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With The Wright Brothers, historian David McCullough has transformed one of the most important chapters of world history into a perfect and succinct volume that effortlessly captures the era’s commitment to their dreams. Borrowing...
Luke Mann was 13-years-old when his brother Josh overdosed on heroin. He opens Lord Fear, a memoir of his brother’s life, at Josh’s funeral because, “I once read a Philip Roth novel that begins...
Win a signed copy of Willie Nelson’s autobiography in June’s book giveaway. I grew up with Willie Nelson. My dad moved our family from Poughkeepsie, New York to Austin, Texas in the mid-1970s, when...
When her father died suddenly, the world stopped making sense to Helen Macdonald. “A kind of madness drifted in,” she recalls. “Time didn’t run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could...
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes captures the measure of the man. From the first letter to the last, a portrait of a complete artist emerges. Hughes was a renowned poet, playwright, and novelist who...
★★☆☆☆ Personal memoir and statistical enumeration intertwine in David Shields’ genre-defying reflection upon death. Shields’ (I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, 2015, etc.) unique memoir is a meditation upon life’s brevity and its...
