Editors, Journalists, Publishers
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The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch
$29.95 Add to cartLocated in New York’s theatre district, the Algonquin Hotel became an artistic hub for the city and a landmark in America’s cultural life. It was a meeting place and home away from home for such lumin… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Bercovici, Konrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1438497237
- Language: English
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A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
$31.99 Add to cartThe classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee–with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.T… [more below]
- Author: Bradlee, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1501191713
- Language: English
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
$19.99 Add to cartThe Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson’s life as a rebel–from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting … [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0684873249
- Language: English
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Corpse Had a Familiar Face (Revised, Updated)
$24.99 Add to cart
Now in trade paperback, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan’s classic nonfiction masterpiece detailing events from her eighteen years writing for The Miami Herald.
Nobody covered love and lunacy, lif… [more below]- Author: Buchanan, Edna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1439141142
- Language: English
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Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher
$60.00 Read more“The story of a book-making life.”–New York Times
“The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world that some gifts of grace endure. That promise is r- Author: Godine, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1567926762
- Language: English
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Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop
$20.00 Add to cartThe profoundly moving family history of one of America’s greatest newspapermen.
As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld- Author: Lelyveld, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425104
- Language: English
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Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays
$35.00 Add to cartAn exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens.
“A troublemaker of the good ki
- Author: Wasserman, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146471
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Charleston
$31.99 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe arrived in Charleston in November 1827 chased by storms, both literal and figurative. Some of the author’s previous indiscretions caused him to enlist in the U.S. Army six months earli… [more below]
- Author: Downey, Christopher Byrd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1540242161
- Language: English
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Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
$21.99 Add to cartDorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.
Most ci- Author: Gilliam, Dorothy Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1546083456
- Language: English
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You Were Never in Chicago
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. A
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022610415X
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
$17.99 Add to cartWarning *
This book contains the following:
Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives
Cultivation of illegal crops
Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities
Piloting
- Author: Cleverly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 006115928X
- Language: English
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Sunshine Warm Sober: The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober – Forever
$14.99 Add to cartThe new book from Catherine Gray – icon of the Quit Lit movement and author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
“Stone cold sober.” As the millions who choose to stay sober now know, the propaganda a- Author: Gray, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783255404
- Language: English
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A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the beloved–often controversial–co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of “Stan the Man,” who spun
- Author: Fingeroth, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250766184
- Language: English
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
$15.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.
Dis
- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0061136689
- Language: English
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
$30.00 Add to cartThe year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year-old boy living in Baltimore. As the war rages somewhere far beyond the boundaries of his hometow… [more below]
- Author: Osgood, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 30 2007
- ISBN10: 1401300235
- Language: English
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More to Tell
$26.65 Add to cartAfter working for almost a decade as an award-winning television news reporter, Crystal Bui had become numb to the idea of death-until George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis. Reporters are responsible f… [more below]
- Author: Bui, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: March 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1665739959
- Language: English
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A Drinking Life: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is “a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction” (New York Times).
As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pe… [more below]- Author: Hamill, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0316341029
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$24.95 Add to cartOn October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own–he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discov… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0916727688
- Language: English
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Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling King Leopold’s Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild’s conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 07 2005
- ISBN10: 061843920X
- Language: English
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Let Me Finish
$19.99 Add to cartWidely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiogra… [more below]
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2007
- ISBN10: 015603218X
- Language: English
