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The true story of a disgraced journalist, the accused murderer who stole his identity, and their complex friendship -- now a major motion picture. In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media.

Un jour, ma mère m'a appris que j'avais une dette envers quelqu'un. Un type que ni elle ni moi n'aimions. Je ne savais pas quoi faire de cet aveu. Alors je l'ai enfoui dans ma « chambre des vérités embarrassantes ». À cinquante ans, j'ai décidé d'écrire une lettre à cet odieux personnage. Pour mieux comprendre et peut-être me libérer de cette dette. Je croyais en avoir pour quelques soirs, mais ça m'a pris des mois. Car ce n'est pas tous les jours qu'on écrit à... Nicolae Ceaușescu, tyran de la Roumanie pendant vingt-deux ans.

Winner of the National Book Award — It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-Second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court.

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner. A New York Times Notable Book. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick. A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR, and Barack Obama. With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father's strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet.

New York Times Bestseller – A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.

Instant New York Times bestseller — NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year. "A bittersweet study in both grief and joy." — Time. "A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes" (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age — from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving.

My Works, Ye Mighty expands upon the conceptual literature of Christian Bök, particularly his ongoing project, The Xenotext. Based on work conducted during his tenure as Writer-in-Residence at Athabasca University, this essay addresses the concept of "scale" in poetry, meditating on it with an abundance of imagery. The essay appears alongside an epic poem specially written by Bök for this publication.

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, her thoughts on writing, and her commentary on literary science fiction and fantasy and their future. "We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night." — Ursula K. Le Guin.

Instant New York Times bestseller. An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail.

"A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life."—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True. "[A] stirring and sparkling new memoir."—The Washington Post. One of the Best Books of the Month: Time, Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan. Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary encounter.