My Life As Author And Editor
10 best books like My Life As Author And Editor (H.L. Mencken): George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President, A Quiet Storm, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, Selected Letters, 1913-1965, The Holy Barbarians, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Monsieur Proust, A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister, Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
Author | Jacob Weisberg |
ISBN | 0743222229 |
They misunderestimated me."
Or did they?
Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotated, and introduced by Slate magazine's Jacob Weisberg.
"I know the human being and fish can coexist...
Author | Rachel Howzell Hall |
In this vividly written, suspense-driven novel, the secrets shared between two sisters erupt in tragedy. Rikki Moore was always the star of the family, easily outshining her younger sister, Stacy, at every turn. Smart, kind, and beautiful, it was no surprise when Rikki met and married the perfect...
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...
Author | Arianna Huffington |
ISBN | 1400051266 |
Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers?
Provocative political...
Selected Letters, 1913-1965
Author | Dawn Powell |
ISBN | 0805065059 |
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell traces a richly talented writer's fifty-two-year journey from her childhood in a small Ohio town to the glitter of Manhattan. Powell was a prolific letter writer, and her correspondence provides an intimate look at the woman about whom The New York Times recently said:...
This is a Rory book. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
I loved that show, and I found some good titles that eventually became awesome books. So, yes. It's a Rory book... Don't question my sources. (?)
September 27, 2013
Update
Oh, yes. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life will be released...
Author | Seymour M. Hersh |
ISBN | 0394714504 |
Investigative journalist Hersh made one of his earliest splashes documenting the My Lai atrocity at the height of the Vietnam War; this short, angry book summarizes his research and findings. Unfortunately for modern readers, it's a leftist polemic that spends as much time trashing the American...
Author | Céleste Albaret |
ISBN | 1590170598 |
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
Author | Julie Mars |
ISBN | 0974207454 |
After witnessing her older sister's losing battle with pancreatic cancer, "her journey though the dark landscape of religious doubt toward her God," Mars was overtaken with a compulsion: she wanted to go to church. So, she dedicated herself to visiting 31 houses of worship over a period of as many weeks....
Author | Jan Lars Jensen |
ISBN | 0786715626 |
This book isn't the typical book I'd read, but my husband gave it to me for Christmas because I'm a writer. I enjoyed the book, but it's not something I'd read again. It was a quick read (it took me a few months because I put it down to read other books). Sometimes when I read it before sleeping, I'd have dreams...
Author | T.J. Binyon |
ISBN | 1400076528 |
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate...
Author | Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor |
ISBN | 0548869707 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
Author | Anne Collet |
ISBN | 1571312447 |
Tales about the author's encounters with cetaceans and pinnipeds. While stories of this ilk have the potential to veer off into "new agey" territory, these absolutely do not. Collet is a marine biologist and in addition to describing various events in straightforward terms, she also uses her book...
Author | Jim Irvin |
ISBN | 1841954381 |
The non-Classical long-player had a good commercial run, and The MOJO Collection, compiled by writers for the UK-published MOJO Magazine, chronologically assembles more than 1,700 definitive LP titles from the format’s history. Using brief but informative essays to highlight each album’s...
Author | Donald Kagan |
ISBN | 0801499402 |
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal...
Author | Ron Suskind |
ISBN | 0743255461 |
Updated with a new afterword and including a selection of key documents, this is the explosive account of how the Bush administration makes policy on war, taxes, and politics -- its true agenda exposed by a member of the Bush cabinet.
This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that...
Author | Philip N. Meyer |
ISBN | 0826215688 |
For more than thirty years the newspaper industry has been losing readers at a slow but steady rate. News professionals are inclined to blame themselves, but the real culprit is technology and its competing demands on the public's time. The Internet is just the latest in a long series of new information...
A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960
Author | Milton Friedman |
ISBN | 0691003548 |
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly...
Author | Emily Dickinson |
ISBN | 0807844160 |
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
Author | Alvin Granowsky |
ISBN | 0811466345 |
-- The non-traditional version is told through the eyes of the other characters, stimulating critical thought in young readers.
-- Flip-book format physically mimics the "two sides of the story", allowing easy comparisons.
-- Full-color artwork is executed in two distinct styles.
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Author | Joe Harvard |
ISBN | 0826415504 |
The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation,...