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In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the…
woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines.Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing-very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh.Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, where her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included members of the avant-garde like Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhugh's novels, written in an era of political defiance, are full of resistance: to authority, to conformity, and even -- radically, for a children's author -- to make-believe.As a children's author and a lesbian, Fitzhugh was often pressured to disguise her true nature. Sometimes You Have to Lie tells the story of her hidden life and of the creation of her masterpiece, which remains long after her death as a testament to the complicated relationship between truth, secrecy, and individualism.Par Kurt Vonnegut. 2020
A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by…
their daughter&“If ever I do write anything of length—good or bad—it will be written with you in mind.&”Kurt Vonnegut&’s eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother&’s attic when she stumbled upon a dusty, aged box. Inside, she discovered an unexpected treasure: more than two hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship.The letters begin in 1941, after the former schoolmates reunited at age nineteen, sparked a passionate summer romance, and promised to keep in touch when they headed off to their respective colleges. And they did, through Jane&’s conscientious studying and Kurt&’s struggle to pass chemistry. The letters continue after Kurt dropped out and enlisted in the army in 1943, while Jane in turn graduated and worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. They also detail Kurt&’s deployment to Europe in 1944, where he was taken prisoner of war and declared missing in action, and his eventual safe return home and the couple&’s marriage in 1945.Full of the humor and wit that we have come to associate with Kurt Vonnegut, the letters also reveal little-known private corners of his mind. Passionate and tender, they form an illuminating portrait of a young soldier&’s life in World War II as he attempts to come to grips with love and mortality. And they bring to light the origins of Vonnegut the writer, when Jane was the only person who believed in and supported him supported him, the young couple having no idea how celebrated he would become.A beautiful full-color collection of handwritten letters, notes, sketches, and comics, interspersed with Edith&’s insights and family memories, Love, Kurt is an intimate record of a young man growing into himself, a fascinating account of a writer finding his voice, and a moving testament to the life-altering experience of falling in love.Par Garrison Keillor. 2020
With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his…
own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who&’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, &“I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That&’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I&’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.&”Par Ángel Gilberto Adame. 2020
Prólogo de César Arístides. A mediados del siglo xx Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz y José Bergamín eran las voces más…
influyentes de la literatura hispanoamericana. Sus ideas políticas tenían amplia repercusión, esto los llevó a crear alianzas y rupturas marcadas por el encono en sus cartas, la mordacidad en sus publicaciones, incluso puñetazos entre Paz y Neruda. Pasiones, fracturas y rebeliones: Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda y José Bergamín, es una investigación lúdica y demoledora que parte del primer encuentro de estos tres literatos durante el II Congreso de Escritores para la Defensa de la Cultura, celebrado en España en 1937, recrea la atmósfera de España durante la Guerra civil, la suerte de los refugiados en México y las pugnas intelectuales en torno al comunismo, la trampa stalinista y las declaraciones políticas. El libro da luz a las vidas de personajes terribles como Ricardo Paseyro, Tina Modotti, la vehemente revolucionaria Margarita Nelken y el intenso José Ferrel. Nos muestra a un José Revueltas apabullado por Neruda; a Villaurrutia, Novo y Usigli atacando a Bergamín con versos encendidos y a un André Gide expulsado del anhelo comunista. Ángel Gilberto Adame apuesta por el dato inaudito y raro, la fecha extraviada en las injurias y los encarnizados debates; el libro se arma con una espléndida bibliografía, conversaciones con estudiosos de la literatura hispanoamericana, fotografías inéditas y la consulta de archivos históricos olvidados. Adame: dueño de una ironía filosa y delicada, muestra a Bergamín, Neruda y Paz como hombres tenaces en la defensa de sus ideas, marcados por sus yerros y declaraciones políticas al filo de la navaja, esto es, profundamente humanos.Par Jim Walsh. 2020
A veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for…
more than thirty years Two or three times a week, as a columnist, hustling freelance writer, and genuinely curious reporter, Jim Walsh would hang out in a coffee shop or a bar, or wander in a club or on a side street, and invariably a story would unfold—one more chapter in the story of Minneapolis, the city that was his home and his beat for more than thirty years. Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis tells that story, collecting the encounters and adventures and lives that make a city hum—and make South Minneapolis what it is. Here is a man who drives around Minneapolis in a van that sports a neon sign and keeps a running tally of the soldiers killed in Iraq. Here is another, haunted by the woman he fell in love with, and lost, many years ago at the Minnesota Music Café on St. Paul&’s East Side. Here are strangers on a cold night on the corner of Forty-sixth and Nicollet, finding comfort in each other&’s company in the wake of the shootings in Paris. And here are Walsh&’s own memories catching up with him: the woman who joined him in representing &“junior royalty&” for the Minneapolis Aquatennial when they were both seven years old; the lost friend, Soul Asylum&’s Karl Mueller, recalled while sitting on his memorial bench at Walsh&’s go-to refuge, the Rose Gardens near Lake Harriet. These everyday interactions, ordinary people, and quiet moments in Jim Walsh&’s writing create an extraordinary picture of a city&’s life. James Joyce famously bragged that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be rebuilt in its entirety from his written works. The Minneapolis that Jim Walsh maps is more a matter of heart, of urban life built on human connections, than of streets intersecting and literal landmarks: it is that lived city, documented in measures large and small, that his book brings so vividly to mind, drafting a blueprint of a community&’s soul and inviting a reader into the boundless, enduring experience of Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis.Par Anca Vlasopolos. 2000
No Return Address is a vivid memoir of a life in exile and a poignant meditation on pleasure and loss,…
repression and transgression, and the complexities of love under harsh human conditions. In recounting her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States, Anca Vlasopolos writes movingly of the peculiar attributes of displacement in the contemporary world—the hyphenated, ambiguous identities; the purgatory in which immigrants await transfer to another country; the mysterious nostalgia for places and events dimly recalled. Throughout, she describes the constant search for a place to truly call home.Vlasopolos renders a clear and loving portrait of her mother, an Auschwitz survivor courageously raising a young girl by herself after the death of her husband, a political dissident. She details their years of limbo in Brussels and Paris and of settlement in Detroit, Michigan, as well as her ultimate decision to identify the United States as home, inspired by the strong multicultural quality that allows so many others to do the same.Par D Ruggles. 2008
In the course of my research writes D Fairchild Ruggles I devoured Arabic agricultural manuals…
from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries I love gardening and in these texts I was able to enter the minds of agriculturalists and botanists of a thousand years ago who likewise believed it was important and interesting to record all the known ways of propagating olive trees the various uses of rosemary and how best to fertilize a garden bed Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful However such simplification Ruggles contends denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form Islamic Gardens and Landscapes immerses the reader in the world of the architects of the great gardens of the Islamic world from medieval Morocco to contemporary India Just as Islamic culture is historically dense sophisticated and complex so too is the history of its built landscapes Islamic gardens began from the practical need to organize the surrounding space of human civilization tame nature enhance the earth s yield and create a legible map on which to distribute natural resources Ruggles follows the evolution of these early farming efforts to their aristocratic apex in famous formal gardens of the Alhambra in Spain and the Taj Mahal in Agra Whether in a humble city home or a royal courtyard the garden has several defining characteristics which Ruggles discusses Most notable is an enclosed space divided into four equal parts surrounding a central design element The traditional Islamic garden is inwardly focused usually surrounded by buildings or in the form of a courtyard Water provides a counterpoint to the portioned green sections Ranging across poetry court documents agronomy manuals and early garden representations and richly illustrated with pictures and site plans Islamic Gardens and Landscapes is a book of impressive scope sure to interest scholars and enthusiasts alikePar Lt. Joe Kenda, Pete Crooks. 2015
The pitch went like this: Chris Butler, a retired cop, ran a private investigator firm in Concord, California. His business…
had a fascinating angle-his firm was staffed entirely by soccer moms.In fact, Butler employed PI Super Moms: attractive, organized, smart, and trained in investigative techniques, self-defense, and weaponry. This American Life host Ira Glass described them as "MILF: Charlie's Angels."When this story came across Pete Crooks's desk when he was working at Diablo magazine in 2010, he was instantly hooked. He'd heard a little bit about Butler and his super moms in the news; they'd been featured in People magazine and on Dr. Phil. What Butler's publicist was offering was too tantalizing to pass up: an opportunity to ride along with Butler and a few of his sexy PIs as they prepared to start filming a reality TV show.But after the ride-along-and after he started receiving mysterious emails from one of Butler's employees-Crooks started to realize something didn't seem right. After doing a little digging, he discovered the "sting" he'd seen only had one real victim...him. The PI bust had been a setup.Crooks wasn't a hardboiled crime reporter. He did lifestyle pieces for a regional magazine. The more he learned about Butler's operation, the more he realized he was in far over his head. But swallowing his fears, he decided he was going to write an expose on Butler and his entire organization. He soon found himself deep in the underbelly of fake sting operations, wannabe celebrities, police corruption, drug-dealing, reality television, double-crossing employees, and more twists and turns than a dozen crime thrillers.Par Michael Chabon. 2018
Magical prose stylist Michael Chabon Michiko Kakutani New York Times delivers a collection of…
essays heartfelt humorous insightful wise on the meaning of fatherhood For the September 2016 issue of GQ Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon then thirteen to Paris Men s Fashion Week Possessed with a precocious sense of style Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season Chabon Sr whose interest in clothing stops at thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Herm s neckties sat idly by staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing was a massive waste of time Despite his own indifference however what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and from fashion shows was a deep respect for his son s passion The piece quickly became a viral sensation With the GQ story as its centerpiece and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction Pops illuminates the meaning magic and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon canPar Michael Blood. 2020
An in-depth guide to finding the right cannabis strain for your needs—both on a recreational and medicinal level. With an…
ever-increasing number of states legalizing the use of marijuana, the buyer is faces with the question: &“Which strain is going to give me the best results?&” Thankfully, in 100 Best Cannabis Strains, you will be able to find all the answers to your questions. With in-depth details on each strain, readers will be able to determine which is right for them. Having trouble sleeping? Consider Orange Tree. Looking to relax? Give OGKush a try. In addition to images for each strain, readers will be supplied pertinent information to best help find the perfect remedy. Such details include: Strain Ratio (Sativa/Indica)Amount of THC and CBDPotential Side EffectsMedicinal BenefitsAnd much more While there are literally thousands of strains—and more coming out each day—this pocket guide will help you navigate through all that cannabis has to offer. Whether it&’s Bubba Kush, Charlotte&’s Web, Cherry Pie, White Widow, Jack Herer, Confidential Cheese, or Granddaddy Purple, 100 Best Cannabis Stains is your one-stop-shop to getting the most out of your cannabis.Par Cath Senker. 2020
Bring history home and meet some of the world's greatest game changers! Get inspired by the true story of the…
author of Harry Potter--the bestselling book series of all time! This biography series is for kids who loved Who Was? and are ready for the next level.On July 22, 2008, J. K. Rowling shattered world records. With 8.3 million books sold in the US alone within a day of its release, the last installment in the Harry Potter series seemed like a thing of magic. From a childhood spent telling stories to writing the first Harry Potter book in cafés while her baby slept, J. K. Rowling's life is a tale of imagination and dedication. Find out how this girl who loved fantasy blazed a trail in children's books!Trailblazers is a biography series that celebrates the lives of amazing pioneers, past and present, from all over the world. Get inspired by more Trailblazers: Neil Armstrong, Jackie Robinson, Jane Goodall, Harriet Tubman, Albert Einstein, Beyoncé, and Simone Biles. What kind of trail will you blaze?Par Barbara M. Thiers. 2020
A treasury like no other Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing…
the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor.Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world&’s flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today. At its heart, Herbarium is a compelling reminder of one of humanity&’s better impulses: to save things—not just for ourselves, but for generations to come.Par Rachel Hope Cleves. 2020
The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is…
shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood intergenerational sex can be seen with startling clarity in the life of British writer Norman Douglas (1868–1952), who was a beloved and popular author, a friend of luminaries like Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, and D.H. Lawrence, and an unrepentant and uncloseted pederast. Rachel Hope Cleves’s careful study opens a window onto the social history of intergenerational sex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing how charisma, celebrity, and contemporary standards protected Douglas from punishment—until they didn’t. Unspeakable approaches Douglas as neither monster nor literary hero, but as a man who participated in an exploitative sexual subculture that was tolerated in ways we may find hard to understand. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, police records, novels, and photographs—including sources by the children Douglas encountered—Cleves identifies the cultural practices that structured pedophilic behaviors in England, Italy, and other places Douglas favored. Her book delineates how approaches to adult-child sex have changed over time and offers insight into how society can confront similar scandals today, celebrity and otherwise.Par Rachel Hope Cleves. 2020
The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is…
shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood intergenerational sex can be seen with startling clarity in the life of British writer Norman Douglas (1868–1952), who was a beloved and popular author, a friend of luminaries like Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, and D.H. Lawrence, and an unrepentant and uncloseted pederast. Rachel Hope Cleves’s careful study opens a window onto the social history of intergenerational sex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing how charisma, celebrity, and contemporary standards protected Douglas from punishment—until they didn’t. Unspeakable approaches Douglas as neither monster nor literary hero, but as a man who participated in an exploitative sexual subculture that was tolerated in ways we may find hard to understand. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, police records, novels, and photographs—including sources by the children Douglas encountered—Cleves identifies the cultural practices that structured pedophilic behaviors in England, Italy, and other places Douglas favored. Her book delineates how approaches to adult-child sex have changed over time and offers insight into how society can confront similar scandals today, celebrity and otherwise.Par Sylvana Tomaselli. 2021
A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of…
the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft’s thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of Wollstonecraft herself, as a philosopher and moralist who deftly tackled major social and political issues and the arguments of such figures as Edmund Burke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Adam Smith. Reading Wollstonecraft through the lens of the politics and culture of her own time, this book restores her to her rightful place as a major eighteenth-century thinker, reminding us why her work still resonates today.The book’s format echoes one that Wollstonecraft favored in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: short essays paired with concise headings. Under titles such as “Painting,” “Music,” “Memory,” “Property and Appearance,” and “Rank and Luxury,” Tomaselli explores not only what Wollstonecraft enjoyed and valued, but also her views on society, knowledge and the mind, human nature, and the problem of evil—and how a society based on mutual respect could fight it. The resulting picture of Wollstonecraft reveals her as a particularly engaging author and an eloquent participant in enduring social and political concerns.Drawing us into Wollstonecraft’s approach to the human condition and the debates of her day, Wollstonecraft ultimately invites us to consider timeless issues with her, so that we can become better attuned to the world as she saw it then, and as we might wish to see it now.Par Nancy K. Miller. 2019
My Brilliant Friends is a group biography of three women’s friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the…
book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women’s bonds.Nancy K. Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Their relationships were simultaneously intimate and professional, emotional and intellectual, animated by the ferment of the women’s movement. Friendships like these sustained the generation of women whose entrance into male-dominated professions is still reshaping American society. The stories of their intertwined lives and books embody feminism’s belief in the political importance of personal experience. Reflecting on aging and loss, ambition and rivalry, competition and collaboration, Miller shows why and how friendship’s ties matter in the worlds of work and love. Inspired in part by the portraits of the intensely enmeshed lives in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friends provides a passionate and timely vision of friendship between women.Par Vladislav Khodasevich. 2019
Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our…
time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia’s literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era.Written at various times throughout the 1920s and 1930s following the deaths of its subjects, Necropolis is a literary graveyard in which an entire movement, Russian Symbolism, is buried. Recalling figures including Alexander Blok, Sergey Esenin, Fyodor Sologub, and the socialist realist Maxim Gorky, Khodasevich tells the story of how their lives and artworks intertwined, including a notoriously tempestuous love triangle among Nina Petrovskaya, Valery Bryusov, and Andrei Bely. He testifies to the seductive and often devastating power of the Symbolist attempt to turn one’s life into a work of art and, ultimately, how one man was left with the task of memorializing his fellow artists after their deaths. Khodasevich’s portraits deal with revolution, disillusionment, emigration, suicide, the vocation of the poet, and the place of the artist in society. One of the greatest memoirs in Russian literature, Necropolis is a compelling work from an overlooked writer whose gifts for observation and irony show the early twentieth-century Russian literary scene in a new and more intimate light.Par Joanna Atherfold Finn, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz. 2020
In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group…
of people in the city of Perth, the Plastic Free July movement has grown into a 250-million strong community across 177 countries, empowering people to reduce single-use plastic consumption and create a cleaner future.This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns took off and shares lessons from its success. From narrating marine-debris research expeditions to tracking what actually happens to our waste to sharing insights from behavioral research, it speaks to the massive scale of the plastic waste problem and how we can tackle it together. Interweaving interviews from participants, activists, and experts, Plastic Free tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people have created change in their homes, communities, workplaces, schools, businesses, and beyond.It is easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of global environmental problems and wonder what difference our own actions could possibly make. Plastic Free offers hope for the future through the stories of those who have taken on what looked like an insurmountable challenge and succeeded in innovative and practical ways, one step—and one piece of plastic—at a time.Par Steven Logan. 2020
In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to…
test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces.Par Amy Clampitt. 2005
This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative…
woman's life from the 1950s onward. Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success (or before it found her) at the age of 63 with the publication of The Kingfisher. Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic.Written in clear, limpid prose, Clampitt's letters illuminate the habits of imagination she would later use to such effect in her poetry. She offers, with wit and intelligence, an intimate and personal portrait of life as an independent woman recently arrived in New York City. She recounts her struggle to find a place for herself in the world of literature as well as the excitement of living in Manhattan. In other letters she describes a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment) and her work as a political activist. Clampitt also reveals her passionate interest in and fascination with the world around her. She conveys her delight in a variety of day-to-day experiences and sights, reporting on trips to Europe, the books she has read, and her walks in nature. After struggling as a novelist, Clampitt turned to poetry in her fifties and was eventually published in the New Yorker. In the last decade of her life she appeared like a meteor on the national literary scene, lionized and honored. In letters to Helen Vendler, Mary Jo Salter, and others, she discusses her poetry as well as her surprise at her newfound success and the long overdue satisfaction she obviously felt, along with gratitude, for her recognition.