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10 best books like The Diaries, 1931-1965 (Dawn Powell): Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography, The Gray Notebook, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan's America, Journals and Letters, The Journal of Jules Renard, The House by the Sea, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara, You Can't Catch Death, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, Wormwood: A Drama of Paris

Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
AuthorJean Rhys
ISBN0140184058


There is something sadly fitting about Smile Please ’s being an unfinished autobiography. According to her publisher Diana Athill in the volume's foreword, Rhys was reluctant to revisit in an autobiography painful aspects of her past that she had already treated in her novels. At the same...
The Gray Notebook
AuthorJosep Pla
ISBN1590176715
Josep Pla, a budding young writer, was studying law in Barcelona in 1918 when the university was shut down because of the Spanish flu epidemic. Pla returned to his parents’ house in the coastal town of Palafrugell, and with nothing to do he decided to keep a journal in which he would describe—as a way...
The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan's America
AuthorAllison Green
ISBN1932010777
Curious about her enduring love for Richard Brautigan’s work, Allison Green embarks on a roadtrip tracing the route of his most famous work, Trout Fishing in America. As she travels, she examines the way we relate to the things that influence us—the ancestors who created us, the past that shaped...
Journals and Letters
AuthorFanny Burney
ISBN0140436243
Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years...
The Journal of Jules Renard
AuthorJules Renard
ISBN0979419875
Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains largely undiscovered in the United...
The House by the Sea
AuthorMay Sarton
ISBN0393313905
This is the sixth of Sarton’s journals I’ve read. It covers 1975–6, when she was 63–4 and in her second year in Maine. Her health is not yet a worry, at least as compared to later journals, but there is a faint sense of diminished abilities and an awareness of death’s approach. Poetry has run dry...
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
AuthorBrad Gooch
ISBN0394571185
Received this book from friend Phyllis years ago and never read it until this month. Gooch's biography of poet and Musuem of Modern Art curator Frank O'Hara is informative and well-researched and documented. Gooch also incorporates many excerpts from O'Hara's poetry to show how the poet's experiences...
You Can't Catch Death
AuthorIanthe Brautigan
ISBN0312264186
In all of the obituaries and writing about Richard Brautigan that appeared after his suicide, none revealed to Ianthe Brautigan the father she knew. Through it took all of her courage, she delved into her memories, good and bad, to retrieve him, and began to write. You Can't Catch Death is a frank, courageous,...
A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
AuthorThomas Mallon
ISBN1886913021
Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon...
Wormwood: A Drama of Paris
AuthorMarie Corelli
ISBN1551114194
Though disparaged by literary critics of her day, Marie Corelli was one of the most popular novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Wormwood (1890) is a lurid tale of unrequited love, betrayal, vengeance, murder, suicide, and addiction. The novel recounts the degeneration of Gaston...
Novas Cartas Portuguesas
AuthorMaria Isabel Barreno
«Reescrevendo, pois, as conhecidas cartas seiscentistas da freira portuguesa, Novas Cartas Portuguesas afirma-se como um libelo contra a ideologia vigente no período pré-25 de Abril (denunciando a guerra colonial, o sistema judicial, a emigração, a violência, a situação das mulheres),...
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
AuthorEdmond de Goncourt
No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt

The journal of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature, a work that in its richness of...
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
AuthorMarina Tsvetaeva
ISBN0300069227
Take a very talented and spirited poet, and place her in Moscow between the years 1917 and 1922. What you have is Marina Tsvetaeva is Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922. Although the people of Moscow during this period suffered from near famine (Marina's youngest daughter was placed in a state...
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
AuthorGeoffrey Wolff
ISBN1590170660
Includes an afterword by the author

Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs,...
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
AuthorRobert Polito
ISBN0679733523
Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche,...
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
AuthorTracy Daugherty
ISBN0312378688
In the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement. He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, including such masterpieces as "Me and Miss Mandible," the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical...
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
AuthorHarry Graf Kessler
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed...
Mad in Pursuit
AuthorViolette Leduc
ISBN1573227404
In the second remarkable volume of her life story, Mad In Pursuit, the war is finally over. A new generation of writers has appeared in Paris, among them Camus, Genet, Startre, and Cocteau, and every day, they can be seen writing at the marble-topped of the Cafe de Flore. Already in her thirties at the time....
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156260387
Quattro stelle per una lettura interessante, anche curiosa, alla ricerca di uno stile, di una vita, di una donna d'eccezione.
Virginia si rivela. Per quanto è possibile rivelarsi. Ha degli obiettivi specifici su questa scrittura : fare 'esercizio' con le parole. La sua anima, almeno inizialmente...
Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files
AuthorMary Ann Caws
ISBN0500282439
Joseph Cornell is a legendary yet living presence in American art. His famous boxes, with their ineffably perfect choice of elements -- the stuffed birds, the buttons and toys, the fragments of old theatrical posters, the poignant allusions to the worlds of the nineteenth-century ballet and opera...
The Forging of a Rebel
AuthorArturo Barea
ISBN0802776159
Originally published in the late 1940s, and never before available in paperback in the United States, Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation during the first four decades of the twentieth century, one of the most crucial periods in...
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0061227986
On New Year's Day 1973, Joyce Carol Oates began keeping a journal, which she maintains to this day. Already a well-established literary force by the age of thirty-four, Oates had written three books that had been named finalists for the National Book Award (in 1968, 1969, and 1972), and her novel them...
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
AuthorJanet Flanner
ISBN0156709902

When I bought this in the mid 70's I had never heard of Janet Flanner.
It was Paris that I was mad about.
Really enjoyed the book but took the writer for granted.
Here I got to know how the French behaved
between 1925 to 1939,
and gained many insights.
Janet turned out to be a...
Reality, Reality
AuthorJackie Kay
Of Scottish author Jackie Kay's work, I have to date read two poetry collections, Bantam and The Adoption Papers.  I liked the core ideas of both collections, but was ultimately disappointed by them.  For me, neither quite came together as well as I was expecting.  I was still keen, however,...
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