Diary Biography

The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by more than 70 million people. In this volume, Shaun Usher turns to the subject of sex.

أيضًا سنجد بين هذه الصفحات حكايات مثيرة وغنية بالمعلومات التي أثارت أزمة بعد النشر في الوسط السياسي عن علاقة ماجدة بالرؤساء ناصر والسادات ومبارك، ورأيها في كل منهم بمنتهى الصراحة، وكلامها الحقيقي عن أزمتها مع النقاد والصحافة والمفكرين والروائيين.

James remembers the day he began to plot to kill his father, Harry: It was the day before his seventh birthday, and he finally realized his mom was not going to leave him.

David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a missionary to the Native Americans in Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania. Edited by the eminent Puritan theologian and Preacher Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (1749) became a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including the theologian John Wesley and missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot.

The Momster Diaries shines the light on riveting and compelling survival stories with intimacy and candor. This is Jordyn's story.

Autor irrepetible, forjador de un nuevo modo de ver y contar, maestro del cuento, la literatura en Chéjov se filtra en cada palabra que esculpía, más allá de su obra de ficción: "la literatura es mi amante". Amor, vida y literatura. Eso es lo que el lector disfrutará con esta compilación de cartas y aforismos en los que la figura de Chéjov aumenta, crece y nos atraviesa porque quizá no haya mejor lectura que internarse en la mente, en las palabras secretas, en la sensibilidad de un genio.

في لندن بداية الثمانينات سافر كاتب هذه المذكرات لمرافقة أخيه لتلقي العلاج من داء سرطان الدم وهناك حصلت معه الكثير من المغامرات فما الذي دفعه لنشرها الآن بعد مرور أكثر من 25 عامًا عليها؟!

After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway, Colonel Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors. Of course his account does not admit to this, but what is clear is that in addition to the deprivation and hardship suffered by all POWs, the author bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese.

Goldene Kamera, Goldene Schallplatte - Goldener Herbst. Ein neues Jahrtausend bricht an, und ein für alle Mal will Manfred Krug das für ihn so erfolgreiche Schauspiel-Kapitel schließen. Am 11. November 2000 fällt die letzte Klappe beim Tatort - bye-bye, Hamburg! Voller Elan tritt Krug seine zweite Gesangskarriere an. Drei Platten erscheinen, darunter "Schlafstörung", die er für seine beste hält. Quer durch Deutschland geht er auf musikalische Lesereise und besucht Städte, die er von früher kennt. Emotionale Erinnerungen, gravierende Veränderungen.

In 1983, Thomas Mallon was still unknown. A literature professor at Vassar College, his days were spent travelling from Manhattan to campus, reviewing books to make ends meet, and searching the city for his own purpose and fulfillment. The AIDS epidemic was beginning to surge in New York City, the ever-bustling epicenter of literary culture and gay life, alive with parties, art, and sex. Though he didn’t know it, everything would soon change for Mallon.

These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their publication in 1917. They begin with a fragment of a letter from teenaged Sam Clemens to his sister, Pamela, and conclude with a letter to his attorney two weeks before his death. These letters give us some degree of insight into the evolution of Twain's style of speech and prose over the period of his lifetime.

Un día en la vida es el tercer volumen de Los diarios de Emilio Renzi. Aquí explora un proceso vial y creativo, de su obra y vida personal. Reflexiona acerca de la literatura a través de lecturas muy diversas.

Gay icon, great poet, leather daddy, eccentric professor, English, American, biker, non-driver, drug addict, hedonist, intellectual, enigmatic, friendly, Everyman, one-of-a-kind, brother, roommate, HIV-negative, paradigmatic AIDS writer, Nazi belt wearer, Jeff Dahmer scholar, Guggenheim Genius, secret philanthropist, Formalist, Existentialist, prolific letter writer, some-sort-of-an-angel...Thom Gunn was all of these and more... But hovering above these figures lay the memory of his mother.

All'improvviso, un vecchio baule: bell'inizio, per la storia di un attore. E in effetti il "tesoretto" di lettere e diari di sua madre Gigliola e di sua nonna Titina, ritrovato in una soffitta, si trasforma per Massimo Lopez in un vero e proprio viaggio, non solo nella memoria. Decide infatti di ricostruire tappa per tappa il passato della sua famiglia vagabonda, che girava di città in città seguendo il lavoro del padre. Cosa è rimasto delle case che ricorda?

Not only is Graham Peterson unlucky in his choice of careers, he's also been terrible with women throughout his adult life. That changes when he meets Alison on a work night out. Unfortunately for Graham, however, things change so drastically that within a month of dating Alison he gets the news that he's about to become a father for the first time.

O primeiro lançamento dos diários de Carolina Maria de Jesus registra os meses em que a escritora morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960. Edição ampliada e integral, com conteúdo inédito e introdução de Conceição Evaristo e Vera Eunice de Jesus. Com narração de Zezé Motta. Com edição integral, ampliada com conteúdo inédito e refeita a partir dos manuscritos originais da autora, este primeiro volume de Casa de alvenaria abarca os meses em que Carolina Maria de Jesus morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960, após deixar a favela do Canindé.

Published for the first time in the United States, Combat Diary is the war story of Dog Battery, also known US Army Gun Battalion D. Originally only published in Germany in 1945, it tells the tale of 150 US soldiers as they arrive in England in July of 1944. The battalion arrives on the beaches of Normandy, fights through France—and ultimately into Germany—at the time of the fall of the Nazi regime. It is an intimate account of the actions and endurance of the soldiers over those seven months.

The Psychedelic Diaries marries traditional memoir to today’s conversations around sex, drugs, and current world events by following 24-year-old Kaitlin Tilotta’s adventures as a professional dominatrix on a deliberate five-month experimental psychedelic drug bender.

Wenn Metin nach Feierabend mal wieder an seine Kühlschranktür klopft, weiß er, dass an diesem Tag sehr viele Patient*innen nach ihm gerufen haben – Er ist Krankenpfleger durch und durch, und ohne diese Leidenschaft geht das in seinen Augen auch gar nicht. Denn das kaputtgesparte Gesundheitssystem, der stressige Klinikalltag und die mangelnde Wertschätzung machen seinen Job zu einer Herausforderung. Doch die Patient*innen stehen immer an erster Stelle und das Team hält zusammen.

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..