Anchor imprint: 1481 books
The Life and Death of Classical Music
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould,...
Sex and Real Estate
Why We Love Houses
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Cultural historian Marjorie Garber offers incisive and witty commentary on what men and women today really want in her enlightening study of what may be the most meaningful relationship any of us will ever have.
Real estate has become a form of “yuppie pornography.” Hopes of summer romance...
Posterity
Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’s most storied families.
Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating...
Eudora Welty
A Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Eudora Welty is a beloved institution of Southern fiction and American literature, whose closely guarded privacy has prevented a full-scale study of her life and work--until now.
A significant contribution to the world of letters, Ann Waldron's biography chronicles the history and achievements...
Art and Madness
A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Luminous and intensely personal, Art and Madness recounts the lost years of Anne Roiphe’s twenties, when the soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed author put her dreams of becoming a writer on hold to devote herself to the magnetic but coercive male artists of the period.
Coming of age in the 1950s,...
The Folded Clock
A Diary
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she’d since become. Instead, “The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor.”
Thus...
The Uncollected David Rakoff
Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Bestselling and Thurber Prize–winning humorist David Rakoff was one of the most original, delightfully acerbic voices of his generation. Here, in one place, is the best of his previously uncollected material—most never before published in book form.
David Rakoff’s singular personality...
by Robert Lanham
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
hip•ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part...
Intro to Haiku
An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Harold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. In 1930 he went to Japan, where he lived the following three years. On his return to this country he joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he taught Japanese and...
Bad News
Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The author of the acclaimed Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo now moves on to Rwanda for a gripping look at a country caught still in political and social unrest, years after the genocide that shocked the world.
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Bad News is the story of Anjan Sundaram's time running a journalist's...
This Old Man
All in Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life.
Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and...
Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.
In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s...
In the Kingdom of Ice
The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age
In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress...
The Platinum Age of Television
From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli traces the evolution of the classic TV genres,...