The Most Dangerous Book – The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses
For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language […]
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Tenderness
D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the […]
Never a Lovely So Real – The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of […]
Frantumaglia
A Writer’s Journey From the author of My Brilliant Friend This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s […]
Hemingway in Love
In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary’s […]
Why This World – A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now […]
American Smoke – Journeys to the End of the Light
Completing the trilogy begun with Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and continued with Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair breaks […]
Salinger
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people—and published in […]
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story – A Life of David Foster Wallace
The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace […]
Anne Sexton – A Biography
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held […]
Lives Like Loaded Guns – Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds
In 1882, Emily Dickinson’s brother, Austin, began an adulterous love affair with the accomplished and ravishing Mabel […]
The Talented Miss Highsmith – The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling […]
Something Urgent I Have to Say to You
Herbert Leibowitz’s “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You” provides a new perspective on the life […]
Cheever
From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the […]