Editors, Journalists, Publishers
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Avid Reader: A Life
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the Anne M. Sperber Prize
A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time.
After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-- Author: Gottlieb, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141052
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Alcohol-Free Life
$12.99 Add to cartGoing sober will make you happier, healthier, wealthier, slimmer and sexier. Despite all of these upsides, it’s easier said than done. This inspirational, aspirational and highly relatable narrative c… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1912023385
- Language: English
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Teachers: The Ones I Can’t Forget
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing in-depth reportage from NBC news correspondent Martin Fletcher, Teachers offers inspiring lessons learned from everyday people on the worst days of their lives.
- Author: Fletcher, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1636981070
- Language: English
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Never the Hope Itself
$17.99 Add to cartA former NPR correspondent takes you into his own ghost-filled life as he reports on a region in turmoil. Gerry Hadden was training to become a Buddhist monk when opportunity came knocking: the offer
- Author: Hadden, Gerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 23-Jun-21
- ISBN10: 0062020072
- Language: English
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Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion
$27.95 Add to cartA down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene–from backyard skateboard ramps and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon–as told by one of its founding… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1797217224
- Language: English
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
$32.50 Add to cartMarguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberatio
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393882128
- Language: English
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Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe
$36.99 Read moreCuriosity led Edward Epstein to investigate some of the greatest political mysteries of our time, such as the JFK assassination in Dallas, the Vatican banking scandal in Rome, and the diamond cartel i
- Author: Epstein, Edward Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641772948
- Language: English
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The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA rollicking history of America’s most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New- Author: Romano, Tricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541736397
- Language: English
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Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
$30.00 Read moreThe life and times of High Times‘ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who–between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts–battled
- Author: Howe, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0306923912
- Language: English
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Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher
$26.99 Add to cartTake a peek behind the curtain of some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.
Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a- Author: Sargent, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763856
- Language: English
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE – A prize-winning historian’s “effervescent” (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War I… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 525511210
- Language: English
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Once I Was You: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNPR’s Best Books of 2020
“Anyone striving to understand and improve this country shoul
BookPage‘s Best Books of 2020
Real Simple‘s Best Books of 2020
Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020- Author: Hinojosa, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 31, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982128666
- Language: English
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartTHE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER–FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most g- Author: Walls, Jeannette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17, 2006
- ISBN10: 074324754X
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$10.99 Read moreTHE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA’S SEGREGATED SOUTH
“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”–Atlanta Journal & Constitu- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0451234219
- Language: English
