Top Ten Things You'll Learn When You Read This Book: 10) Jay was beaten up by an MMA fighter on live television. 9) Interviewing Will Ferrell can be a harrowing experience....

Author and humorist Faith Salie jumps heart-first into Romance literature to find out what makes a great love story - on and off the page....

Writer Ashley Ford wants to know about authors’ firsts. First love. First draft. First rejection....

David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...

At a time when Vancouver Island was still an extremely remote, a young widow packed her five children into a 25-foot boat dubbed The Caprice and set off on an adventure....

She led a social revolution against sexual and racial barriers - now she tackles the barriers within ourselves....

Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution....

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War....

From Oahu to Detroit, “Little Saigon” to Brooklyn, authors from all walks of life take us to the real worlds that inspired their works. Hosted by reporters Amy Standen and Michael Epstein....

Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars....

Until now, few people have gotten to know the real Gisele, a woman whose private life stands in dramatic contrast to her public image. In Lessons, she reveals for the first time who she really is and what she's learned over the past 37 years to help her live a meaningful life....

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....

For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred D’Aguiar, 2020 was a year of personal and global crisis. The world around him was shattered by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States, California burned, and D’Aguiar was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Year of Plagues is an intimate, multifaceted exploration of these seismic events. Drawn from two cultural perspectives - his Caribbean upbringing and his American lifestyle - D’Aguiar’s memoir is a paean of resistance to despotic authority and life-threatening disease.

Inside One Author’s Heart offers a rare glimpse behind the image of a best-selling writer. Instead of her sweeping tales of the Old South, Ms. Price focuses on herself, her admirers, and the special way in which they nourish each other. She tells it straight - with “warts and flaws” and, at all times, an endearing sense of humor about herself and her work. 

This book is going to change how you think about clothes and yourself. Part memoir and part guidebook, it features Morgan A. Wider’s personal evolution that led to where she is now - transforming the wardrobes, mentalities, and lives of women across the world.

The son of one of the greatest writers of our time - Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquez - remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.

In more than five decades as a reporter, editor and publisher, Peter Osnos has had an especially good view of momentous events and relationships with some of the most influential personalities of our time. In this unusually wide-ranging memoir, Osnos uses a reporter's skills to portray historic events and encounters beginning with his parents' extraordinary World War II experiences escaping Europe to India, where he was born, to the present day. He shares unique portraits of the famous people he worked with and an insider's perspective of the news and publishing businesses.

Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes listeners back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news.