Arts & Literature

"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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...