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Inthe tradition of Jeanette Walls' TheGlass Castle and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, novelist Minrose Gwin offers a beautifullycrafted memoir of rediscovering her mother, the …

Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical The Genius explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, …

One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars. Fearful of what the studio might do to her story';I …

Fernando Pessoa is one of the 20th century's greatest poets. Until some years ago known in the English-speaking world only among a minority of connaisseurs, his work is finally …

Jornada exaltante. Stravinski tocó alguna cosa del David futuro. No es posible describir lo bello que era. (…) Escaladas a las cimas de las montañas. Se encuentran las últimas …

A poetic tarantella of the heart. Walk, tremble and fall in the Matriamia, cry for connection from alleyways up to open windows. Expose your heart. Know what it is to feel like an …

For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure …

In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a …

In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution – and the potential twenty first century death of – the diary, mourning what it means to lose …