Raging and Rehabing Through Wall Street: Turney Duff Tells All
The empty excesses of a Wall Street trader are laid out bare in The Buy Side, Turney Duff's account of the partying,...
Called Again: Jennifer Pharr Davis and Her Record-Setting Return to the Appalachian Trail
Take a moment to consider this accomplishment: in 2011, Jennifer Pharr Davis set the overall speed record on the...
Biographile sat down with the author of The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden age of Hijacking to learn more about how he unraveled the many mysteries embedded throughout this complex tale of romance among the runways and radicals of the 1970s.
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On June 20, 1975, Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" was released in theaters. The movie, adapted from a 1973 Peter Benchley novel about a Great White shark ripping through the sleepy town of Amity, went gangbusters.
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Edgar Allan Poe, acclaimed poet short fiction writer of the deranged and demented, lived a mysterious life and died a mysterious death. His tale is great fodder for a modern, popular biography, as those who know his tale continue to be haunted by it, just like a character in one of his deliciously deranged...
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Get more out of your summer beach reads by listening to The Moth podcasts, including recordings by the authors of these five books: Piper Kerman, Philip Caputo, Joyce Maynard, Ishmael Beah, and Damien Echols.
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The power of famous last words is all around us -- "Rosebud," "Here's Looking at You Kid." Dennis Johnson, co-founder of Melville House, has started a book series with just that idea in mind. Here we talk to Dennis about The Last Interview Series, in which the last official interviews of famous literary...
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