In this captivating memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winner Page writes about growing up gifted and unknowingly suffering from Asperger's syndrome, expanding on a tremendously popular essay he wrote for "The New Yorker."
A comprehensive, insightful, sympathetic biography of a long-underrated New York writer whose life encompassed the depths of failure and discouragement, but also the heights of wit and high spirits. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Dawn Powell's correspondents included Malcolm Lowry, John Dos Passos, and Edmund Wilson, and her letters are as brilliant, witty, and just plain fun to read as her novels. ( In one early letter, she writes, "There is this about letter writing. One can gas on ad infinitum about the eternal ego without receiving any personal violence in return or ...
Dawn Powell's incomparable diaries provide a tough-minded, witty, courageous account of her days in New York City, when she was trying to succeed as a writer, cope with her difficult son, and remain a vital part of the city's literary milieu.
The dramatic struggle of the tank crews against German advance is told through the photographs in the book, some of which have never been published before.
In a classic memoir of the sixties and seventies, Tim Page tells the story of how he came to Vietnam, overcame devastating injuries, lived among the gonzo, the strange and the brilliant in Northern California, and where he went from there. Two 8-page photo inserts.
This new popular collection of Robert Ingersoll's thought, distilled from the 12-volume set of his works, his copious letters, and newspaper interviews, promises to bring his views back to the forefront of independent American thought.
Morton Gould (1913-1996) was a dominant force in American music throughout most of the 20th century. This phenomenally talented composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist worked in vaudeville and on radio, from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway, all the while churning out jingles, symphonies, and everything in between. His popularity, however, may have ...
Set in a small Ohio town like the one in which Dawn Powell grew up, this is the story of a friendship between the wife of a shoemaker and the music teacher at the local high school, both of whom feel that they were cheated by life. One of Powell's early novels, COME BACK TO SORRENTO was originally published in 1932 as THE TENTH MOON.
A comprehensive, insightful, sympathetic biography of a long-underrated New York writer whose life encompassed the depths of failure and discouragement, but also the heights of wit and high spirits. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
When Glenn Gould died in 1982 at the age of 50, he left behind a legacy of 26 years not only as a remarkable pianist, but as an outstanding music critic. His writing, which appeared primarily in music journals and on record sleeves, was often as provocative as his performances. This book contains essays on composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven ...
IN ADDITION TO THE novels and the diaries that have won her posthumous acclaim, Dawn Powell wrote hundreds of short stories over the course of half a century. "Sunday, Monday and Always," initially published in 1952, was the author's own personal selection of her best work in the form. This new, expanded edition of "Sunday, Monday, and Always" ...
Over 200 black and white pictures explore the life of Glenn Gould (1932-1982), a classical pianist known for his dynamic virtuosity and passionate intensity. Extensive captions from his letters and an introduction by a critic provide context.
Since the end of the war over 25 years ago, Vietnam has haunted America. Today, many people remember the war as a series of terrible pictures - taken by courageous civilian and military photographers. But there are other images of the war that we have rarely seen. These are the pictures taken by the other side, the Vietnamese, the enemy. Pictures ...
Few contemporary photographers can have been so widely celebrated as Tim Page. Everything he has done since throwing himself into the Indo-China and Vietnam of the 1960s - "the deep end of the pool of life" - has exhibited a brilliantly idiosyncratic character all of its own. His experience of the war, mythologized a quarter of a century later in ...
In 65 perceptive pieces, including some of the work that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997, Page offers what he calls "a collection of illumined moments," now gathered in a single volume for the wider audience who will treasure their insights.
Legendary photographer Tim Page recounts his journey back to Vietnam, the setting of his early fame and the near fatal wounds he suffered in covering the war there. 103 color photographs.
This long overdue compilation includes nine stories, as well as the novels DANCE NIGHT, which takes place in Powell's native Ohio, and TURN, MAGIC WHEEL, about life in Manhattan in the 30s--her two favorites among her 15 novels. Powell has been compared to a slew of writers including Dorothy Parker, Muriel Spark, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, ...
First Published In 1929, The Bride's House is the story of a woman who loves two men but who ill find happiness with neither. The novel is set shortly before the turn of the century in rural Ohio. Even as a young girl Sophie True love was carrying on a struggle within herself between "the good" and "the bad", between the conventions of her time ...
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