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Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his...
Apollo's Angels
A History of Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking...
by Diane Keaton
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself—no matter what anyone else thinks.**
Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring...
by Susan Orlean, John Updike, James Thurber
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Only The New Yorker could fetch such an unbelievable roster of talent on the subject of man’s best friend.
This copious collection, beautifully illustrated, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. The roster of contributors...
by The New Yorker Magazine, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval—as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with pieces by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and George Orwell, alongside original reflections on the 1940s...
by Art Buchwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
“[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just about the quick laugh. His humor is a road map to essential truths and insights that might otherwise...
Sick in the Head
Conversations About Life and Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB • Includes new interviews!
From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from...
Secret Ingredients
The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including...
Dogfight
The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign.
Dogfight is a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (“Callista Gingrich, Aware...
Whiter Shades of Pale
The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
HOW WHITE YOU ARE!
If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday New York Times–reading, self-satisfied latte lovers—you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races, then hang on to your eco-friendly tote bags. Veteran white...
The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs,...
by The New Yorker Magazine, Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions.
This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives....
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Drooling fanatic, n. 1. One who drools in the presence of beloved rock stars. 2. Any of a genus of rock-and-roll wannabes/geeks who walk around with songs constantly ringing in their ears, own more than 3,000 albums, and fall in love with at least one record per week.
With a life that’s spanned...
Paris in Love
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Wilde in Love, a joyful chronicle of a year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Paris.
“What a beautiful and delightful tasting menu of a book: the kids, the plump little dog, the Italian husband. Reading this memoir was like...