Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels; the most recent is Jack Holmes and His Friend. He teaches writing at Princeton.
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Bold When It Counted
April 5, 2012
The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ’50s, New York in the ’60s: A Memoir of Publishing’s Golden Age
by Richard Seaver, edited by Jeannette Seaver
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A Hungry Little Boy
January 12, 2012
Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac
by Anka Muhlstein, translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
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The Rogue Genius
October 27, 2011
Malaparte: Vies et Légendes
by Maurizio Serra
Kaputt
by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno, with an afterword by Dan Hofstadter
The Skin
by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by David Moore
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Paul Bowles: The Desert and Solitude
July 14, 2011
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‘The Finest Novel About World War I’
May 12, 2011
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The Panorama of Ford Madox Ford
March 24, 2011
Parade’s End, Volume 1: Some Do Not…
by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Max Saunders
Parade’s End, Volume 2: No More Parades
by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Joseph Wiesenfarth
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The Beats: Pictures of a Legend
August 19, 2010
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 2–September 6, 2010
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More Lad Than Bad
June 24, 2010
The Pregnant Widow
by Martin Amis
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The Strange Charms of John Cheever
April 8, 2010
Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey
Collected Stories and Other Writings
by John Cheever
Complete Novels: The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer, Oh What a Paradise It Seems
by John Cheever
Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories
by John Cheever, edited by Franklin H. Dennis
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Sensual in the South
July 2, 2009
Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back
by Reynolds Price
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The Loves of the Falcon
February 12, 2009
Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
by Jerry Rosco
The Grandmothers
with an introduction by Sargent Bush Jr.
Goodbye, Wisconsin
with an introduction by Jerry Roscoe and illustrations by Steve Chappell
The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story
with an introduction by Michael Cunningham
Apartment in Athens
with an introduction by David Leavitt
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‘In Love with Duras’
October 23, 2008
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In Love with Duras
June 26, 2008
Wartime Writings: 1943–1949
by Marguerite Duras, edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, and translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
The War: A Memoir
by Marguerite Duras,translated from the French by Barbara Bray
The North China Lover
by Marguerite Duras, translated from the French by Leigh Hafrey
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The Making of John Rechy
April 3, 2008
About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
by John Rechy
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Portrait of a Sissy
March 6, 2008
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Sons and Brothers
October 11, 2007
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872
edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, with an introduction by Alfred Habegger
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
by Robert D. Richardson
Letters of Marcel Proust
translated from the French by Mina Curtiss, with an introduction by Adam Gopnik
Henry James at Work
by Theodora Bosanquet, edited and with notes by Lyall H. Powers
Henry James Goes to Paris
by Peter Brooks
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Bunner & the Sisters
June 14, 2007
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The House of Edith
April 26, 2007
Edith Wharton
by Hermione Lee
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The Tragedy of Central Europe
April 26, 1984
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Nabokov’s Passion
March 29, 1984
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The Beats: Pictures of a Legend
July 22, 2010
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Among Leopards and Princes
June 1, 2010
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The Wood God in Valencia
October 16, 2009