Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22
10 best books like Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22 (Erica Heller): The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House, The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America, Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat, Willie: An Autobiography, Elegy for Iris, James Joyce, Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743202260 |
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an astounding...
| Author | April Ryan |
| ISBN | 1442238410 |
2016 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Essence Top 10 books of 2015, African American Literary Show Inc. 2015 Best Non Fiction Award In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from...
| Author | Candlewick Press |
| ISBN | 0763694924 |
In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten.
The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn....
| Author | Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0743214811 |
In his award-winning book Beyond Valor, Patrick O'Donnell reveals the true nature of the European Theater in World War II, as told by those who survived. Now, with Into the Rising Sun, O'Donnell tells the story of the brutal Pacific War, based on hundreds of interviews spanning a decade. The men who fought...
| Author | Willie Nelson |
| ISBN | 0815410808 |
Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his depression ere...
| Author | John Bayley |
| ISBN | 0312421117 |
With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 2762123216 |
Although Edna O'Brien has never trafficked in James Joyce's head-over-heels brand of high modernism, she does have a couple of characteristics in common with her great predecessor. After all, both authors engaged in a profoundly ambivalent excoriation of their native Ireland. And while O'Brien's...
| Author | Carson McCullers |
| ISBN | 0299164446 |
More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation—the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Ballad of Sad...
| Author | Janet Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0375506683 |
A perfect match of author and subject. In an effort to know one of her favorite writers better. Janet Malcolm -- who has brought light to the dark and complicated corners of psychoanalysis and has exposed the treacheries inherent within journalism--traveled to Russia and the places where Chekhov lived...
Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood
| Author | Nancy Schoenberger |
| ISBN | 0306811871 |
You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was clutching her portrait when he died). She was Lady Caroline Blackwood, legendarily witty and alluring but...
The "The Last Station", portraying Tolstoy's last days when his wife Sophia learned of his secret will leaving his copyrights to the Russian people, piqued my interest in Tolstoy. Only so much can be shown in a film and what was missing was the background that underpinned Tolstoy's decision. In this...
| Author | Imre Kertész |
| ISBN | 1612192025 |
The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize–winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—with himself
Dossier K. is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature—an...
| Author | Mary Gordon |
| ISBN | 0375424571 |
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she had “invented...
| Author | Andrei Codrescu |
| ISBN | 0691147248 |
"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their...
| Author | Anka Muhlstein |
| ISBN | 1590514734 |
"Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are."
This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein's erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread in his novels,...
| Author | Edwin Williamson |
| ISBN | 0143035568 |
Edwin Williamson’s major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borges’s life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side of Borges: his roots in Argentina, the evolution of his political ideas, his...
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times
| Author | Ralph Stanley |
| ISBN | 1592404251 |
My daddy raised me on old-time music, and hearing the songs today makes me homesick for the mountains. I also remember hearing that Ralph was a big Dylan fan, and had recordings of his folk songs put to banjo. When this book came out, I knew I had to read it. I read this book with another Stanley Brother fan...
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
| Author | Julie Salamon |
| ISBN | 1594202982 |
4 ½ stars, ½ star off because of the lack of humor within these pages
I’m completely wrung out after reading this book, and felt that way during my entire reading of it. More on that later.
But first: This is an excellent book. It’s well written and fascinating. It is exactly what...
A Card from Angela Carter
| Author | Susannah Clapp |
| ISBN | 1408826909 |
Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from any Booker Prize shortlists led to the foundation of the Orange Prize.
Angela Carter sent...
Hollywood: A Third Memoir
| Author | Larry McMurtry |
| ISBN | 1439159955 |
"One thing I’ve always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by."
In this final...
How to Make Money Using Etsy: A Guide to the Online Marketplace for Crafts and Handmade Products
| Author | Timothy Adam |
| ISBN | 0470944560 |
In a world where most products are manufactured by machines, Etsy offers an online platform for makers of handmade products and crafts to market and sell their goods to a vast network of buyers who demand unique, genuine products. To date, the site has attracted over 400,000 sellers who collectively...
Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen
| Author | Jimmy McDonough |
| ISBN | 0670021539 |
The first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music
The twentieth century had three great female singers who plumbed the darkest corners of their hearts and transformed private grief into public dramas. In opera, there was the unsurpassed Maria Callas. In jazz, the...
"Na Primavera, regressámos a Fez e ficámos no Belvedere. Eu estava a terminar The Sheltering Sky e a Jane estava imersa na sua novela Camp Cataract. Ao raiar do dia, tomávamos o pequeno-almoço na cama no seu quarto. Depois, eu ia para o meu quarto, deixando a porta aberta para que pudéssemos comunicar,...
The Pi**ed-Off Parents Club
First-time mum Roxy feels perennially ticked off. She and her partner Jack have left London for a new life in the village of Riverside, with their ten-month-old daughter Joey. But their new house resembles a building site and Roxy is struggling to cope with parenthood. With no family or friends to turn...
