An ultra-vivid, carnivalesque memoir of Jennifer Clement's early life from 60s Mexico to 80s New York City - the prequel to Widow Basquiat

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love and shared life experiences led them to find a courageous way to part—and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss.

“What a book this is—full of everything that matters . . . gripping, moving, and beautifully told.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Oprah Daily, BookPage

Amy Bloom began to notic...

From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about showbusiness, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs.

The extraordinary life of the global figure in modern environmentalism and co-creator of Gaia Theory, as confided to award-winning journalist Jonathan Watts

The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.

Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books tha...

Report on the period of 1938 - 1946 of a young women who married in India and lived with her husband in the Dutch East Indies. After the capitulation she became interned in Japanese prisoncamps on Sumatra. Her husband worked on the Burma-Siam railway and died there. Her uncle fought in Bandoeng (Java) and was captured and also worked on the Burma-Siam railway and was transported to Japan in the hull of one of the Hell ships. He died in the bay of Manilla. Both have been awarded the War Mobil...

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.

From his early movies to his later documentaries, he has made a career out of exploring the boundaries of human endurance: what we are capable of in exceptional circumstances and what th...

The correspondence of two men for a decade, when youngsters met each other in the sixties, remained friends up to the age of founding families and now at old age, create an image of them in getting-older-times.

Here are letters for one decade from 2012 to somewhere 2021. It starts with their meeting in 1969, recorded by memory and diary, and then jumps to a continuation of email-stream as presented here, which starts in 2012. It was a time of books, music, politic instabilities, loves, famil...