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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
Ringolevio
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Emmett Grogan
Grogan
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Grogan went from street punk to teenage junkie to countercultural icon in a few years. As the leader of the San Francisco Diggers in the '60s he set the tone—puckish, anarchic, radical—for a movement that was to alter the social fabric. He was also a great self-mythologizer. As Paul Krassner put it, "The leader of the Diggers doesn't exist, and his name is Emmett Grogan."
Contributors: Peter Coyote |
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Afloat
Afloat
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Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant
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Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK)
Contributors: Douglas Parmée |
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A Journey Round My Skull
Journey Round My Skull
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Frigyes Karinthy
Karinthy
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The author was 48 when he was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. His memoir follows him through the stages of symptom, diagnosis, and surgery. "Karinthy's book is, to my mind, a masterpiece. . . . A Journey Around My Skull, the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best."—Oliver Sacks, from the Introduction.
Contributors: Oliver Sacks , Vernon Duckworth Barker |
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Memoirs of Montparnasse
Memoirs of Montparnasse
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John Glassco
Glassco
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1927. Finding college life "depressing...to a point where [he] could not go on" John "Buffy" Glassco decamped for Paris. Forty years later, he reconstructed this memoir à clef of his rollicking youth among the haute bohemians of the day, including Hemingway, Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Kay Boyle.
Contributors: Louis Begley |
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Pages from the Goncourt Journals
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
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Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Goncourt
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No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt.
Contributors: Geoff Dyer , Robert Baldick |
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Mani
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him on his journeys amongst the peoples of the southernmost parts of Greece, exploring their history and time-honored lore.
Contributors: Michael Gorra |
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Roumeli: Travels In Northern Greece
Roumeli
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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Travel writing's very own "cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene" explores northern Greece.
Contributors: Patricia Storace |
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Conundrum
Conundrum
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Jan Morris
Morris
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A pioneering memoir exploring the borders of gender and early sex-reassignment surgery. |
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Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg
Moura
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Nina Berberova
Berberova
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In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction.
Contributors: Marian Schwartz, Richard D. Sylvester |
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Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
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Francis Steegmuller
Steegmuller
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A work of scholarship, a profound contribution to literary criticism, Flaubert and Madame Bovary is a biographical study executed with all the precision and vision of a great novel.
Contributors: Victor Brombert |
