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In the six lectures of Margaret Atwood: A Modern Myth-Maker, Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black will take you on a thorough exploration of Atwood’s most celebrated novel to examine the many ways this book has transcended its dystopian roots to become something more than a tale of, “What if?” Over the course of these lectures, you’ll examine the social, political, cultural, and spiritual impact of the novel—and of Atwood herself—as you dive deep into the text to unravel its themes and inspirations.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain.

Desde sus humildes comienzos hasta convertirse en un reconocido cantante, actor, productor, político y activista, Mayer comparte sus experiencias, desafíos y triunfos con una gran honestidad. Explora los momentos de duda y superación, las lecciones aprendidas y las decisiones valientes que lo llevaron a reinventarse una y otra vez.

Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.

Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this work, Sue Prideaux reveals that while Gauguin was a complicated man, his scandalous reputation is largely undeserved.

With humility and candor, artist activist Mary Fisher inspires us when, in her eighth decade, she creatively takes on disease, poverty, hunger, injustice, racism and the role of women. Uneasy Silence tells her story of speaking truth to power while living with AIDS, journeying through cancer and surviving a near-death experience. Her steady concern for The Other enables her to find the strength to stand up, speak up and make a difference, inspiring us to do the same.

From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev's birth. Here we meet Shalev's amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family's biggest enemy in their new land: dirt.

Life and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s twelve masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In “The Lives of Others,” he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don’t, and sometimes can’t, know?

Experience the enchanting world of motherhood through the captivating pages of "Blessed Madness: Stories and Lessons of Motherhood." This heartfelt book takes you on a remarkable journey as the author, a professional journalist, embraces the adventure of becoming a first-time mother in Cuba, her home country. With love and optimism as guiding forces, the author shares her narrative, intertwined with journalistic chronicles and expert advice based on medical criteria. From the moment she decides to embark on the path of motherhood to the joys and challenges she encounters along the way, this...

Under åren 1965 till 1975 kom författarna Maj Sjöwall och Per Wahlöö ut med tio böcker om kriminalkommissarie Martin Beck. Sviten fick titeln Roman om ett brott och skulle bli banbrytande. Så här kunde deckare skrivas! Så här kunde Sverige skildras!

Vi hade precis bestämt oss för att flytta från Johannesburg till Kapstaden, bli kvar i Sydafrika och släppa taget om Sverige. Men i den eviga solens land blev vår yngste son alltmer blek och torr om läpparna. En otäck känsla växte inom mig att något allvarligt hade drabbat honom. Tio dagar senare satt hela familjen förtvivlad på Karolinska sjukhusets barncanceravdelning i Stockholm. Vi hade evakuerats till Sverige av SOS International.

I40–constant readerskriver Linda Skugge kort, vasst och ärligt om sig själv, omvärlden och livet som skrivande och läsande människa.

Efter över fyrtio år med skrivandet som huvudsysselsätttning publicerar Jan Guillou nu sina yrkesmemoarer. Han berättar öppet och underhållande om de första årens författardrömmar då idolerna hette Claude Simon och J M G Le Clézio – båda sedermera Nobelprisbelönade – och hur hans vägar sedan gick från den experimentella litteraturen till en effektiv och verklighetsnära prosa. Men åren kring tjugo var samtidigt den tid då den unge juridikstudenten upptäckte att journalistik var effektivare än juridik.

This unique literary debut from leading Irish art critic Cristín Leach weaves words and art with an unravelling of self that comes when a marriage breaks. In a multi-layered and incisive narrative, Leach writes about the gaps between reality and perception, about writing and anxiety, body and brain, breaking and making, succeeding and failing, conventionality and independence. The non-linear structure of Negative Space, with repeats, retakes, and details deliberately left unsaid, mimics the gaps in memory and understanding that are part of the human condition, especially during times of ...

Este libro es un recorrido poético y lúcido por las zonas más intensas de la vida y obra de Arthur Rimbaud. Cada capítulo lo sigue desde la infancia hasta su silencio final, pasando por sus cartas, su amor explosivo con Verlaine, su descenso al infierno, sus visiones en Iluminaciones y su partida definitiva. Incluye fragmentos originales de sus poemas más importantes: El Barco Ebrio, Aurora, Después del Diluvio, Una temporada en el infierno y otros textos esenciales de Rimbaud.

A defiant anthem for the soul, Walk Like a Girl is an invitation to rewrite your story. To shatter the mold into which society has tried to cast you. When we learn to embrace the power of vulnerability, the beauty of imperfection, and the infinite possibilities within each of us, we begin to see the extraordinary power within ourselves, waiting to be unleashed.

This biography is the very first in-depth telling of the life of New Mexico’s celebrated cowboy poet, S. Omar Barker. He was an amazing man who became not only widely known but greatly admired and loved. He managed to achieve that status even though he seldom left his beloved retreat in the mountains of northern New Mexico. His secret was that he made his living through his mailbox. Writing in virtual isolation, Omar sold his poetry, articles and novels to many different publishers. That was from 1926 until his death in 1985. This biography contains 50 complete poems of his, but it is ...

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youthful ideals and a realist's recognition of the dictatorial world around him. Horace is famed for his fine phrases, lyric sex, and guidance on how to live, but he was a poet maddened by war, and many of his most self-revealing poems have rarely been seen. He could be sublime and obscene, amusing and abusive, a model of moderation and anything but.

Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.

Es ist Sommer. Alex Schulman kommt ins Landhaus seiner Mutter, um sie davon abzuhalten, sich zu Tode zu trinken. Und sie zu überzeugen, sich in eine Entzugsklinik einzuweisen. Genug ist genug. Er will seine Mutter zurück. Die glückliche Mutter, die er aus seiner Kindheit kennt. Was genau ist passiert, wie ist aus der schillernden, liebevollen Mutter dieses geisterhafte Wrack geworden?