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Steal the Menu
A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces...
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Steal the Menu
A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $13.99
A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $13.99
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces...
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Genius in Disguise
Harold Ross of The New Yorker
Written by Thomas Kunkel
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $11.99
This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos... Read more >
Harold Ross of The New Yorker
Written by Thomas Kunkel
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $11.99
This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos... Read more >
Happy Days
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $19.99
Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates... Read more >
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $19.99
Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates... Read more >
Heathen Days
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $19.99
In the third volume of his autobiography, H. L. Mencken looks back on his life and declares it "very busy and excessively pleasant." He imparts the impressive education he received from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, and the survival techniques he employed at Baltimore Polytechnic, where he learned... Read more >
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $19.99
In the third volume of his autobiography, H. L. Mencken looks back on his life and declares it "very busy and excessively pleasant." He imparts the impressive education he received from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, and the survival techniques he employed at Baltimore Polytechnic, where he learned... Read more >
Newspaper Days
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $19.99
The period covered is that of his professional nonage—from his entry into journalism as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899 to 1906. It was not all Baltimore, however, for he went into brief exile when the fire of 1904 destroyed the plant and forced the paper to print... Read more >
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $19.99
The period covered is that of his professional nonage—from his entry into journalism as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899 to 1906. It was not all Baltimore, however, for he went into brief exile when the fire of 1904 destroyed the plant and forced the paper to print... Read more >
Rage for Fame
The Ascent of Clare Booth Luce
Written by Sylvia Morris
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $20.99
Detailed and rich with mesmerizing narrative, Rage for Fame recounts the story of the flowering years of Clare Booth Luce--a former congresswoman and editor of Vanity Fair--a striking woman whose private life was as intriguing and spectacular as her public life. 45 photos.
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The Ascent of Clare Booth Luce
Written by Sylvia Morris
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $20.99
Detailed and rich with mesmerizing narrative, Rage for Fame recounts the story of the flowering years of Clare Booth Luce--a former congresswoman and editor of Vanity Fair--a striking woman whose private life was as intriguing and spectacular as her public life. 45 photos.
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Lucking Out
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00
From one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful/wonderful Seventies.
In the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter...
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The Man Who Went to War
A Reporter's Memoir from Libya and the Arab Uprising
Written by Patrick Graham
Format: eBook, 57 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $2.99
Almost a decade since deciding to give up war reporting full-time, and at the unexpected prodding of his wife, award-winning journalist Patrick Graham travels to the heart of the Libyan Revolution and the Arab Spring. He delivers a story by turns harrowing and comic, rich in both dramatic, on-the-ground reportage and... Read more >
A Reporter's Memoir from Libya and the Arab Uprising
Written by Patrick Graham
Format: eBook, 57 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $2.99
Almost a decade since deciding to give up war reporting full-time, and at the unexpected prodding of his wife, award-winning journalist Patrick Graham travels to the heart of the Libyan Revolution and the Arab Spring. He delivers a story by turns harrowing and comic, rich in both dramatic, on-the-ground reportage and... Read more >
Bellow
A Biography
Written by James Atlas
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $22.99
With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression, World War II, the upheavals of the sixties—and amid all the... Read more >
A Biography
Written by James Atlas
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $22.99
With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression, World War II, the upheavals of the sixties—and amid all the... Read more >
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Proud Highway
Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Edited by Douglas Brinkley
Foreword by William J. Kennedy
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $12.99
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother... Read more >
Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Edited by Douglas Brinkley
Foreword by William J. Kennedy
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $12.99
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother... Read more >
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Key Moments
Experiences in a Dedicated Life
Written by Liz Mohn
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $23.00
"You always saw the world as your workplace."
In 2009, this was how Reinhard Mohn--the man who turned Bertelsmann AG from an unremarkable, postwar German business into a successful, international media conglomerate--described the professional dedication of his wife, Liz Mohn. Born into a seemingly hopeless world, this girl from Wiedenbrück, Germany, grew... Read more >
Experiences in a Dedicated Life
Written by Liz Mohn
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $23.00
"You always saw the world as your workplace."
In 2009, this was how Reinhard Mohn--the man who turned Bertelsmann AG from an unremarkable, postwar German business into a successful, international media conglomerate--described the professional dedication of his wife, Liz Mohn. Born into a seemingly hopeless world, this girl from Wiedenbrück, Germany, grew... Read more >
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Key Moments
Experiences in a Dedicated Life
Written by Liz Mohn
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
"You always saw the world as your workplace."
In 2009, this was how Reinhard Mohn--the man who turned Bertelsmann AG from an unremarkable, postwar German business into a successful, international media conglomerate--described the professional dedication of his wife, Liz Mohn. Born into a seemingly hopeless world, this girl from Wiedenbrück, Germany, grew... Read more >
Experiences in a Dedicated Life
Written by Liz Mohn
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
"You always saw the world as your workplace."
In 2009, this was how Reinhard Mohn--the man who turned Bertelsmann AG from an unremarkable, postwar German business into a successful, international media conglomerate--described the professional dedication of his wife, Liz Mohn. Born into a seemingly hopeless world, this girl from Wiedenbrück, Germany, grew... Read more >
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Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $27.00
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $27.00
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
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Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $13.99
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $13.99
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
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Black Sun
The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
Written by Geoffrey Wolff
Afterword by Geoffrey Wolff
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $19.95
Includes an afterword by the author.
Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost... Read more >
The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
Written by Geoffrey Wolff
Afterword by Geoffrey Wolff
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $19.95
Includes an afterword by the author.
Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost... Read more >
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Almost a Family
Written by John Darnton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
Written by John Darnton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author: a beautifully crafted memoir of his lifelong chase after his father’s shadow.
John was eleven months old when his father, Barney Darnton—a war correspondent for The New York Times—was killed in World War II. John's mother, a well-known reporter and editor, perpetuated a myth...
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Lucking Out
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”
That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no... Read more >
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”
That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no... Read more >
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eBook and a
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Lucking Out
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $11.99
"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”
That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no... Read more >
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $11.99
"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”
That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no... Read more >
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My Vast Fortune
The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist
Written by Andrew Tobias
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
"This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit... Read more >
The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist
Written by Andrew Tobias
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
"This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit... Read more >
Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Written by Amy Alexander
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race... Read more >
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Written by Amy Alexander
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race... Read more >
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Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Written by Amy Alexander
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race... Read more >
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Written by Amy Alexander
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race... Read more >
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Camelia
Save Yourself by Telling the Truth-A Memoir of Iran
Written by Camelia Entekhabifard
Translated by George Murer
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Camelia Entekhabifard was six years old in 1979 when the shah of Iran was overthrown by revolutionary supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. By the age of sixteen, Camelia was a nationally celebrated poet, and at eighteen she was one of the youngest reformist journalists in Tehran. Just eight years later she... Read more >
Save Yourself by Telling the Truth-A Memoir of Iran
Written by Camelia Entekhabifard
Translated by George Murer
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Camelia Entekhabifard was six years old in 1979 when the shah of Iran was overthrown by revolutionary supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. By the age of sixteen, Camelia was a nationally celebrated poet, and at eighteen she was one of the youngest reformist journalists in Tehran. Just eight years later she... Read more >
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The Death of Ben Linder
The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua
Written by Joan Kruckewitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story.
In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American... Read more >
The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua
Written by Joan Kruckewitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story.
In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American... Read more >
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First Loves
A Memoir
Written by Ted Solotaroff
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation, the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals himself here as a thinking man with a big heart and gaping wounds of love that are not disconnected from the contributions... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Ted Solotaroff
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation, the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals himself here as a thinking man with a big heart and gaping wounds of love that are not disconnected from the contributions... Read more >
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