When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Rorem's self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written between 1951 and 1955, was also a mirror of the[...]
Beginning with a letter of admiration for James Salter's novel A Sport and a Pastime, the correspondence between Robert Phelps and James Salter developed into a long friendship spanning two decades. These letters give an intimate look at the professional and personal trials of each author and their [...]
James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel, A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer, that in 1969 elicited a letter of admiration from a writer and critic he did not know-Rob[...]
"One of the unlikeliest books of last year was "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us ," a fictional account by Ralph Nader, a veteran left-wing campaigner, of a movement of billionaires led by Warren Buffett . . . who use their fortunes to clean up America. . . . Perhaps the Sage of Omaha, as Mr. Buffett[...]
A powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart disease therapy. Based on the groundbreaking results of a twenty-year nutritional study by Dr. Esselstyn, a preeminent researcher and clinician, this book illustrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of hear[...]
"The Collected Stories of Colette beings together in one volume for the first time in any language the comprehensive collection of short stories by the novelist known worldwide as Colette, and now acknowledged, with Proust, as the most original French narrative writer of the first half of our centur[...]