Diary Biography

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.

من وحي أيام المرض التي قضاها الشاعر الراحل أمل دنقل في الغرفة رقم 8 في مستشفى قصر العيني في القاهرة في عام 1983، جاءت مذكرات صديقة فهمي عبد السلام بعد 34 عاماً من الرحيل، لتجدد الأحزان وتثير الشجون حول مسيرة شاعر الرفض ومحنة مرضه العضال، الذي سكن جسده وأنهى حياته وهو في أوج مجده وعطائه وصلابته..

Dacia Maraini che è stata una delle amiche più vicine a Pier Paolo Pasolini, in queste pagine intesse un dialogo intimo e sincero capace di prolungare e ravvivare un affetto profondo, nutrito di stima, esperienze artistiche e cinematografiche, idee e viaggi. Maraini costruisce questa confessione delicata come una corrispondenza senza tempo, in cui tutto è presente e vivo. Una voce necessaria per capire oggi chi è stato davvero uno degli uomini che hanno fatto la storia della cultura del Novecento.

Para los lectores, hay pocas experiencias tan asombrosas e inolvidables como la primera lectura de Kafka. No importa lo que uno haya leído antes: cruzarse con una de sus novelas o cuentos, con un fragmento de sus diarios, es aprender a leer de un modo nuevo. La prosa precisa y de resonancias alegóricas; la capacidad para urdir tramas perfectas donde la lógica de la pesadilla convive con el grotesco; el modo de narrar la inapelable arbitrariedad del poder; el don único de volver verosímil lo que en principio parece imposible de alcanzar ese estatuto.

Written with flair and exuberance, Joan Rice's diary is a compelling and personal account of life and love in the Second World War. Including additional material from her husband's own diary, Sand in my Shoes is a record of one woman's coming-of-age.

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.

Queste raccolta completa di lettere scritte dalla Austen, (159), sono indirizzate quasi sempre alla sorella Cassandra, nei brevi periodi in cui non vivevano insieme. Molte sono state in gran parte distrutte da quest'ultima dopo la morte di Jane; pertanto dobbiamo prendere le lettere per quello che sono, senza aspettarci di trovarvi espressioni di soggetti privati come sentimenti, religione, politica. Ma queste istantanee di vita quotidiana, una dopo l'altra, hanno il potere di introdurci un po' alla volta nel suo mondo privato.

Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship. This account, told with much detail and candor, was one of the various journals written by Boswell, but it is the journal that has undergone the least amount of censorship, leading it, and the racy material within, to be deemed a best seller upon publication.

Amanda Vaill, Jerome Robbins biographer and authority, drawing on the vast and closely held Robbins archives, has put together a selection of his writings, giving us a sense of his extraordinary range as a thinker and artist, as well as a surprising and revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of this towering cultural giant.

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native enlisted when he turned 18, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Home Front to Battlefront is the tale of a foot soldier who finds himself thrust into a world where he and his unit grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home - all in the same day.

The men and women honored in Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation speak in this collection of letters from and about the Depression and World War II.

> Little Women's "Marmee" is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real woman behind the fiction - Louisa May Alcott's own mother, Abigail - has for more than a century remained shrouded in mystery. Scholars believed that her papers were burned by her daughter and husband, as they claimed, and that little additional information survived. Until now.

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder "what Royko would have said" about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly ever wrote or talked about, though, was his private life, especially the time he shared with his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life, and her premature death at the age of 44 shook him to his soul.

Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen - potentially forever. In the face of this, Professor Jenny Hocking embarked on a four-year legal battle to force the Archives to release the letters. In 2015, she mounted a crowd-funded campaign, securing a stellar pro bono team that took her case all the way to the High Court of Australia.

Step inside the mind of Donna Francart, a former deputy coroner, as she describes to you her years of medicolegal death investigations. What began as her personal diary written to herself, her way of debriefing, began to form a heartbeat of it's own.

"Корней Иванович Чуковский (1882-1969) - русский советский поэт, публицист, литературный критик, переводчик и литературовед, детский писатель, журналист. Самый издаваемый в Советском Союзе и России автор детской литературы.

One of my most empowering endeavors emerged from mastering the art of driving an 18-wheeler OTR (Over the Road). This career not only proved remarkable, but also dynamically altered the course of my life. Through its challenges and triumphs, it became a defining chapter that reshaped my trajectory in countless ways.

There are 3 types of malls in Singapore. The first is the Orchard Mall, filled with Tai-tais, TWGs, and price-tags which can blind you. The second is the Strata Mall; a little shabby, a little eclectic, with the forlorn air of an impending en-bloc. The last is the Capitaland Mall, designed for mass appeal and precision-engineered for profit. They are, by far, the most ubiquitous, but also the most formulaic. So which category does the brand new Funan Mall fall under?

THE DIARIES OF A DOORMAN RELOADED' was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original ‘DIARIES OF A DOORMAN’ books, step back one more time deep into, the often murky world, of working the doors! It's not a life that's for everyone, a world where every night you are potentially putting your neck on the line to keep night-time revellers safe.

Este libro reúne los diarios que Julia Toro escribió desde 1983 hasta el estallido social de 2019, y en ellos repasa los hitos de su vida y del ambiente artístico en los años ochenta, noventa y dos mil. Con una mirada sensible y aguda, da cuenta de sus aspiraciones y obsesiones, su visión de la fotografía, su vida como artista, sus frustraciones y su visión sobre la vejez, entre otros grandes temas.