Little Failure: A Memoir

By Gary Shteyngart

Little Failure: A Memoir

A novelistic and immensely readable account of the author's early life.

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

Shining a light on the relationship between authors and alcohol.

My Crazy Century: A Memoir

By Ivan Klíma; translated by Craig Cravens

My Crazy Century: A Memoir

The celebrated novelist's memoir tells the tale of how a man lived without freedom and fought for it.

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

The award-winning writer presents 22 essays that reveal her deepening understanding of love and commitment.

The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye

A theatrical study of the Yiddish writer whose short stories were the source for “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

Men We Reaped

The deaths of five loved men and how their loss shaped the life of the National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones.

Nina Sankovitch

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Remembrance, life lessons and conversations with friends, all from a book a day.

By John McMillian

Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

Meet the precursor to the blogosphere.