Arts & Literature

the Ultimate Insider Rock Memoir About Life And Love With The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Crosby, Stills And Nash, And More. the New York T...

Canada's beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going to do now? That was the question on everyone's lips when the...

Michael Lesy. Text Previously Published As Part Of Visible Light / Michael Lesy. New York : Times Books, 1985.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts &am...

Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honn...

Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life'...

In The Vein Of Nic Sheff's Tweak And Tori Spelling's Stori Telling, Unsweetined Reveals The Former Full House Star's Harrowing Journey From Her Role As Amer...

Everything you love about American popular culture is Quincy Jones. As an artist and impresario Quincy Jones has been the creative catalyst for over 50 ye...

Tennessee Williams wrote letters to his family, friends, and theatrical contacts as he wrote his plays; with an eye for precise detail;, self-deprecating h...

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-tol...

"You've got only one life to live, so make it a hell of a ride." (Judy) "What good is sitting alone in your room?" (Liza) Judy and Liza were the greatest, m...

When his career in music seemingly fell apart, Shocka - then one-third of the grime collective Marvell - found himself in hospital for his deteriorating men...

How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habi...

An instant New York Times bestseller!The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword a...

The Paper Garden is unlike anything else you have ever read. At once a biography of an extraordinary 18th century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life...

in April 1992 A Young Man From A Well-to-do Family Hitchhiked To Alaska And Walked Alone Into The Wilderness North Of Mt. Mckinley. His Name Was Christophe...

It never gets better, but it does get easier. That's the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who's fighting like hell, just hangi...

A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben ...

After Film Critic Gene Siskel Asked Her, What Do You Know For Sure? Oprah Winfrey Began Writing The What I Know For Sure Column In O, The Oprah Magazine. Sa...

The New York Times Bestseller *One of Rolling Stone's 10 Best Music Books of 2015*An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Pett...

Nina Simone With Stephen Cleary. Discography: Pages 177-178.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureComposers & Musicians

The Casbah Coffee Club, which opened in Liverpool on August 29, 1959, was the brainchild of Mona Best, the mother of Pete Best. It is well known that Pete B...

As Justine Picardie shows in this elegant book, the figure who introduced simplicity into women’s wardrobes was far from simple ... the Chanel uncovered ...

Virtually Unknown For The Better Part Of The Twentieth Century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) Is One Of The Most Interesting Rediscoveries Of Recent Africa...

George "Pee Wee" Erwin devoted a lifetime to American music. During his long and distinguished career as a professional trumpet player he was in constant de...

Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve ...

Originally released as a slim paperback 10 years ago (now out of print and fetching collector's prices), this in-depth illustrated monograph on the late, gr...

Authorized by the Graceland® Archives, this remarkable illustrated biography marks the 40th anniversary of Elvis’s death—and tells his story as never ...

In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most im...

The singer shares photographs of her concert tour depicting both performances on stage and activities behind the scenes, and offers comments about her life ...

Legendarisch muzikant Dave Grohl, drummer van Nirvana en zanger van de Foo Fighters, vertelt verhalen uit zijn unieke muzikale levenCategories: Arts & P...

jeannette Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Both Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary Walls Had Four C...

Michael O'donoghue Was A Comic Genius Who Once Said, Making People Laugh Is The Lowest Form Of Comedy. His Widely Influential Style Of Humor Spared No One's...

Though he never reached the lead actor status he labored so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928–1982) is one of the most memorable and skilled cha...

In this biography, Anka Muhlstein presents the fascinating life of Russian Historian Astolphe de Custine, one of the first members of French society to liv...

Steven C. Smith ; With A New Preface. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 401-404) And Index.Categories: Humor & EntertainmentPerforming Arts

Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Ba...

Outlines Five Expressions Of Love--quality Time, Words Of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts Of Service, And Physical Touch--and Explains How To Identify And Communic...