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Give the Gift of Reading this Graduation Season!
Graduation season is upon us, and what better gift for those who are finishing high school or college than a copy of beloved storyteller Pat Conroy’s My Reading Life, a celebration of the books and writers that have shaped his life?
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A Berner and a Fifth of Scotch, Shaken Not Stirred Please!
Gloria and Martin’s marriage is in trouble, so they get a dog. Enter the ring Hola! Charming, adorable, happy-go-lucky, and very high-strung, Hola means well—she REALLY does—but lacks any sort of guidance. Soon enough, starved of any sort of discipline and attention, she begins to do what any child in a troubled marriage does—act out!
“Hola, surprise, surprise, grows enormous, while also growing out of control, ignoring commands, sprawling, immovable, across the bed. Add to this rowdy mix the fact that Kihn drinks way too much and that his wife, Gloria, is on the verge of leaving him, and you have a recipe for a surefire heartbreaking bestseller along the lines of Marley and Me.”—Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Sign Up for a Chance to Win a Signed Copy of Art and Madness!
Luminous and intensely personal, Art and Madness (on sale March 15) recounts the lost years of Anne Roiphe’s twenties, when the soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed author put her dreams of becoming a writer on hold to devote herself to the magnetic but coercive male artists of the period. Sign up for the Nan A. Talese newsletter for your chance to win a signed copy!
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Q&A: Mark Richard
In a revealing Q&A, acclaimed memoirist Mark Richard discusses the stigma of being born a “special child,” his career in television, the proclivities of Southern writers, and the conditions under which he writes best.
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“Why Alpha Male Writers Became Extinct”
In a WSJ essay Anne Roiphe recounts the decade during which she put her dreams of becoming a writer on hold to devote herself to the magnetic but coercive male artists of the period. “Once upon a time the stars of the book review section were roaming wild in the wee hours of the night, like so many dinosaurs in the forests primeval.” Her memoir Art and Madness goes on sale March 15.
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House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer’s Journey Home by Mark Richard
How do you write a memoir without using “I”? Allow the brilliant author Mark Richard to show you how it’s done. As a young man, Richard, defying both his doctors and parents, set out to experience as much of the world as he could — as a disc jockey, fishing trawler deckhand, house painter, naval [...]
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New in Paperback: The Bread of Angels, by Stephanie Saldaña
The Bread of Angels is a memoir that tells the story of the year that Stephanie Saldaña spent in Damascus, Syria, on a Fulbright scholarship. Although her given task was to study, “The truth was,” she says, “I was running away from a broken heart.” During Stephanie’s year in Damascus, she meets a number of people who change her way of thinking and alter the course of her life, including, unexpectedly, a novice monk with whom she falls in love.
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Avi Steinberg at NYPL Feb. 9
Avi Steinberg, author of the “acidly funny” (NYTBR) memoir Running the Books, will speak at the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan branch this Wednesday, February 9 at 6:30 pm. Details here. The author will be in discussion with Nicholas Higgins, the NYPL Correctional Services Librarian, about his memoir, a trenchant exploration of prison culture that addresses the hilarious and intricate moral puzzles he faced during his two years as a Boston prison librarian.
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Jules Feiffer: National Jewish Book Award Finalist
Jules Feiffer’s “resonant, self-lacerating and frequently hilarious” (New York Times Book Review) memoir Backing Into Forward has been named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award! The ceremony to honor the 2010 winners will be held on March 9th in NYC at the Center for Jewish History. This event is at 8:00PM and is free and open to the public.
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New Memoir from Legendary Pianist Leon Fleisher
The pianist Leon Fleisher—whose student–teacher lineage linked him to Beethoven by way of his instructor, Artur Schnabel—displayed an exceptional gift from his earliest years. And then, like the hero of a Greek tragedy, he was struck down in his prime: at thirty-six years old, he suddenly and mysteriously became unable to use two fingers of [...]
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