An Open Book: Chapters from a Reader'...
Michael Dirda'A love story, full of a passion for literature and marked by intellectual vigor.'—Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times 'All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book,' Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, wo...
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summer...
Bill GeistBeloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in thisNew York Times bestseller. Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," t...
Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a government-employed doctor, his father an engineer....
Sunday Will Never Be the Same: A Rock...
Dawn Eden GoldsteinLove and beauty. From when she was a little girl, Dawn Eden Goldstein knew she wanted those things that in them, somehow, she would find God. But her life s search led her away from the temples of her childhood Judaism to the music cl...
The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
Catherine GraySingle in your late twenties or, hold the phone, in your thirties or beyond? Oh hi! You're in the right place.Over a third of us are now single. With the single camp growing at ten times the rate of the actual population, it is now th...
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Di...
Catherine GrayEver sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point' in just one drink? Welcome! There are millions of us.Catherine Gray was stuck in a hellish whirligig of Drink, Make horrible decisions...
Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty―then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people’s perfumes, an...
A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist ...
Vasily GrossmanWhen the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing c...
The Everlasting Stream: A True Story ...
Walt HarringtonHailed as a Best Book of 2002 by 'Newsday' and a Noteworthy Book by the 'Kansas City Star, The Everlasting Stream' is a hybrid, comprising journalism, memoir, and essay. Harrington tells several good hunting stories while giving reade...
Nearly six decades ago, Hugh Marston Hefner created Playboy magazine, which effectively ignited America's sexual revolution. The greatest living symbol of the Good Life, Hef created a world for himself that most men have yearned to i...
"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journal...
NPR’s Best Books of 2020 BookPage’s Best Books of 2020 Real Simple’s Best Books of 2020 Boston.comreaders voted one of Best Books of 2020 “Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should...
Broadcast, Bloopers & Boneheads: Behi...
Tamara HintonBroadcast, Bloopers & Boneheads: Behind the Scenes of Life in Media is a hilarious look at the regular lives of TV news people when they are not on-air. Overtime, close quarters and long hours forge bonds between news employees and th...
Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father...
Adam HochschildFrom the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation. The author lyrically ...
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by No...
Christopher IngrahamAn NPR Best Book of the Year The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made ...
Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vi...
Andrew LamA brilliant first collection of the work of frequent NPR contributor, journalist, and Pacific News Service Editor Andrew Lam. He uses his work over the last two decades to explore his life as an American and to return to his Vietnames...
Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Jo...
Garry LeechA firsthand account of Colombia's turmoil from a journalist who was held captive by rebel guerrillasIndependent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia. Unlike...
Take Good Care of the Garden and the ...
Heather LendeThe Alaskan landscape—so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable—may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss the meaning of life. Heather Lende thinks it helps make life mean more. Since her bestse...
A longtime sports columnist for the New York Times interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we lead Growing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-ale...
Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying repor...
Still Pictures: On Photography and Me...
Janet Malcolm“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” —Charles Finch, The New York Times Book Review For decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for The New Y...
How about Never--Is Never Good for Yo...
Bob Mankoff"Fascinating, forthright, and funny . . . Mankoff also writes with first-hand knowledge about the topic of laughter itself. He dares to ask the question, 'What makes something funny?', and answers it with intelligence, originality, an...
Faith and Air: The Miracle List
Scott MasonA longtime journalist grounded in facts confronts stories that ask for faith. Throughout his thirty years on the air, television reporter Scott Mason has interviewed countless people who unexpectedly offered up miracle stories. Such a...
The author of The Group, the groundbreaking bestseller and 1964 National Book Award finalist that shaped a generation of women, brings reminiscences of her girlhood to this intimate and illuminating memoir How I Grew is Mary McCarthy'...
The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: C...
Thomas McNamee"A big juicy dish bubbling with scandals and rivalries, thickened with oft-told secrets, chock full of random bits as if a boxful of mementos had been upended into the stew. Dig in, and it is likely to persuade you that this Clar...
Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Jour...
John NorrisA wildly entertaining biography of the trailblazing Washington columnist and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Before there was Maureen Dowd or Gail Collins or Molly Ivins, there was Mary McGrory. She was a tra...
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Mem...
Nuala O'Faolain'You don't want the book to end; it glows with compassion and you want more, more because you know this is a fine wine of a life, richer as it ages.'—Frank McCourt, author of Angela's AshesOne of nine children born into a penniless ...
And the Good News Is...: Lessons and ...
Dana PerinoThe runaway bestseller in hardcover is now available in paperback--with even more good news! Thoughtful, inspiring, and often surprising, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS . . . traces Dana Perino's unlikely journey through politics and television...
Guardian Angel: My Journey from Lefti...
Melanie PhillipsOnce the darling of the Left, British journalist Melanie Phillips was “mugged by reality” to become a controversial champion of national and cultural identity. Guardian Angel is that rare memoir that grabs you by the shoulders wi...
Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond...
Sam PoseyWhy do grown men play with trains? Is it a primal attachment to childhood, nostalgia for the lost age of rail travel, or the stuff of flat-out obsession? In this delightful and unprecedented book, Grand Prix legend Sam Posey tracks th...