Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
| Author | Renia Spiegel |
| ISBN | 1250244021 |
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt.
Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki,...
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
| Author | Olivia Laing |
| ISBN | 1250039576 |
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting...
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
"I'm reading this book right now and loving it!"--Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild
How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy?
"A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different...
| Author | Jerzy Kosiński |
| ISBN | 0802135269 |
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted Bird and Being There comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which his life has been woven.
Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of...
| Author | Rene Denfeld |
| ISBN | 0062698184 |
After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning...
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 0525937900 |
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the “rat bohemia” of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians abandoned by their families and forced to find new bonds with one another in the wake of this loss. Navigating the currents...
| Author | Victor Bockris |
| ISBN | 1857028058 |
A QUOTE FROM ANDY TO SET THE TONE
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
POOR JOHNNY ONE NOTE
I have a problem with 90% of all modern art – no make that 95%. To put this in context, I have a problem with 95% of everything, and...
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| Author | Carolina Setterwall |
"Den sista gången jag säger god natt till dig vet jag inte att det är sista gången jag gör det. Om jag hade vetat det hade jag förmodligen lagt mer energi i avskedet. I stället säger jag att jag tror att jag går och lägger mig hos Ivan snart. Du protesterar inte. Med blicken fäst vid din dator låter...
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
| Author | Emily Guendelsberger |
| ISBN | 0316509000 |
After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she traveled...
Finding Zsa Zsa: The Gabors Behind the Legend
For decades, the Gabor dynasty was the epitome of glamour and fairy tale success. But as biographer, film historian, and Gabor family friend Sam Staggs reveals, behind the headlines is a true story more dramatic, fabulous, and surprising than their self-styled legend would have you believe . . .
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