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, the soaring and essential pieces presented in There's a Revolution Outside, My Love give voice to the cleavages that have shak…
Shelve There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
From the award-winning author of How to Order the Universe, María José Ferrada beautifully details the life and lessons of an unconventional man and the boy who loves him.
Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disarming power that announces an extraordinary new literary voice.
