Looking Back at Life, Career, and The Journals of Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray would be seventy-two-years-old today. To honor him, we're looking back at his life, career, and The Journals of Spalding Gray.(READ MORE)
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Letters to the Girls Who Live Upstairs: Dear Girls Above Me by Charles McDowell
Charles McDowell writes open letters to the unfathomably ditzy girls who live above him. What began as a Twitter feed is now a compilation that will hit bookshelves early June.(READ MORE)
From Angelia Jolie’s Medical Choice to Pretty is What Changes by Jessica Queller
Today, The New York Times published an opinion piece written by Angelina Jolie in which the actor, director, and mother of six candidly discusses her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. Jessica Queller, television writer and author of Pretty is What Changes, faced a similar reality.(READ MORE)
Blurring the Gender Divide: She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan
In She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Jennifer -- formerly James -- Finney Boylan candidly tells the courageous story of her self-actualization, detailing her transition from manhood into womanhood.(READ MORE)
La Ville de L’amour: Paris in Love, a Memoir by Eloisa James
Paris in Love chronicles a year in the life of New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James and the time she spent abroad in la ville de l'amour.(READ MORE)
Celebrate National Library Week with Avi Steinberg’s Running the Books
This week is National Library Week, and to celebrate, we're looking back at Avi Steinberg's Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian.(READ MORE)
The Lives That Shaped Her: Shocked by Patricia Volk
In Shocked, author Patricia Volk weaves together the lessons she learned from the two formative voices that most influenced her growing up from an adolescent girl into a woman: her traditionalist mother and the avant-garde, equally opinionated designer Elsa Schiaparelli. (READ MORE)
It’s All Happening At The Zoo: The Intersection of Animal and Human Diagnoses
What can animals teach us about the human body and mind? Cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers set out to learn just that by researching how the similarities between animals and humans could help treat and diagnose patients of all kinds in their book Zoobiquity: What...(READ MORE)
The Greatest Show on Earth: Duncan Wall’s The Ordinary Acrobat
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, let us peak behind these tented walls and learn the story of a young man whose life is nothing short of extraordinary. Here is the story of Duncan Wall, a man who, if only for a time, ran away with the idea of the circus. (READ MORE)
The Family Behind the Legacy: G.J. Meyer’s The Borgias
From the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone, comes a history of one of the most notorious dynasties the world has known. Read on for an excerpt from G.J. Meyer's The Borgias: The Hidden History.(READ MORE)
