Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
5 best books like Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (Robert Gottlieb): Let the Great World Spin, The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution, In the Land of Pain, The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America, The House of the Vampire
| Author | Colum McCann |
| ISBN | 1400063736 |
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below,...
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
| Author | Marc Weingarten |
| ISBN | 1400049830 |
This is an incredibly interesting book, especially the beginning, which explains how writers such as Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens were precursors to the "new journalists" who came of age in the 1960s. I would highly recommend this book, even though I had many issues with it. The first is that it...
| Author | Alphonse Daudet |
| ISBN | 0375414851 |
As Julian Barnes writes in the introduction to his superb translation of Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou, the mostly forgotten writer nowadays “ate at the top literary table” during his lifetime (1840–1897). Henry James described him as “the happiest novelist” and “the most charming...
The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
A rare, insider’s look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research
Readers around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill O’Reilly’s...
| Author | George Sylvester Viereck |
| ISBN | 0982046707 |
One of the first psychic vampire novels of its time - where the vampire feeds off of more than just blood - The House of the Vampire is an early classic in its genre. Republished in this new edition, this Victorian novel operates in the continuum of life and death. What has been can be again, though often terribly...
