I started reading James Baldwin when I was a fifteen-year-old boy in search of rational explanations for the contradictions I was confronting in my already nomadic life, which would take me from Haiti to Congo to France to Germany and to the United States of America.
Read more ›Vintage Shorts is pleased to present Vintage Shorts Political Selections, a collection of essential pieces for politics junkies that spotlight the outstanding tradition of American political writing.
Read more ›Born in 1947 into elite black society in Chicago, Margo Jefferson spent most of her life among the black aristocracy. In her memoir, Negroland, Jefferson gives us an inside look […]
Read more ›“I love books, and I love what the hand of mankind produces, whether painting or music, opera. I just think it’s wonderful that we have that in our life,” says Patti Smith in an interview with PBS NewsHour as she discusses her latest book, M Train.
Read more ›These books celebrate all of the things you love about sports, from inspirational memoirs to insightful looks at athletes as icons.
Read more ›Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Foxfire with Vintage Shorts and The Foxfire Americana Library. For fifty years, the Foxfire Fund has preserved and fostered Appalachian culture through their bestselling series […]
Read more ›It’s June and once again time to shop for Father’s Day. After a decade of failed gift attempts, you’ve resigned yourself to yet another year of giving your dad a […]
Read more ›Here is a dark secret of Washington, D.C.: If you want to halt an ideological opponent from advancing their cause, you can hire armies of lobbyists or make dozens of […]
Read more ›Fish Soup with Matzo Balls and Aioli | Excerpted from The Covenant Kitchen by Jeff and Jodie Morgan We love fish soup. One long-ago Passover, we suddenly wondered, “Why don’t we make matzo ball […]
Read more ›In celebration of Short Story Month, Vintage Shorts, an ebook program of Vintage Books and Anchor Books, will be releasing one short story each day in May. Included are works […]
Read more ›