by Julia Holmes
100 New Yorkers profiles painters, comedians, crooners, politicians—even a pirate—and the places associated with them in the city. It describes affairs and love stories, feats of the imagination, lurid scandals, and fabulous parties. Throughout, 100 New Yorkers features the incomparable panorama of the city—the drama surrounding the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the music of smoky Harlem lounges in the 1940s, and the bustle of Coney Island in its heyday; with 100 black and white photographs.
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In this delightful memoir, the director Jean Renoir tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter, recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality. In the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding the book "remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have." Includes twelve pages of color plates and eighteen pages of black and white images.

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by Daniel Paul Schreber • Introduction by Rosemary Dinnage

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. Composed while he was confined to a psychiatric hospital, his book is perhaps the most revealing dispatch ever received from the far side of madness. As Rosemary Dinnage writes, Schreber wrote "an account of what it is to be foresaken by everything familiar and real, and of the delusionary world that gets invented in their place."
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by Marina Tsvetayeva, Boris Pasternak, and Rainer Maria Rilke Introduction by Susan Sontag

Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three great poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure. Tsvetayeva was struggling, in exile in France. Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the Bolsheviks. Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion.
PB • 5" x 8" • 288 pp

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Living in Paris in the Twenties, Harry Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the Lost Generation until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.

"The best biography I have ever read."—James Dickey

"Crosby emerges as a character as complex and fascinating as Zelda or Alice Toklas, even Ezra Pound. ...A breathtaking story." —San Francisco Chronicle

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by William Roughead • Introduction by Luc Sante

Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland.
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by Evan Connell • Introduction by A.M. Homes

In this novel, a young man—not so young anymore—spurned at home and at work, sits in his cramped apartment channeling everything around him into a diary that is a record of a world going to pieces. "Connell has been on a quiet mission, as an artist, historian and, perhaps most of all, as a gloriously insidious philosopher of our true heritage, for more than 50 years. He's produced five unexpected, wholly original American classics. Living American authors of his stature can be counted on one hand."—Salon.com
PB • 5" x 8" • 272 pp

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The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time

By S.N. Behrman
Introduction by Glenn Lowry

In a series of articles originally published in The New Yorker, playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the larger-than-life Duveen, art dealer to Henry Clay Frick, William Randolph Hearst, and others, and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearly—but not quite—priceless masterpieces.

"A witty and hypnotically readable biography."—Clifton Fadiman

ISBN: 1892145170 • Paperback

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Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. With a novelist's felicity, Mitford restores grace and humanity to the royal mistress, celebrating her as a survivor, unsurpassed in the art of living, who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.

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