Harper Perennial, April 1998. Oversize Softcover. "A revelation. No one will ever view Andrew Wyeth's apparently tranquil works the same way again after reading this vivid and astonishing portrait of the turbulent, driven man who paints them. Richard Meryman has written a wonderful book." -- Geoffrey C. Ward At its... More about Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life

Knopf, March 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Warner Lutz isn't sure how he got where he is, but he's not happy to be there. Midthirties, married, two kids, dead-end career in fund-raising, cramped apartment, old Honda, slightly frayed clothes. In boomtown Charlotte, North Carolina, everyone else seems to have more --... More about Six Figures

W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1995. Cloth. These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome, brought to life using the colorful testimony of contemporary authors. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. More about Chronicle of the Roman Emperors : The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. No one knows more about everything--especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling--than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's great... More about Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

Knopf, October 2010. First Edition. Cloth. From the author of the best-selling Musicophilia (hailed as luminous, original, and indispensable by The American Scholar), an exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the... More about The Mind's Eye

Viking Adult, November 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished... More about Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

NYRB Classics, September 2001. Paper Back. In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter... More about Renoir, My Father (New York Review Books Classics

New York Review of Books, September 2008. Trade Paperback. The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one... More about The Liberal Imagination

NYRB Classics, November 2016. Paper Back. Robert Bresson's Notes on the Cinematographer are working memos which the great French director made for his own use. In all of them, Bresson reflects with a craftsman's insight on techniques and their philosophical and aesthetic implications. Not surprisingly, these acute reflections will not... More about Notes on the Cinematograph

NYRB Classics, October 2007. Paper Back. While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete... More about A Time to Keep Silence (New York Review Books Classics

New York Review of Books, June 2006. Paper Back. Get lost in northern Greece with one of the greatest travel writers of the 20th century as he travels to monasteries, among shepherds, and throughout the hills, mountains, and rugged coastline of this enchanted land. Roumeli is not to be found... More about Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece

Vintage, December 1998. Paper Back. In this genre-bending novel--among the first to have launched sci-fi into the arena of literature--one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. There's Lone, the... More about More Than Human