Art & Literature

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley....

A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty.

This is the book that changed America....

Antony Penrose's tribute to his mother, Lee Miller, brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.

Never before has a member of the Packer family co-operated with a writer to tell their story. In his biography The Price of Fortune, one of the nation's richest and most psychoanalyzed men opens up in an attempt to make sense of his roller-coaster life....

Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating...

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. He records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India"....

Britain's national icon, Michael Parkinson reads his long-awaited autobiography....

Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution....

Salvador Dalí was a master of the surreal. His paintings are known as “dream photographs”: snapshots of nightmarish scenes brought to life in stunning detail....

Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford....

Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a listen of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of 21st-century art as well as anyone interested in American and European culture....

In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod....

A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....

Born to the ranks of the lower English gentry in 1775, Jane Austen led what some have mistakenly described as an ordinary and unremarkable life - a life that ended all too soon at the age of 41. But Austen drew inspiration for six novels that all rank as literary masterpieces....

Deliberate Cruelty explores the intertwined fates of literary icon Truman Capote and infamous socialite Ann Woodward—sweeping us to the upper echelons of Manhattan’s high society, where falls from grace are all the more shocking.

Retired wreckhead Catherine Gray, author of surprise best seller The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, is now in her ninth sober year and has learnt a damn sight more....

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known - and controversial - writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end, fits into none of them....

In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.

One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: Diane von Furstenberg shares stories about becoming the woman she wanted to be....

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....

A flicker of light almost appears at the end of the tunnel for prisoner FF8282, as he is transferred to North Sea Camp near Boston...

Nella primavera del 1976, a Hong Kong, un vecchio indovino cinese avverte l'autore di questo libro: "Attento! Nel 1993 corri un gran rischio...

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....

Artist. Public intellectual. Political activist. James Baldwin was all of these and more. Raised in the slums of Depression-era Harlem in New York City, Baldwin would become an author and activist of international renown—one whose legacy has continued long beyond his death in 1987. Who was James Baldwin? How did he become the master of multiple literary genres and a champion for some of the era’s most notable political and social causes? And how is his influence still being felt today?

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic.

Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.

世界の美しさと，人間の苦しみと――双方に忠実であろうとしつつ，生きる意味を探求し続けた作家，カミュ．『異邦人』『ペスト』をはじめとする作品は，時をこえて私たち自身の生をも映し出している．

Alessandro Bozzo è un giornalista calabrese alla soglia dei quarant’anni. Un bivio della vita al quale arriva con un carico di minacce da parte della ’ndrangheta, un lavoro sempre più in bilico e un matrimonio che sta per fallire. All’improvviso, da cronista di provincia coraggioso e mai asservito a potenti e intoccabili, si rende conto che tutto ciò in cui crede e per cui ha sacrificato l’esistenza sta per crollare.

50 kurze Biografien berühmter Personen der Literaturgeschichte sind in dieser Hörbuch Box versammelt! In jeweils ca. 5 Minuten erfahren die Hörer das Wichtigste über Schriftsteller wie Thomas Mann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Allan Poe, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Böll, Kurt Tucholsky, Astrid Lindgren, Paulo Coelho, Agatha Christie, Stefan Zweig, Erich Kästner, Philip Roth, den Brüdern Grimm und viele mehr! Unterhaltung und Bildung in einem!

Follow a journalist and TV producer from 48 Hours and 60 Minutes as she carves out a career in the ruthless, knives-out world of true crime television . . . one killer story at a time.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. Addressing the ethical stakes involved in studying past lives, Stephen J. Campbell shows how this invented Leonardo has invited speculation from figures ranging from art dealers and curators to scholars, scientists, and biographers.

La actualidad de los grandes autores, como Montaigne, es permanente y múltiple. Pero Stefan Zweig, en un momento en que se ciernen sobre él el drama de la guerra y una íntima y trágica desesperanza, fija su atención en un elemento que es fundamental en el autor de Los ensayos: el esfuerzo por mantener a salvo la propia independencia en una sociedad cada vez más brutal y gregaria. El texto de Zweig sobre Montaigne no es un frío estudio destinado a especialistas, sino una obra emocionada y vibrante dirigida al público habitual del autor vienés.

This is the previously untold backstory of Ong's Hat, the Infinite Game, and proto-ARG. It weaves together early rudimentary Artificial Intelligence (AI), encounters with disembodied intelligence, emergence, and the budding Internet culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Elements of psychedelic culture, Avant Garde art, punk rock, industrial music, experimental theater, improv, method acting, hermetic magick, beat literature, Esalen, the works of Philip K. Dick, and more converge to create this modern tale of a spiritual quest.

Three complaisant kids, two stormy parents, one anxious French poodle, too many U-haul trailers, and the potholed road of the early 1960s. Searching for Alpha Centauri is American Public Television artist Gary Spetz's boyhood memoir of living a nomadic life with an impetuous mother, a discontent casino-security-guard step-father, an anxious French poodle, and two complaisant siblings -- during the early 1960s. The artist/author paints his moving landscape with words. He adeptly colors these words with both humor and tenderness.

Jim Zervanos, a seasoned high-school English teacher and father of two, embarks on a mission at the cusp of a new school year. He realizes that today's youth are thrust into a tumultuous world and burdened with saving it. To chronicle this extraordinary period in America, he assigns himself a unique task: keeping a journal.

In the Hide is Gordon's emotionally honest and raw account of a brutal childhood in Glasgow and Mull, and the escape and solace he found – and continues to find – in the natural world around him. An intimate and inspiring account of resilience in the face of hardship, In the Hide marks the arrival of a bold new voice in nature writing.

Tess Chakkalakal gives listeners the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to parents who were considered "mixed race." Though light-skinned, Chesnutt remained a member of the black community throughout his life. He studied among students at the State Colored Normal School who were formerly enslaved. He became a teacher in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction. His life in the South of those years, the issue of race, and how he himself identified as Black informed much of his later writing.

В 1889 году художник, журналист и один из теоретиков символизма Эмиль Бернар написал небольшую заметку, посвященную творчеству Поля Сезанна. Долгие годы Бернар был поклонником художника, но познакомился с ним лично лишь в 1904 году, остановившись на месяц в Экс-ан-Провансе – родном городе и месте силы Сезанна. Почти каждый день Эмиль Бернар навещал Сезанна. Вместе они ходили на пленэры и много говорили об искусстве. Вспоминая эти встречи, а также перечитывая письма, полученные от своего учителя, Эмиль Бернар и написал эту небольшую книгу воспоминаний о великом художнике.

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame—and scandal—before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography.

In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust. Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, this book chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II while also telling the story of the diary—its multiple drafts, its discovery, its reception, and its message for today’s world.

Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see himself in the fields of Art and Design. But in lectures, critiques, and in the books he read, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity or who GOT him. So he started asking himself questions: What did it mean to be a graphic designer with his point of view? What did it mean to be a Black graphic designer?

Творчество Рюноскэ Акутагавы пользуется заслуженной популярностью как в нашей стране, так и во всем мире, а его самые известные повести и рассказы, такие как "В стране водяных", "В чаще" и "Ворота Расёмон", регулярно переиздаются. Но собранные в этом издании письма школьным друзьям, учителям и коллегам-писателям позволяют взглянуть на известного японского литератора с другой, не столь известной стороны и показывают нам Акутагаву-человека, со всеми его надеждами, мечтами и разочарованиями.

Après avoir été tour à tour humoriste et animateur de télévision, c’est aujourd’hui dans l’écriture que Dany Turcotte prend plaisir. D. Turcotte et fils est son premier livre. Il y raconte son enfance à Jonquière, au Saguenay, au sein d’une famille marquée par l’alcoolisme de son père, la faillite de l’entreprise familiale, D. Turcotte et fils, et le divorce de ses parents.