Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of usi…
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it's your turn. Jump!"
The only biography Henry Miller ever wanted was the one he himself wrote in the brash, life-affirming fictions of The Tropic of Capricorn, The Tropic of Cancer, and The Rosy Crucifixion. But Robert Fe…
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us …
Shelve A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for…
Shelve Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
This novel introduces Fante's alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask the Dust (1939), and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982). The manuscri…
Shelve The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #2)
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American m…
In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where…
'Hotel de Dream' is a historical novel from one of New York's most prolific authors. It is constructed around the imagined authorship of a novel by Stephen Crane.
Questo romanzo si interroga sul rapporto eterno tra il bene e il male, affrontando temi di grande attualità come revenge porn e bullismo. Giorgio Antonelli ha 26 anni e non gliene frega niente della c…
Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great clas…
A Ischiano Scalo il mare c'è ma non si vede. E' un paesino di quattro case accanto a una laguna piena di zanzare. Il turismo lo evita perché d'estate s'infuoca come una graticola e d'inverno si gela. …
Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to sur…
Shelve Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.
Do tough times create tou…
Shelve The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller.
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry's most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexua…
Shelve Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his w…
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchin…
"Due di due" è un romanzo apparso per la prima volta nell'89. Narra l'amicizia fra Mario, l'io narrante, e Guido, un suo compagno di scuola. Sono così diversi da essere speculari, Mario e Guido: il pr…
"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." Love, …
Shelve Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a w…
Philosophy of the Boudoir follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate the fifteen-year-old Eugénie de Mistival in “the principles of the most outrageous libertinism.” 200 years after de Sade’s deat…
Even if you don't realize it, Lois has probably affected your buying habits. From the man who created "I want my MTV", here are inside tips on creating great advertising and marketing techniques. In t…
Shelve What's the Big Idea?: How to Win with Outrageous Ideas (That Sell!)
In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth century though rare in ours; a story of ideas in which two companions, traveling and talking together,…
Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and something quite different: "cinema"—which is for him nothing but an attempt to photograph theater and us…
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary…
