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At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne’s legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding school, ending his institutional education for good.

In this close-up look at the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was seventeen and he was forty-seven and married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1990s memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth when she wrote about their passion back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love.

As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Suddenly, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion. In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan’s rarefied world, transformed not only by her blazing intellect but by her generous friendship and mentorship.

Marina Abramovic, serbische Konzeptkünstlerin der Superlative: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Carmen de Icaza fue una de las escritoras más leídas de los años cuarenta. Su novela Cristina Guzmán, profesora de idiomas se tradujo a todos los idiomas europeos y hasta Dolores Ibárruri, la Pasionaria, la leyó y disfrutó mientras vivía en la URSS. Pero Carmen no fue solo una novelista de renombre. De alta sociedad, a la muerte de su padre empezó a trabajar como periodista para sacar adelante a sus hermanos pequeños.

Raccontare Vivian Maier significa raccontare una vita invisibile, cancellata. La vita di una bambinaia. Ma quella bambinaia era una fotografa di genio destinata a diventare una leggenda. Raccontare Vivian Maier vuol dire immaginare un'americana di origini francesi che ispeziona infaticabile le vie, gli angoli delle città in cui vive, rubandone fotogrammi con una Rolleiflex da cui non si separa mai. Significa cercare di ricostruire i frammenti di una biografia in cui lei, Vivian, sfugge, sfuma sempre in un fuori fuoco, una dissolvenza impossibile da afferrare, in cui si perde anche il suo nome.

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life—a task demanding a writer just as peerlessly skillful as she was widely known to be. Still Pictures, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.

In the novel Little Women, Mr. March goes off to war. But in real life, it was Jo March (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. This is Alcott’s memoir but she chose to use the pseudonym “Tribulation Periwinkle” to tell her story. Despite the subject matter, her account is full of amusing anecdotes as she makes her way alone from Concord, Massachusetts to DC, trying to finagle a free ticket and convinced she will drown during the journey.

Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped. This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Kerouac’s adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.

Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.

1984' ve 'Hayvan Çiftliği' gibi eserleriyle edebiyat dünyasını kasıp kavuran George Orwell, her ne kadar kurgusal dünyalar yaratmış olsa da, kendi hayatı da başlı başına bir roman kadar çarpıcı olduğu bir gerçek. Bu biyografi, bu eşsiz yazarın yaşamının labirentlerine bir davetiye sunuyor.

Pela primeira vez, uma parte antes esquecida da história de Frida Kahlo—sua vivência na Europa ao lado de artistas como Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso e André Breton—é trazida à luz em um relato íntimo e cheio de detalhes requintados.

Dive into the profound world of John Milton, a pivotal figure in the annals of English literature, in "Where More is Meant Than Meets the Ear: The Life and Poetry of John Milton" by John Cousins. This comprehensive biography not only explores Milton's celebrated works such as "Paradise Lost," "Paradise Regained," and "Samson Agonistes" but also delves into the less-trodden paths of his interest in the occult, magic, and his substantial political engagements. John Milton, a poet, polemicist, and civil servant, is a name that resonates in the realm of English literature. Often hailed as one ...

Shlomo Graber hat drei Konzentrationslager überlebt und sich trotzdem gegen den Hass auf die Täter und für Vergebung entschieden. Die ergreifende, unglaubliche Geschichte einer Kindheit und Jugend in unmenschlicher Zeit. Bis heute vermittelt Graber kommenden Generationen im Dialog Werte wie Toleranz, Respekt und Nächstenliebe.

Имя и творчество великого художника-баталиста Василия Васильевича Верещагина без преувеличения известны всем. Его знаменитые картины «Апофеоз войны», «Смертельно раненый», «У крепостной стены» впервые показали широкой публике не триумф победителей, а боль, ужас и величайшую трагедию войны. И если про историю создания этих и других живописных шедевров мастера мы знаем очень многое, то про личную жизнь художника известно гораздо меньше. В аудиокниге «Воспоминания сына художника» мы сможем познакомиться и с этой, закрытой от многих стороной жизни Василия Верещагина.

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Leo Tolstoi, Jules Verne Rudyard Kipling, Stefan Zweig, Kurt Tucholsky, Agatha Christie, Joseph Roth, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Astrid Lindgren, Philip Roth.

These Foolish Things captivatingly charts Dylan's life: from his peripatetic childhood and late adolescence in 1970s London - a city then alive with possibility - to his award-winning tenure at what would become one of the most dynamic magazines of its era, GQ.

" La reine, naturellement, c’était elle, et le chevalier, c’était moi. " Les vacances à La Treille se poursuivent, mais ne se ressemblent plus : Lili doit travailler aux champs avec son père, et Marcel rencontre Isabelle, la fille du poète Loïs de Montmajour. Le jeune Marcel trahit - provisoirement - l'amitié de Lili pour l'illusion de l'amour… Puis ce sera l’arrivée en classe de sixième, au « lycée », le début de l’internat et la rencontre avec Lagneau, le cancre par excellence.