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Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949
By Janet Somerville. 2019
(starred review) Somerville makes an impressive book debut with a life of novelist, journalist, and intrepid war correspondent Martha Gellhorn…
(1908-1998), told through a captivating selection of her letters to friends, family, husbands, and lovers. The volume is enriched by Somerville's biographical narrative and her decision to include responses of many recipients and, in some cases, letters between individuals who were especially significant in Gellhorn's life... An engrossing collection that burnishes Gellhorn's reputation as an astute observer, insightful writer, and uniquely brave woman. --Kirkus, July 08, 2019 "A titan of American letters. It's high time for Gellhorn to emerge from the shadows of twentieth-century literature into the bright light of mainstream recognition." --The Washington Post Book World (on Martha Gelhorn) Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives and loves of the people who wrote them. When the author is a brilliant writer who lived an exciting, eventful life, the letters are especially interesting. Martha Gellhorn was a strong-willed, self-made, modern woman whose journalism, and life, were widely influential at the time and cleared a path for women who came after her. An ardent anti-fascist, she abhorred "objectivity shit" and wrote about real people doing real things with intelligence and passion. She is most famous, to her enduring exasperation, as Ernest Hemingway's third wife. Long after their divorce, her short tenure as "Mrs. Hemingway" from 1940 to 1945 invariably eclipsed her writing and, consequently, she never received her full due. Gellhorn's work and personal life attracted a disparate cadre of political and celebrity friends, among them, Sylvia Beach, Ingrid Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Norman Bethune, Robert Capa, Charlie Chaplin, Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang, Colette, Gary Cooper, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Maxwell Perkins, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Orson Welles, H.G. Wells -- the people who made history in her time and beyond. Yours, for Probably Always is a curated collection of letters between Gellhorn and the extraordinary personalities that were her correspondents in the most interesting time of her life. Through these letters and the author's contextual narrative, the book covers Gellhorn's life and work, including her time reporting for Harry Hopkins and America's Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the 1930s, her newspaper and magazine reportage during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War, and her relationships with Hemingway and General James M. Gavin late in the war, and her many lovers and affairs. Gellhorn's fiction of the time sold well: The Trouble I've Seen (1936) -- her Depression-Era stories based on the FERA activities, with an introduction by H.G. Wells; A Stricken Field (1940) -- a novel inspired by the German-Jewish refugee crisis and set in 1938 Czechoslovakia; The Heart of Another (1941) -- stories edited by Maxwell Perkins; and The Wine of Astonishment (1948) -- her novel about the liberation of Dachau, which she reported for Collier's. Gellhorn's life, reportage, fiction and correspondence reveal her passionate advocacy of social justice and her need to tell the stories of "the people who were the sufferers of history." Renewed interest in her life makes this new collection, packed with newly discovered letters and pictures, fascinating reading.Pushcart prize XLI: best of the small presses, 2017 (Pushcart Prize #41)
By Bill Henderson. 2017
Collection of seventy-one poems, stories, essays, and memoirs originally published by small presses. Includes pieces by Sally Wen Mao, Rebecca…
Makkai, Elizabeth Scanlon, T. C. Boyle, and Chris Offutt. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2017The best American travel writing: 2014 (Best American series)
By Paul Theroux, Jason Wilson. 2014
Author of Deep South (DB 83478) presents twenty-four previously published essays exploring the joys and travails of travel. Includes selections…
from Elif Batuman, Andrew McCarthy, David Sedaris, and Colson Whitehead. In "Fifty Shades of Greyhound," Harrison Scott Key recounts his second ride with the bus company. 2014Entre eternidades: y otros escritos
By Javier Marías. 2018
A collection of personal and critical texts by the Spanish novelist. Includes "La biblioteca invasora," "Mi libro favorito," and "De…
no haber nacido." Edited by Margaret Jull Costa and Alexis Grohmann. Spanish language. 2018The fetishists: the Tuareg epic (Modern Middle Eastern literatures in translation)
By William M. Hutchins, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Ibrāhīm Kūnī. 2018
Tenere has been sent by her father the sultan to seek refuge with fellow Tuareg nomads so she will not…
be used as a human sacrifice to a rival's god. However, competitions and intrigue swirl as religious traditions come into conflict. Translated from the original Arabic. Some violence. 2018Pushcart prize XLII: best of the small presses, 2018 (The Pushcart Prize #42)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart. 2018
Collection of seventy poems, stories, essays, and memoirs originally published by small presses. Includes pieces by Jamie Quatro, Saeed Jones,…
George Saunders, Rachel Cusk, Natasha Trethewey, and Francisco Cantú. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018Essential essays: culture, politics, and the art of poetry
By Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert. 2018
Twenty-six previously published essays by National Book Award-winning poet that explore political, personal, and poetical themes. In her 1980 essay…
"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," Rich explores the tensions between feminist movements and sexual identity. 2018Pushcart prize XLIII: best of the small presses, 2019 (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies Ser. #43)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart. 2019
Seventy poems, stories, essays, and memoirs originally published by small presses. In his poem "Autism Screening Questionnaire--Speech and Language Delay,"…
Oliver de la Paz explores the interactions of a parent with a child who is undergoing a diagnosis. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019Citizen: An american lyric
By Claudia Rankine. 2015
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media.…
Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenshipBaggage: Tales from a fully packed life
By Alan Cumming. 2021
"An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate—and most importantly—a happy human being. A wonderful…
book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability." — Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father's Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity. But... No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something – an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person – you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending. Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I've become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobookMennonite valley girl: A wayward coming of age
By Carla Funk. 2021
Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging toward the flames.…
Coming of age in a remote valley town—a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands—she knows her destiny is to marry, have babies, and join the church ladies' sewing circle. In her world, the body is hidden in shame, the lines between the sexes are strictly drawn, and the wrong thoughts can tip you over into sin. But increasingly, she wants to push the limits: of her family, her religion, and the little town that can't contain her desires for much longer. In poignant and hilarious stories, Funk chronicles her 1980s adolescence in all its awkward glory: from summer Bible camp to forbidden school dances, from questionable makeovers to hair-raising pranks. Through it all runs the longing to make her life into a new and different story, as she asks the questions we all must face about where we come from and who we want to be. At once an affectionate coming-of-age tale and a contemplation on meaning, morality, and destiny, Mennonite Valley Girl is about the places we all long to escape—even if they are the same places that define usOn animals
By Susan Orlean. 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." — The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." — San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular."…
— Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." — The Boston Globe Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book —gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. "How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages," writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon , she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals , she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures—the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers—something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world's most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home. Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by Orlean's stylish prose and precise research, these stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species connections that grace our collective existenceMistletoe christmas: An anthology
By Eloisa James. 2021
From four beloved writers—Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley—come four original stories that tell a hilarious tale…
of a Christmas house party that serves up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of Greystoke's Christmas Revelry is famous throughout the British Isles for its plays, dancing, magical grotto... not to mention scandals leading to the marriage licenses he hands out like confetti. But not everyone welcomes a visit from Cupid. Lady Cressida, the duke's daughter, is too busy managing the entertainments—and besides, her own father has called her dowdy. Her cousin, Lady Isabelle Wilkshire, is directing Cinderella and has no interest in marriage. Lady Caroline Whitmore is already (unhappily) married; the fact that she and her estranged husband have to pretend to be together just makes her dread the party all the more. But not as much as Miss Louisa Harcourt, whose mother bluntly tells her that this is her last chance to escape the horrors of being an old maid. A house party so large that mothers lose track of their charges leads to a delightful, seductive quartet of stories that you will savor for the Season!The letters of shirley jackson
By Shirley Jackson. 2021
A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of &“The Lottery&” and The Haunting of Hill House…
i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel. Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson&’s beloved fiction: flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad. i am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story—with as many levels as grand central station—with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson&’s college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. As well as being a bestselling author, Jackson spent much of her adult life as a mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is often the everyday: raucous holidays and trips to the dentist, overdue taxes and frayed lines of Christmas lights, new dogs and new babies. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. At the same time, many of these letters provide fresh insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson&’s writing over nearly three decades. The novel is getting sadder. It&’s always such a strange feeling—I know something&’s going to happen, and those poor people in the book don&’t; they just go blithely on their ways. Compiled and edited by her elder son, Laurence Jackson Hyman, in consultation with Jackson scholar Bernice M. Murphy, this intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson—writer and reader, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife—up to the lightThe War of 1812: writings from America's second war of independence
By Various, Donald R. Hickey. 2013
Collection of more than one hundred writings that capture the ideologies of the time and provide firsthand accounts of the…
War of 1812 from various participants, both famous and lesser known. Includes accounts of the Battle of New Orleans and the Dartmoor prison massacre in Devon, England. Some violence. 2013Collects the unabridged texts of forty-five important speeches by American public figures who spoke during times of change. Includes a…
women's rights speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Abraham Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. 2006The Sopranos sessions
By David Chase, Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller Seitz. 2019
Two prominent television critics examine the groundbreaking HBO show The Sopranos, which ran from 1999 to 2007. In addition to…
analysis and recaps of each episode, includes a discussion of the ambiguous series finale and interviews with series creator David Chase. Some strong language. 2019The man who couldn't die: the tale of an authentic human being (Russian Library)
By Marian Schwartz, Olga Slavnikova. 2019
In early 1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of WWII veteran Alexei Afanasievich Kharitonov rely on his pension. After he…
has a stroke, they go to elaborate lengths to keep him from learning about the collapse of the Soviet Union. Translated from the original 2001 Russian edition. 2019Just after midnight: a novel
By Catherine Ryan Hyde. 2018
Faith leaves her controlling husband and heads for her parents' California beach house to figure out what to do next.…
There she befriends Sarah, a fourteen-year-old girl whose mother recently died in suspicious circumstances and whose father sold her beloved horse, Midnight. Some violence and some strong language. 2018Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays (The Library of America)
By W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathan Huggins. 1986
Presents the essential writings of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), who was a historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and civil…
rights activist. Includes The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 (1896), The Souls of Black Folk (1903), and more. Edited by Nathan Huggins. 1986