Diary Biography

Every day, President Obama reads ten representative letters among the thousands he receives from citizens across the land. The letters come from people of all ages, walks of life, and political points of view. Some are heart­breaking, some angry, some hopeful. Indeed, Obama reads as many letters addressed “Dear Jackass” as “Dear Mr. President.” Eli Saslow, a young and rising star at the Washington Post, became fascinated by the power of these letters and set out to find the stories behind them. Ten Letters is an inspiring and important book about ordi­nary people....

To erfarne retsmedicinere tager os med på arbejde verden rundt i forbindelse med naturkatastrofer, krig, terror og tortur. Bogen er en ærlig, åbenhjertig og nogle gange rystende brevveksling gennem knap tre årtier. Hougen og Rogde bruger hinanden som både faglige sparringspartnere og som en trøstende skulder, når der er brug for det. Sammen og hver for sig har de oplevet vold og katastrofer af dimensioner, som i flere tilfælde overgår fantasien.

A broke and unemployed musician lands a gig driving a cab through the swamplands of South Louisiana while bobbing and weaving through a nighttime world ruled by drugs, guns, saints, and strippers. In this fuel-injected work of creative nonfiction, Grammy-nominated musician and award-winning writer Dege Legg - also known as Brother Dege - recounts five years behind the wheel while documenting the underworld of Lafayette and its Cajun and Creole hinterlands from the submarine bubble of his cab.

The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume Two is the second volume of John Muir's letters, written by a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and advocate for wilderness preservation in the United States. The letters in this volume cover the period from 1873 to 1903 and provide additional insight into Muir's thoughts, experiences, and the development of his beliefs about the natural world.

Dal Taccuino dell’aiuto-regista impaginato da Bruno Munari a Parliamo d’altro, passando per L’uovo alla kok, straordinario capolavoro di letteratura gastronomica, per la prima volta sono qui raccolte in un unico volume tutte le opere di Aldo Buzzi (1910-2009), "maestro nascosto" della nostra letteratura. Eclettico, (auto)ironico, imprevedibile, in oltre sessant’anni di scrittura Buzzi conduce il lettore dalla Roma del cinema di Fellini e Lattuada alla New York dell’amico Saul Steinberg, alla Russia di Cechov.

A personal-sounding email in the midst of so much unsolicited junk, announcing “Your friend passed away”, captures the author’s attention and takes him to a flashback mode. A long-lost friend; with whom he had spent hours in deep, animated conversations; his views on varied topics ranging from the Universe, origin, and evolution of life to the gods up there in the sky; and many others flashed past the mind.

Doug Heywood was a teenager when he discovered, in a shoebox hidden in a wardrobe, hundreds of letters, all written by his father, Scott Heywood. As a POW on the infamous Burma Railway, Scott wrote almost daily to his young wife, Margery, on scraps of paper that had to be hidden from guards. These letters tell of an enduring love – and also, intriguingly, of how Scott dealt with the most brutally testing circumstances.

Eine außergewöhnliche Künstlerehe - mit bislang unveröffentlichten Briefen. Die Briefe, die Theodor Fontane und seine Frau Emilie wechselten, gewähren intime Einblicke in die Höhen und Tiefen einer Dichterexistenz und zeichnen das lebendige Bild einer starken Frau, die aus dem Schatten ihres Mannes tritt.

Margaret Kennedy was an acclaimed novelist and playwright best-known for The Constant Nymph. In this autobiographical account, taken from her war diaries, she conveys the tension, frustration, and bewilderment of the progression of the war, and the terror of knowing that the worst is to come, but not yet knowing what the worst will be. English bravery, confusion, stubbornness, and dark humor provide the more hopeful side of her experiences, in which she and her children move from Surrey to Cornwall, to sit out the war amidst a quietly efficient Home Guard and the most scandalous rumors.

Puto cáncer aborda en primera persona, literariamente y con humor el tránsito de una enfermedad que muchos ni se atreven a pronunciar. En palabras de la autora, se trata del diario íntimo de una paciente oncológica, que mezcla experiencias propias (ella superó un cáncer de intestino diagnosticado a los 35 años) y de otra gente a la que ha acompañado en el grupo de ayuda mutua Apostar a la vida.

Der sensationelle Lebensroman des unvergessenen Stars. Als Manfred Krug 1996 anfing, ein Tagebuch zu führen, konnte er nicht ahnen, wie dramatisch die folgenden Jahre für ihn werden würden. Er droht aus seinen Rollen als Ehemann, Schauspieler und Freund zu stürzen. Seine Bekenntnisse sind offen, existentiell und spannend wie ein Krimi. Zeit seines Lebens hat der große Schauspieler, Sänger und Autor die Tagebücher wie seinen Augapfel gehütet. Ihre Veröffentlichung stellt eine Sensation dar.

Niels Bøgh Andersens "Krigsdagbog" er et enestående historisk dokument over Anden Verdenskrig set fra den tyske side af fronten. Daglige begravelser, forår i Paris, vinter i 45 graders frost i Hviderusland, hjemve af den værste skuffe og alligevel små lysglimt i mørket. Niels Bøgh Andersen var en del af det danske mindretal i Sydslesvig og blev indkaldt til at kæmpe for et land, som han ikke selv så som sit fædreland. Niels Bøgh-Andersen (1908-1991) var en dansk lærer og forfatter, der i en årrække var forstander for Jaruplund Højskole.

Il diario di una vita divisa in quattro lati, come un quadrato perfetto. Ogni lato influenza gli altri, con cesure inevitabili. Lina, arrivata all’ultimo quarto, racconta i suoi anni con irresistibile ironia: è impicciona, libera, disobbediente anche agli acciacchi della vecchiaia. Il rapporto complicato con la figlia, l’amore per i nipoti che vuole far crescere liberi, la passione per il giornalismo, le nuove tecnologie sempre più complicate, i disastri, le dimenticanze.

Vom Leben und anderen Komplikationen – Moderatorin Bettina Tietjen zieht Bilanz. Als Bettina Tietjen im Keller ihre alten Tagebücher wiederfindet, beginnt für sie eine aufwühlende Zeitreise. Sie begegnet ihrem 14-jährigen Ich wieder, das sich leidenschaftlich politisch positioniert, taucht ein in die ersten, manchmal auch nur heiß ersehnten Liebschaften, die Jahre der Abnabelung vom strenggläubigen Elternhaus und die große Suche nach dem Lebensglück.

Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window—their circling, strident calls—and thinks of D. H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children, and that most explosive of writers. Proceeding month by month through the year, she sets out to start again with Lawrence: to find vital literary companionship; to use him as a guide to rural living and even, unexpectedly, to child-rearing; to find a way through his writing to excavate the modern world she feels he helped bring into being.

Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child. As Ella's treatment for her cancer began, she started drafting letters to her daughter. To tell her about life, love, death, the importance of cotton knickers and—above all—her family.

While Pilot Officer Geoffrey Myers was caught up in the Battle of Britain, his French wife and two half-Jewish children were trapped in increasingly dangerous circumstances in Nazi-occupied France. In intimate, frank, and powerful letters, Myers kept a record of his war, his deep love for his wife Margot and their children, and his heart-wrenching fear for their safety as they tried to escape. Secret Letters: A Battle of Britain Love Story is an incredibly rare personal account of some of the major turning points of WWII.

Le lettere sono un altro spazio in cui trovare Cesare Pavese. Insieme alle traduzioni, alle poesie, ai romanzi e ai racconti, l’epistolario di Cesare Pavese rappresenta un ulteriore specchio in cui scoprire riflessa l’immagine dell’uomo, di quella costruzione di sé che ha caratterizzato tutto il percorso intellettuale dello scrittore. Uomo e scrittore.

In the spring of 2018 writer / reporter Holly Nadler gave up her year-round apartment on Martha’s Vineyard even as everyone cried out, “Don’t do it! You’ll never find another one!” And they were right! Follow her around the Vineyard with her dear old thug of a Boston terrier as she lodges in a lilac-walled cottage which is enchanting except for the fact that it has no running water.

The deepest currents of passion seldom break the surface of literature. Romantic classics abound; but however skilled a writer may be in verbalising an emotional experience, he cannot publicly evoke the heat of blood, the yearning of soul, bared in perfect intimacy between two beings. But letters can do this, and songs never meant to be sung by any but the lover, or the beloved.