Memoir Essays

Learn about these golf legends as they were learning to master the game on their home turf. In Grown at Glen Garden, the early friendship of Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson is shown, from their caddying days at Glen Garden Country Club to their chummy rivalry at the Masters decades later. With a peek at their family backgrounds, the story shows both the hardships and joys of growing up and learning to golf in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1920s.

Best-selling and Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie offers incisive, often humorous takes on literature, culture, and world events in this New York Times Notable Book. In these stimulating pieces, Rushdie addresses a variety of subjects, including the death of the novel, India, soccer, and the Rolling Stones.

角栄はなぜ葬られたのか？　新証言と膨大な資料を駆使した人気作家渾身の超弩級ノンフィクション！

永遠の別れを経て知る、夫婦とは、愛とは、生きるとは――。「Mr.フジテレビ」と呼ばれた夫を狂おしいほど愛し抜いた女優の絶望と再生の物語。

Before Adam Farrer’s family relocated to Withernsea in 1992, he’d never heard of the Holderness coast. The move represented one thing to Adam: a chance to leave the insecurities of early adolescence behind. And he could do that anywhere. What he didn’t know was how much he’d grow to love the quirks and people of this faded Yorkshire resort, in spite of its dilapidated attractions and retreating clifftops. While Adam documents the minutiae of small-town life, he lays bare experiences that are universal.

朝日新聞を退職し、50歳を過ぎて始めたのは、ピアノ。人生後半戦、ずっとやりたくても、できなかったことをやってみる。他人の評価はどうでもいい。

今も語り継がれる世紀の名勝負 総勢50名の証言で紐解く史上最高の日本シリーズ。1992年、93年と2年間にわたって激闘が繰り広げられた西武ライオンズとヤクルトスワローズの日本シリーズ。

東大病院救急医療の現場で、人間の生と死を見つめてきた医師が伝えたいこと。
「人生100年時代」と言われても、自分の寿命がいつ尽きるかはわからない。

今の子どもたちは、家の周囲に空き地や原っぱもないし、そんな時間もなくなって、「缶蹴り」や「陣取り」をして遊ぶような、幼馴染の世界を失っているけれども、ウルトラセブンをつくっていた人間関係は、

なぜ、あのMCはスゴいのか。MCの遍歴は、時代を映す鏡だ！MCの源流・大橋巨泉から、ハプニング込みの笑いを作ったビッグ３の全盛期。

笑えて、ときに泣けてしまう爆走エッセイ!この本を読んで後悔する人はいない。むしろ感謝に満ちると思う。岸田家にも自分にも、明日があることに。

下巻は、様々な雑誌に寄せたエッセイや、シナリオ応募から小説家デビューまでを綴った連載など。こうして作家・湊かなえは誕生した！　ファン待望の、ベストセラー作家の初エッセイ集！

滋賀県愛あふるるエッセイ。琵琶湖が何県にあるのか知らない人が実は多い、「千葉」や「佐賀」とよく間違えられる、比叡山延暦寺があるのは京都じゃない――

人生はあっという間と言うけれど、走馬灯に映し出される色とりどりの絵のごとく、たくさんの喜怒哀楽があり、これまで生きてきた年月は、実は長いのだと、このエッセイは教えてくれる。

Many creatures lurk in the dark, weaving on top of one another, roiling together like waves on the night sea. The darkness forms in layers to encompass the land, fill the corners, and obscure angles. Untold mysteries lie just beyond reach told in many tongues, many inflections, many rhythms. The stories are many. Innumerable. Legion.

Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers across cultures who sustain her. As borders close in and nations enter lockdown, the journey that Kim traces is fraught-and at once illuminates that the act of remaining present has its own power, allowing boundless hope.

Every photograph is a frozen moment, a story waiting to be told. A wedding photograph of a secret marriage. A dapper man who may be a lost relative. Three women covered in funeral shrouds. A brother. A father. A sonogram. These are six of the seventeen that comprise an album of photographs and their stories—nonfiction short stories found and told by a group of Columbia Journalism students. Perhaps in discovering these stories you may set off to find your own photographs, and with them, the stories they tell.

Though celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein was firmly rooted in New York's cultural life, her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays, all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein's mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection— everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity to family, fashion, and real estate.

世界的スニーカーショップ「atmos（アトモス）」創業社長、初の著書！

たとえ戦争から逃げても、夢からは逃げない。・テレビ朝日 報道ステーションで複数回単独特集、オンエア後問合せ殺到！