Random House New Releases - Biography & Autobiography - Literary - Between June 19, 2012 and July 19, 2013.

An Afghanistan Picture Show by William T. Vollmann

2013-07-09T00:30:00-05:00

An Afghanistan Picture Show Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann

Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.

In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted to join the mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. The resulting book wasn't published until 1992, and Library Journal wrote: "The wrong book written at the wrong time. . . . With the situation in Afghanistan rapidly heading toward resolution . . . libraries may safely skip this."

Thirty years later--and with the United States still mired in the longest war of its history--it's time for a reassessment of Vollmann's heartfelt tale of idealism and its terrifying betrayals.

An alloy of documentary and autobiographical elements characteristic of Vollmann's later nonfiction, An Afghanistan Picture Show is not a work of conventional reportage; instead, it's an account of a subtle and stubborn consciousness grappling with the limits of will and idealism imposed by violence and chaos.

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.

Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

Dreadful by David Margolick

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Dreadful The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick

American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. His first novel, The Gallery (1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to unflinchingly depict gay life in the military. The Gallery sold half a million copies upon publication, but never again would Burns receive that kind of critical or popular attention.

Dreadful follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. With intelligence and insight, David Margolick examines Burns’s moral ambivalence toward the behavior of American soldiers stationed with him in Naples, and the scandal surrounding his second novel, Lucifer with a Book, an unflattering portrayal of his experiences at Loomis.

Dreadful by David Margolick

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Dreadful The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick

College of One by Wendy W. Fairey

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

College of One
Written by Sheilah Graham
Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Melville House | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Collections - American; Literary Collections - Women Authors | $15.95 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-61219-283-3 (1-61219-283-1)

The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald—washed up, alcoholic and ill—dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved.

In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack in her apartment in 1940, the two writers lived the fervid, sometimes violent affair that is memorialized here with unprecedented intimacy.

When they met, Fitzgerald’s fame had waned. He battled crippling alcoholism while writing screenplays to support his daughter and institutionalized wife. Graham’s star, however, was rising, to the point where she became Hollywood’s highest-paid, best-read gossip columnist. But if Fitzgerald had lived out his “crack-up” in public, Graham kept her demons secret—such as that she believed herself to be “a fascinating fake who pulled the wool over Hollywood’s eyes.’’

Most poignantly, she keenly felt her lack of education, and Fitzgerald rose to the occasion. He became her passionate tutor, guiding her through a curriculum of his own design: a college of one. Graham loved him the more for it, writing the book as a tribute. As she explained, “An unusual man’s ideas on what constituted an education had to be preserved. It is a new chapter to add to what is already known about an author who has been microscopically investigated in all the other areas of his life.”

College of One by Sheilah Graham

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

College of One
Written by Sheilah Graham
Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey

eBook | Melville House | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Collections - American; Literary Collections - Women Authors | $15.00 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-61219-284-0 (1-61219-284-X)

The Difficulty of Being by Geoffrey O'Brien

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

The Difficulty of Being
Written by Jean Cocteau
Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge
Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Melville House | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Collections - European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays | $15.95 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-61219-290-1 (1-61219-290-4)

Reflections on life and art from the legendary filmmaker-novelist-poet-genius.

By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century, and had worked with the foremost artists of his time, including Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky.

This memoir tells the inside account of those achievements and of his glittering social circle. Cocteau writes about his childhood, about his development as an artist, and the peculiarity of the artist’s life, about his dreams, friendships, pain, and laughter. He probes his motivations and explains his philosophies, giving intimate details in soaring prose. And sprinkled throughout are anecdotes about the elite and historic people he associated with.

Beyond illuminating a truly remarkable life, The Difficulty of Being is an inspiring homage to the belief that art matters.

The Difficulty of Being by Geoffrey O'Brien

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

The Difficulty of Being
Written by Jean Cocteau
Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge
Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien

eBook | Melville House | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Collections - European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays | $15.95 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-61219-291-8 (1-61219-291-2)

The Fading Smile by Peter Davison

2013-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

The Fading Smile Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,
Written by Peter Davison

eBook, 336 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $17.99 | May 15, 2013 | 978-0-307-83296-2 (0-307-83296-1)

"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth."

Louis S. Auchincloss

An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in a tumult -- of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. He briefly squired Sylvia Plath. He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur. Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in friendship or rivalry or both, defined the shape of American poetry at mid-century Through their eves as well as his own, and often in their words, Davison presents a sharply fresh vision of the shift from confidence to a troubled questioning that overtook America -- a transformation that was, in a sense, foreshadowed in the sensibilities, in the writings, sometimes in the lives, of some of our finest poets.

Dared And Done by Julia Markus

2013-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

Dared And Done The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
Written by Julia Markus

eBook, 384 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $13.99 | May 8, 2013 | 978-0-307-83297-9 (0-307-83297-X)

A Riveting and brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but intensified.

We enter their story through the sealed Victorian world of the Barretts of Wimpole Street: Elizabeth, at thirty-nine, a poet of international fame, a child prodigy who had grown to be a middle-aged spinster, a woman for whom romantic love seemed not to be possible, confined by illness, morphine, and the tyranny of her father, scion of rich Jamaican slaveholders, rum and sugar traders.

It is to this fortress that Robert Browning, already an admired young poet and playwright, already a devotee of Elizabeth's, lays siege. ("I love your verses," he had written Elizabeth in his first letter to her, long before they met. "I love your verses with all my heart -- and I love you too.") And miraculously Elizabeth let life in.

Julia Markus chronicles their extraordinary courtship, their marriage in secret (Browning to Elizabeth: "How you have dared and done all this ... for my only sake?"), and their radiant honeymoon in Italy.

Markus shows us how the political events of the times inspired the great dramatic monologues of Robert's middle years and how Italy's stormy reunification inspired Elizabeth's later work.

We come to see Elizabeth as an artist with a fierce and final confidence in poetry and its effect on the poets' lives. We see husband and wife celebrate the birth of their son, Robert Wiedemann "Pen" Barrett Browning (Browning to her sisters: "I sate by [Elizabeth] as much as I was allowed, and I shall never forget what I saw, tho' I cannot speak about it").

We see them among their artist/writer friends: in London with Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, and others; in Rome with William Story, the American lawyer, poet, sculptor; with Harriet Hosmer, the stonecutter, who was one of the models for Aurora Leigh; with Charlotte Cushman, the American actress, who held readings of Elizabeth's novel in verse. We see Elizabeth in Paris meeting her heroine George Sand, whose society of socialists and theatrical types Robert described as "ragged Red."

We come to understand Elizabeth's dependence on the ever-present drug in her life ("I should not be alive except by help of my morphine") and her constant battle with depression. And we see Elizabeth, encouraged by a woman with whom she was infatuated, move from interest to obsession with spiritualism, a cause that became the only source of serious dissension between the Brownings.

We follow the course of their rich marriage, from the beginning when each saw the other as a brilliant poet, a compassionate and strangely similar heart, through the years in which they discovered each other's differences, each remaining a complex and thrilling human being to the other.

To tell their story, Markus for the first time makes use of much of Elizabeth's unpublished correspondence, amid a wealth of other documents. She delves fully into the Brownings' Creole background and shows how it affected their lives and their work (Elizabeth was the first of the Jamaican Barretts to be born in England in many generations).

Brilliantly interweaving the Brownings' own words with her authentic and perceptive narrative, Julia Markus brings these two great poets -- their marriage, their work, their times -- alive as never before.

Walter Pater by Denis Donoghue

2013-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

Walter Pater Lover of Strange Souls
Written by Denis Donoghue

eBook, 384 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History - Great Britain | $11.99 | May 8, 2013 | 978-0-307-83157-6 (0-307-83157-4)

A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over though and, in doing so, ignited a hard, gem-like flame. “Say not what it is but what it makes you see—or feel” is not something Pater ever said, but it will suffice as an encapsulation of an attitude that moved the authority of a work of art from the object to the subject, subsequently outraging the defenders of perceived truth of his time and making Pater himself a figure of controversy and even ridicule.
        Substituting sensationalism for sensation and reading Pater’s claim for hedonism, or pleasures the soul might savor, as outright decadence, Pater’s detractors far outnumbered and outranked his followers (including his fellow Oxonian and most notorious devotee, Oscar Wilde). But ever since Pater has proved, at least in the high arts, the decisive victor of the revolutions he set into motion.
        Denis Donoghue presents what will stand as the premier inquiry into Walter Pater’s life and ideas: a work of compelling erudition unrivaled in intuitive and intellectual force, revealing with eloquence, charm, and abundant yet measured discourse Pater’s centrality to the entire modernist movement. “Pater is audible,” Donoghue writes, “in virtually every attentive modern writer—in Hopkins, Wilde, James, Yeats, Pound, Ford, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Aiken, Hart Crane, Fitzgerald, Forster, Borges, Stevens.”
        Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls is both an education and an inspiration for anyone at all concerned with the changing character of latter-day Western culture. Here, without question, is a classic: a critical biography that lays open the very making of the culture that both assails and sustains us.

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather by Janis Stout

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Written by Willa Cather
Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout

This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after her death, with her literary reputation as secure as a reputation can be, the letters have become available for publication.

The 566 letters collected here, nearly 20 percent of the total, range from the funny (and mostly misspelled) reports of life in Red Cloud in the 1880s that Cather wrote as a teenager, through those from her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and during her growing eminence as a novelist. Postcards and letters describe her many travels around the United States and abroad, and they record her last years in the 1940s, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Written to family and close friends and to such luminaries as Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Frost, Yehudi Menuhin, Sinclair Lewis, and the president of Czechoslovakia, Thomas Masaryk, they reveal her in her daily life as a woman and writer passionately interested in people, literature, and the arts in general.

The voice heard in these letters is one we already know from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times funny, sentimental, and sarcastic. Unfiltered as only intimate communication can be, they are also full of small fibs, emotional outbursts, inconsistencies, and the joys and sorrows of the moment. The Selected Letters is a deep pleasure to read and to ponder, sure to appeal to those with a special devotion to Cather as well as to those just making her acquaintance.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather by Janis Stout

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Written by Willa Cather
Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout

Istanbul by John Lee

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

Istanbul Memories and the City
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Read by John Lee

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or hüzün– that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters–both Turkish and foreign–who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

Stations of the Heart by Richard Lischer

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Stations of the Heart Parting with a Son
Written by Richard Lischer

This poignant love story of a father for his son is at once funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful. In it a young man teaches his entire family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and, always, remarkable grace. This emotionally riveting account probes the heart without sentimentality or self-pity.

As the book opens, Richard Lischer’s son, Adam, calls to tell his father, a professor of divinity at Duke University, that his cancer has returned. Adam is a smart, charismatic young man with a promising law career, and an unlikely candidate for tragedy. That his young wife is pregnant with their first child makes the disease’s return all the more devastating. Despite the crushing magnitude of his diagnosis and the cruel course of the illness, Adam’s growing weakness evokes in him an unexpected strength.
This is the story of one last summer and the young man who lived it as honestly and faithfully as possible. We meet Adam in many phases of his growing up, but always through the narrow lens of his undying hope, when in the final season of his life he becomes his family’s (and his father’s) spiritual leader. Honest in its every dimension, Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable book about life and death and the terrible blessing of saying good-bye.

Stations of the Heart by Richard Lischer

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Stations of the Heart Parting with a Son
Written by Richard Lischer

From the Hardcover edition.

Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes

2013-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

Shelley: The Pursuit
Written by Richard Holmes
Introduction by Richard Holmes

Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmes—the finest literary biographer of our day—made his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of “a darker and more earthly, crueler and more capable figure.” Expelled from college, disowned by his aristocratic father, driven from England, Shelley led a life marked from its beginning to its early end by a violent rejection of society; he embraced rebellion and disgrace without thought of the cost to himself or to others. Here we have the real Shelley—radical agitator, atheist, apostle of free love, but above all a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator, whose life and work have proved an essential inspiration to poets as varied as W.B. Yeats and Allen Ginsberg.

Farther and Wilder by Blake Bailey

2013-03-19T00:30:00-05:00

Farther and Wilder The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey

From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do with the other.

Charles Jackson’s novel The Lost Weekend—the story of five disastrous days in the life of alcoholic Don Birnam—was published in 1944 to triumphant success. Within five years it had sold nearly half a million copies in various editions, and was added to the prestigious Modern Library. The actor Ray Milland, who would win an Oscar for his portrayal of Birnam, was coached in the ways of drunkenness by the novel’s author—a balding, impeccably groomed middle-aged man who had been sober since 1936 and had no intention of going down in history as the author of a thinly veiled autobiography about a crypto-homosexual drunk. But The Lost Weekend was all but entirely based on Jackson’s own experiences, and Jackson’s valiant struggles fill these pages. He and his handsome gay brother, Fred (“Boom”), grew up in the scandal-plagued village of Newark, New York, and later lived in Europe as TB patients, consorting with aristocratic café society. Jackson went on to work in radio and Hollywood, was published widely, lived in the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, and knew everyone from Judy Garland and Billy Wilder to Thomas Mann and Mary McCarthy. A doting family man with two daughters, Jackson was often industrious and sober; he even became a celebrated spokesman for Alcoholics Anonymous. Yet he ultimately found it nearly impossible to write without the stimulus of pills or alcohol and felt his devotion to his work was worth the price. Rich with incident and character, Farther & Wilder is the moving story of an artist whose commitment to bringing forbidden subjects into the popular discourse was far ahead of his time.

Farther and Wilder by Blake Bailey

2013-03-19T00:30:00-05:00

Farther and Wilder The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey

From the Hardcover edition.

Random House New Releases - Biography & Autobiography - Literary - Between June 19, 2012 and July 19, 2013.

An Afghanistan Picture Show by William T. Vollmann

An Afghanistan Picture Show Or, How I Saved the WorldWritten by William T. Vollmann

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other ConversationsWritten by Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other ConversationsWritten by Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Kit Maude

Dreadful by David Margolick

Dreadful The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne BurnsWritten by David Margolick

Dreadful by David Margolick

Dreadful The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne BurnsWritten by David Margolick

College of One by Wendy W. Fairey

College of One Written by Sheilah Graham Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey

College of One by Sheilah Graham

College of One Written by Sheilah Graham Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey

The Difficulty of Being by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Difficulty of Being Written by Jean Cocteau Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Difficulty of Being by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Difficulty of Being Written by Jean Cocteau Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Fading Smile by Peter Davison

The Fading Smile Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,Written by Peter Davison

Dared And Done by Julia Markus

Dared And Done The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert BrowningWritten by Julia Markus

Walter Pater by Denis Donoghue

Walter Pater Lover of Strange SoulsWritten by Denis Donoghue

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather by Janis Stout

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Written by Willa Cather Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather by Janis Stout

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Written by Willa Cather Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout

Istanbul by John Lee

Istanbul Memories and the CityWritten by Orhan Pamuk Read by John Lee

Stations of the Heart by Richard Lischer

Stations of the Heart Parting with a SonWritten by Richard Lischer

Stations of the Heart by Richard Lischer

Stations of the Heart Parting with a SonWritten by Richard Lischer

Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes

Shelley: The Pursuit Written by Richard Holmes Introduction by Richard Holmes

Farther and Wilder by Blake Bailey

Farther and Wilder The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles JacksonWritten by Blake Bailey

Farther and Wilder by Blake Bailey

Farther and Wilder The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles JacksonWritten by Blake Bailey

An Afghanistan Picture Show Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

Dreadful The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick

Dreadful The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick

College of One
Written by Sheilah Graham
Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey

College of One
Written by Sheilah Graham
Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey

The Difficulty of Being
Written by Jean Cocteau
Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge
Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Difficulty of Being
Written by Jean Cocteau
Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge
Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Fading Smile Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,
Written by Peter Davison

Dared And Done The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
Written by Julia Markus

Walter Pater Lover of Strange Souls
Written by Denis Donoghue

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Written by Willa Cather
Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Written by Willa Cather
Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout

Istanbul Memories and the City
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Read by John Lee

Stations of the Heart Parting with a Son
Written by Richard Lischer

Stations of the Heart Parting with a Son
Written by Richard Lischer

Shelley: The Pursuit
Written by Richard Holmes
Introduction by Richard Holmes

Farther and Wilder The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey

Farther and Wilder The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
Written by Blake Bailey