To celebrate the charming and biting The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger, we've decided to take a look at some of the most explosive, dramatic, and divisive literary break-ups of all time. (READ MORE)
This week we're celebrating Jack Kerouac's birthday, born March 12, 1922, by recommending some of our favorite biographies and memoirs about the man, the myth, the writing legend. (READ MORE)
In The Scarlet Sisters, Myra MacPherson talks about the sexy sophistication of two boundary-pushing ladies in the Gilded Age: Victoria Claflin Woodhull and Tennessee “Tennie” Claflin.(READ MORE)
In Rosie Perez's memoir Handbook for an Unpredictable Life, she recounts her childhood bouncing between a Catholic group home and her schizophrenic mother’s Brooklyn apartment.(READ MORE)
Laurence Rees's newest book Hitler's Charisma discusses Hitler's personal magnetism as the driving force behind his success as Führer. Rees's writing and command of the subject inspired us to recommend other works by the great British historian. (READ MORE)
We're celebrating this Valentine's Day by going to the crossroads of Letters and Love: Paris, France. Join us as we trace the "six degrees of Simone de Beavoir," a writer who oversaw (and partook in) the incestuous, tangled love affairs of France's best and brightest. (READ MORE)
In Kelly Corrigan's Glitter and Glue, readers are taken on a post-college journey to South Asia and Australia, then surprisingly settle down with an Australian family as Corrigan takes on the unlikely role of nanny for two motherless children. (READ MORE)
Cummings’s first offering, published in 1922, was not a playful bit of verse but a novel called The Enormous Room, in which he uses his own WWI detainment (in a large room, of course) to inform the novel's premise.(READ MORE)
What if Garfield were real? And what if his life was finally chronicled for the world to read: from his adoption and hardscrabble upbringing to his frequent pizza binges? Imagine no more, because we're doing it for you. (READ MORE)
Leah Vincent grew up Orthodox only to grow out of it after her family unceremoniously disowned her for being too rebellious. Vincent explains to us her need to write this book , other books on Orthodoxy that enlightened her own understanding, and what it's like to end a "redemptive" memoir when the true...(READ MORE)
