Grand Central Publishing, January 2022. Hardcover. A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School. Early on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As..... More
Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing..... More
Convergent Books, January 2022. Hardcover. The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons--one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration. "A..... More
Henry Holt and Co., January 2022. Hardcover. The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Written when..... More
Harper, November 2021. Hardcover. The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. The elegance of Patchett's prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2022. Hardcover. For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania's Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests. Communism..... More
Knopf, January 2021. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become..... More
Milkweed Editions, October 2021. Hardcover. A TIME Magazine Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021 A Los Angeles Times Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021 A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For poet Victoria Chang..... More
Haymarket Books, January 2022. Paper Back. The Sentences That Create Us draws from the unique insights of over fifty justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer inspiration and resources for creating a literary life in prison. Centering in the philosophy that writers in prison can be as vibrant and capable..... More
Harper, November 2021. Hardcover. The extraordinary life and legacy of legendary journalist Cokie Roberts--a trailblazer for women--remembered by her friends and family. Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls. A fixture on national television and radio for more..... More
Picador, January 2022. Paper Back. A vivid and elegant memoir of a family's season abroad by the author of the Outline trilogy. When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that..... More
Knopf, September 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2022. Hardcover. "A firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastating criminal punishment system. Laura Coates bleeds for justice on the page." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist When Laura Coates joined..... More
Holt McDougal, January 1999. Paper Back. A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller from the award-winning author and celebrated feminist, "Wounds of Passion is bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence."--Gloria Steinem "I love this book. Each offering from bell hooks is a major event..... More
Henry Holt and Co., October 2021. Hardcover. A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known..... More
Melville House, July 2020. Paper Back. "Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it." -- TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only..... More
Crown, October 2021. Hardcover. A riveting blend of family history and original reportage that explores--and reimagines--Asian American identity in a Black and white world ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Mother Jones - "A smart, vulnerable, and incisive exploration of what it means for this brilliant..... More
Vintage, May 2012. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with..... More
Everyman's Library, October 2006. Cloth. From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where..... More
Vintage, January 2018. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "One of contemporary literature's most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country's culture and history feel particularly resonant today." --Harper's Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author..... More
Knopf, March 2017. Hardcover. From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews..... More
Vintage, April 1993. Paper Back. "We tell ourselves stories in order to live" was the opening line of Joan Didion's celebrated The White Album. In After Henry, her new collection of pieces, most of them reported and written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, she..... More
Vintage, February 2007. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will..... More
Vintage, April 1994. Paper Back. Terror is the given of the place. The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion brings the country to life (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror--its mechanisms, rationales, and..... More
Random House Inc, August 2002. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In these coolly observant essays, the iconic bestselling writer looks at the American political process and at that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life. Through the deconstruction of the sound bites..... More
