On the opening page of her short firecracker of a memoir, I Await the Devil's Cming, Mary MacLane declares herself 'odd,' 'distinctly original,' and 'a genius' -- and it’s hard to argue with any of those claims. Biographile Recommends this re-released edition of MacLane's memoir, with an intro by Jessa...
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In The Astronaut Wives Club, Lily Koppel describes the club that formed among the seven wives of the Mercury Seven. Their husbands’ heads may have been in the clouds, but these wives kept their feet on the ground. For some books about men, and women, who launched themselves into the sky, read on.
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The World's Strongest Librarian is about the life of Josh Hanagarne, a Salt Lake City librarian diagnosed with Tourette's as a young, bookish schoolboy. He reflects on the obstacles his syndrome presents, and how weight-lifting has helped him gain control of his tics and his confidence.
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To celebrate Father's Day, we've rounded up six great explorations of father-son and father-daughter relationships, as depicted by some of our favorite authors. Funny, daring, moving, and sincere, tackling large issues of race, sexuality, and inheritance alongside the comedy of day-to-day life, these...
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In their biography Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen illustrate how hard it would be to overstate the popularity of Capp’s “Li’l Abner” comic strip, which spawned a Hollywood movie and a Broadway musical. In a 1947 New Yorker profile of Capp that ran in two...
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