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John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were—in Holmes's words—"Brother Souls." Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes.

Late Have I Loved You, Recollections of a Life - Foreword by Mike Aquilina - is Grammy / Dove award winning, multi-platinum selling, Best-Selling Author John Michael Talbot's first autobiography.

Человек недостойный – самая известная повесть Осаму Дадзая. Произведение во многом автобиографическое – многие критики считают, что в образе Ёдзо Оба изображен сам автор: страдающий человек, который разрушает свою жизнь, не найдя в ней места. И, словно бы подведя этим черту под собственным существованием и вложив в повесть всего себя, вскоре после выхода "Человека недостойного" Дадзай бросился в один из токийских водосборников. Это произведение известно во всем мире. Оно легло в основу фильма, манги, нескольких аниме. Повесть публикуется в новом переводе.

"Песенка в шесть пенсов и карман пшеницы" — две первые строчки известной английской песенки, а также названия не менее известных двух произведений Арчибальда Кронина, созданных в лучших традициях "романов воспитания" Диккенса, Бальзака и Флобера. Рассказ о судьбе юноши из Шотландии, мечтательного, амбициозного и наивного отразил многие автобиографические факты из жизни автора.

Чувства к чешской журналистке Милене Есенской стали самым ярким переживанием в жизни "пражского гения". Их роман продлился недолго, но переписка продолжалась несколько лет. Именно Милене писатель передал свои дневники и ставшее позднее известным "Письмо отцу", а их непростые, эмоциональные отношения нашли отражение в главном произведении Кафки – романе "Замок". Эти письма без ответа отчасти напоминают дружескую переписку, наполненную тревожными мыслями, страхами, болезненными переживаниями и глубоким взаимопониманием. В них — другой Кафка, — романтик, нуждающийся в поддержке.

While in her teens Kerry Dashnaw meets a group of conservative Catholic nuns. Enamored by their long habits and mysterious lifestyle she joins the order after graduation from high school. Determined to get close to God she finds that life behind the convent walls is not what she had hoped or expected. Confronted with manipulation, abuse and finally disillusionment, the author relates how she navigated her life into her twenties and early thirties. Through the help of a psychotherapist, she regains a sense of purpose and creates a new life for herself.

Ronald Blythe (1922-2023), author of the inimitable Akenfield, was a prolific and poetic chronicler of rural and spiritual life, nature and literature. He spent a joyful century close to his Suffolk roots, time travelling in his imagination and publishing forty books and thousands of essays. His wide creative network included John and Christine Nash, Cedric Morris, Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster, Patricia Highsmith and Richard Mabey.

Hay escritores con manías dignas de un loquero y vidas tan asombrosas que hacen palidecer a las de sus propios personajes. Novelistas incapaces de escribir una página sin tener una copa en la mano o tan prolíficos que acabaron asfixiados en su propio ego. Un Hemingway yéndose al otro mundo en circunstancias exactas a la que eligió su padre, dos de sus hermanas y una nieta. Un Scott Fitzgerald que entraba a los casinos a cuatro patas o una Virginia Woolf que no soportaba leer sus textos.

Душераздирающе трагическая, невероятно смешная и беззаветно честная автобиография одного из самых знаковых писателей Израиля. Мальчик рос в раздираемом войной Иерусалиме 40-50х годов в тесной квартире, битком набитой книгами на двенадцати языках и родственниками, на стольких же языках говорящими. В подростковые годы внезапная и трагическая смерть матери навсегда изменила его жизнь. Оставив позади душный мир своей семьи и их сообщество мечтателей, ученых и неудавшихся бизнесменов, юноша уезжает в кибуц, чтобы начать жизнь с нуля.

In this unusual biography Krystal gives us not only the peripatetic and turbulent life of a cultural icon but also the intellectual sweep of a period in history that created our modern America. Some Unfinished Chaos delivers a nuanced portrait of a man whose various sides embodied the trends, passions, and pursuits of the imperfect society that both glorified and dismissed him.

During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes—over two million words—that revealed our world as never before. It was, to use a current expression, the biggest Wikileak of the Renaissance. In an enthralling narrative, Andrea di Robilant brings to vivid life the man who used all his political skill, along with the help of conniving diplomats and spies, to ferret out a remarkable collection of journals, private letters and classified government reports.

Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married, and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks after Molly’s death, Blake discovered shocking secrets she had held back from the world, fundamentally altering his view of their relationship and who she was.

Herzzerreißend, mutmachend, witzig und zärtlich: ein autobiografischer Kurztext von Bestsellerautorin Sophie Kinsella Als Eve eines Morgens im Krankenhaus aufwacht, hat sie keinerlei Erinnerung, wie sie dort hingekommen ist. Ihr Mann Nick, der stets an ihrer Seite wacht, erklärt ihr, dass ihr ein bösartiger Hirntumor entfernt wurde. Von nun an muss Eve, eine gefeierte Bestsellerautorin, alles neu lernen – das Laufen, das Sprechen, das Schreiben. Und sie muss sich mit der Diagnose auseinandersetzen, womöglich nie wieder gesund zu werden.

Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then set down his impressions in The Sign of the Cross, a beautifully written book filled with personal detail set within its historical context.

Una biografia minima ma ricchissima del Sommo Poeta: Montanelli riesce, con l'arguzia del gran divulgatore e attenzione ai dettagli, a raccontarci la vita di un intellettuale libero quale fu Dante Alighieri. Da toscano a toscano, un tributo alla figura di poeta e uomo politico dell'autore della "Divina Commedia".

A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the "poet laureate of his race" hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a "caged bird" that sings.

In elegant prose, Hilary A. Hallett traces Elinor Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, the author was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic.

Joining us at Audible Studios is author Kit de Waal. Growing up in poverty in Birmingham, de Waal was exposed to many challenges as a child. Being British, Irish and Caribbean, she experienced many aspects of racism, and her chaotic home life was both a comfort and a difficulty. We'll be talking with Kit de Waal about her newest book, a memoir titled Without Warning and Only Sometimes, and asking why she turned the lens on herself, how her love of reading began, and how it felt to have Armageddon hanging over her as a child.

In five short essays, the award-winning writer dissects the nervous condition of being not only Black, and not only a woman, but also quote-unquote "postcolonial". Weaving together the experiences, events, intersections and negotiations of her multifaceted identity, Dangarembga offers a powerful vision of Black liberation.

From the Corner of Bad and Ass is a collection of Carrie Schiffler’s memories about growing up in welfare housing to absentee and alcoholic parents. Throughout these heart-wrenching and often-hilarious stories, we cheer her on as she fights to survive domestic violence, sexual abuse, and cycles of poverty and addiction ... all before her 18th birthday. Prepare to laugh at her attempts to earn the attention she craves and prepare to cry over the inappropriate attention she receives.