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From Kristallnacht to Watergate
(September 2013)
Memoirs of a Newspaperman
Harry Rosenfeld - Author
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An insider’s account of how the Washington Post broke the Watergate story, depicting the tensions, challenges, and personal conflicts that were overcome as it laid bare the criminal wrongdoings of the Nixon administration.
In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second ...(Read More) |
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The Kingdom of the Kid
(July 2013)
Growing Up in the Long-Lost Hamptons
Geoff Gehman - Author
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Recalls a childhood on Long Island as the counterculture sixties were sliding into the seventies and the Hamptons were still a middle-class sanctuary.
The Kingdom of the Kid is a memorable portrait of an indelible childhood on Long Island’s South Fork from 1967 to 1972, when the Hamptons were still a middle-class paradise. In six short years, journalist Geoff Gehman was changed forever by a host of remarkable chara...(Read More) |
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Vanished by the Danube
(July 2013)
Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the West
Charles Farkas - Author
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A story of loss and survival.
Germany’s invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life—its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry—as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at...(Read More) |
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L Is for Lion
(February 2013)
An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto - Author
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A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.
This vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her father’s lullabies laced with his dissociative memories of combat in World War II. At four years old, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto bounced her Spaldeen on ...(Read More) |
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Still in the Hamptons
(July 2012)
More Tales of the Rich, the Famous, and the Rest of Us
Dan Rattiner - Author
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More encounters with the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of the Hamptons, by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers.
“Dan’s memoirs are like Dan’s newspapers: charming, whimsical, fun, and filled with insightful knowledge of the East End conveyed with a twinkle in the eye. Come to think of it, that describes Dan in person as well! Buy this book!” — Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs...(Read More) |
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Hiding Places
(April 2012)
A Mother, a Daughter, an Uncovered Life
Diane Wyshogrod - Author
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Finalist - 2013 Montaigne Medal, presented by Hopewell Publications
A daughter struggles to get her mother to talk about her Holocaust experiences, and tries to understand how those experiences have shaped her own life.
What’s it like to spend sixteen months in hiding, crouching in a tiny cellar, during the dark years of World War II? To know that many of your friends and relatives have either been shot...(Read More) |
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Mentors, Muses & Monsters
(February 2012)
30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives
Elizabeth Benedict - Editor
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Thirty writers look back at the people, events, and books that launched their literary careers.
In therich, impassioned essays collected here, thirty of today’s brightest literary lights address the question of mentorship and influence, exploring those times in their development as writers when a special person, a beloved book, or a certain job gave them the courage to take a bold chance on their own gifts. For Jane Smiley...(Read More) |
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Reframing the Practice of Philosophy
(January 2012)
Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge
George Yancy - Editor
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Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.
This daring and bold book is the first to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-philosophical concerns, approaches, and visions. The voices within this book protest and theorize from their own standpoints, delineat...(Read More) |
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Breaching Jericho's Walls
(March 2011)
A Twentieth-Century African American Life
Allen B. Ballard - Author
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An award-winning African American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadelphia childhood in the 1930s to midcentury Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.
A rich narrative recounting the life story of award-winning African American historian and novelist Allen B. Ballard, Breaching Jericho’s Walls takes its readers on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadel...(Read More) |
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Coach
(March 2011)
25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference
Andrew Blauner - Editor
David Duchovny - Preface
Bill Bradley - Foreword by
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Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.
For everyone who has heard the beloved whistle at the end of a grueling practice, only to eagerly await the next, Coach is a treasure trove of insights and wisdom from the mouths of those we cherish, seen through the eyes of those we admire most. This book offers the reflections of twenty-five notable...(Read More) |
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