Résultats Éditeur "Random House Audio" dans Art et littérature

Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites.

Charles E. Chapin, the notorious editor-tyrant of Joseph Pulitzer's New York Evening World during America's Gilded Age, made headlines himself after murdering his wife of 39 years. This extensively researched biography brings to life Chapin's tragic story, from his childhood to his days spent cultivating a beautiful rose garden in Sing Sing prison to the last moments of his life.

One of America's most admired television newsmen gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the 20th century. Here is the voice we know from Nightline - intelligent, curious, opinionated, witty, concerned - reminding us in entertaining and thought-provoking ways that even the most public events reverberate in our private lives. Hear an interview with Ted Koppel on The Connection.

The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life, the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about The New York Times, the Mafia, the sex industry, and, focusing on his own family, the American immigrant experience.

A poetic narrative organized by regret, Another Shot provides an insightful glimpse into the life and mind of regular guy Joe Kita. It's a tumultuous and sometimes uncomfortable journey. But Kita is hilarious, insightful, and - most of all - inspiring enough to make you ponder: Why not give it another shot?

With The Huntress, the Arlens give us a revealing picture of the lifestyle and traditions of the Patterson-Medill publishing dynasty—one of the country's most powerful and influential newspaper families—but also Alicia's rebellious early years and her dominating father, Joseph Patterson. Founder and editor of the New York Daily News, Patterson was a complicated and glamorous figure who in his youth had reported on Pancho Villa in Mexico and had outraged his conservative Chicago family by briefly espousing socialism.

Das Hörbuch präsentiert Szenen u.a. aus "La Traviata" und "Die Hochzeit des Figaro" sowie Felsensteins Rede vor dem Ensemble der Komischen Oper Berlin vom 3.9.74 - das künstlerische Vermächtnis von Walter Felsenstein.

Die Biografie "Ingeborg Bachmann" von Joachim Hoell stellt die Lebens- und Werkgeschichte der bedeutendsten österreichischen Schriftstellerin des 20. Jahrhunderts umfassend dar: Von ihrer prägenden Kindheit in Klagenfurt während des Nazi-Regimes über ihre Beziehung zu Paul Celan, Hans Werner Henze und Max Frisch bis hin zu ihrem tragischen Tod in Rom.

Helen Gurley Brown's life story - a classic American rags-to-riches tale - is just as juicy as her controversial books. In this wonderful new biography, writer and reporter Gerri Hirshey traces Brown's path from deep in the Arkansas Ozarks to her wild single years in Los Angeles, from the New York magazine world to her Hollywood adventures with her film producer husband. A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon.

People know Bill Moyers mostly from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. His appearances draw sell-out crowds across the country and are among the most reproduced on the Web. Richly insightful, and alive with a fierce, abiding love for our country, Moyers on Democracy is essential listening.

Friedrich Schiller: Jugendliches Genie, Revolutionär, Dichter. Rüdiger Safranski entstaubt in seiner großen Schiller-Biographie eine der schwungvollsten Gestalten unserer Literatur. Friedrich Schiller läutete mit seinem Enthusiasmus die Epoche der deutschen Geistesgeschichte ein, die man später den "Deutschen Idealismus" genannt hat. Mit diesem großen Buch über Schillers Leben und Denken könnte seine Renaissance beginnen.

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive search for “atonement in women". The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was 10 years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and “summoned her dead". She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cœur.

In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before", when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930s, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature.

This intellectual biography of Tagore, perhaps the first of its kind, portrays him as a man who was deeply skeptical, self-critical, tormented by conflicts in his inner life, aware of the historical significance of his times and continually interacting with adversaries and friends across the world; someone who built on the heritage of the 19th-century renaissance in India and became one of the makers of the modern Indian mind.

"Wenn Sie Schriftsteller werden wollen, müssen Sie vor allem zweierlei tun: Viel lesen und viel schreiben. Um diese beiden Dinge kommen Sie nicht herum, nicht dass ich wüsste." Stephen King. Während der Genesung nach einem schweren Unfall schreibt Stephen King seine Memoiren – Leben und Schreiben sind eins. Ein unverzichtbarer Ratgeber für alle angehenden Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller und eine Fundgrube für alle, die mehr über den König des Horror-Genres erfahren wollen. Ein kluges und gleichzeitig packendes Hörbuch über gelebte Literatur.

Die Freundschaftsgeschichte DER beiden deutschen Geistesgrößen. Jeder der beiden sagte vom anderen, er sei ihm der wichtigste Mensch gewesen. Sie waren grundverschieden, doch Gegensätze ziehen sich an. Intuition und Gefühl bei Goethe, scharfer Intellekt und zäher Wille bei Schiller; der eine setzt auf Natur, der andere auf Freiheit. Ihre Freundschaft mit allen Konflikten und Spannungen hat beide zu Höchstleistungen angespornt: Schiller schreibt seine klassischen Dramen und bringt sie mit Goethes Hilfe auf die Bühne.

The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.”

Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a black sheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder.

Life and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s twelve masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In “The Lives of Others,” he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don’t, and sometimes can’t, know?

As James Schiff writes in the introduction to this volume, of the writer who would eventually express himself in written form as fully as any American writer since Henry James, "Updike needed to write the way the rest of us need to breathe or eat." With his stunning rhetorical gifts—allowing him to thrive in both fiction and nonfiction, in criticism as well as poetry—he was also a consummate letter writer.