How About Never - Is Never Good for You? by Bob Mankoff
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Category: Literary
People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best ...Show more
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
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Category: Literary | Series: Jewish Lives
"Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust's imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very subtle, thought-provoking book."-Anka M ...Show more
How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits by Duncan Fallowell
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Category: Literary
WINNER OF THE 2012 PEN/ACKERLEY PRIZE A haunting memoir on the nature of belonging and the lure of escape. In this series of five brilliantly written and irrepressibly quirky travelogues, Duncan Fallowell sets out to odd corners of the world in pursuit of some extraordinary and improbable characters who ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
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Category: Literary
Charlotte Bront famously lived her life in a parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and creative siblings. Claire Harman's biography transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to rebellion and ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previ ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
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Category: Literary
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more
Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia by Emmanuel Carrere
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Category: Literary
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figuresThis is how Emmanuel Carrere, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk ...Show more
John Le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
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Category: Literary
John le Carre is still at the top, more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. From his bleak childhood - the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a serial-seducer and con-m ...Show more
The Blue Touch Paper - A Memoir by David Hare
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Category: Literary
When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England. Now in his first ...Show more
Pour Me: A Life by A. A. Gill
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Category: Literary
'Wake up! You're at sea - it doesn't matter which sea, it's just rising and falling. You're alone in a little boat. You have no idea how you got there. You look along the horizon. It's as sharp as a razor-cut. There's nothing but sea and the cloche of sky, the salty bobbing earth curving away...and then ...Show more
Pour Me: A Life by A. A. Gill
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Category: Literary
A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change but mainly through weariness. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to b ...Show more
Letter to His Father / Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka
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Category: Literary | Series: The\Schocken Kafka Library
One of the most astonishing and revelatory pieces of writing ever produced by this twentieth-century literary icon, presented in both the original German and the English translation. Kafka s letter to his father is at once an exploration of his relationship to his father, his need to write, and the sour ...Show more
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Literary
'Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real'. This selection of Iris Murdoch's most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words ...Show more