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John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916-March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, Ciardi pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont, and recorded commentaries for National Public Radio. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, How Does a Poem Mean?, which has proven to be among the most-used books of its kind. The following recording is from a speech Ciardi gave in 1965.

In 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began what would become one of history’s most influential works of art—The Last Supper. After a decade at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point: at forty-three, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise. His latest failure was a giant bronze horse to honor Sforza’s father, made with material expropriated by the military.

Federigo Tozzi (Siena, 1º gennaio 1883 – Roma, 21 marzo 1920) è stato uno scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo e giornalista italiano. Per lungo tempo misconosciuto, è stato rivalutato solo molti anni dopo la sua scomparsa ed è ormai considerato uno dei più importanti narratori italiani del Novecento, oggetto di un'attenzione critica sempre crescente.

Questo libro ripercorre, attraverso le sue inchieste e i suoi articoli principali, la straordinaria avventura professionale di un protagonista del giornalismo italiano. Dagli esordi come cronista nella Roma del delitto Pasolini e delle rivolte dei movimenti extraparlamentari e studenteschi, al lavoro investigativo nel drammatico quinquennio nero (1978-83): il rapimento e l'esecuzione di Aldo Moro; gli omicidi a Roma del magistrato Riccardo Palma, responsabile degli istituti di prevenzione e pena – «Qui Brigate rosse.

Telefonieren mit Marlene Dietrich, Momente mit Lauren Bacall oder Eartha Kitt. Ein geplatzter Reißverschluss am Kleid von Verona Feldbusch, ein Song von Cindy Crawford, ein guter Rat von Greta Garbo und eine brenzlige Fotosession mit Pamela Anderson. Sharon Stone und Katarina Witt im Fahrstuhl, 44 Jahre wahre Freundschaft mit Lilo Wanders, und auch Isabella Rossellini, Ute Lemper, Joan Collins, Gianni Versace, Wolfgang Joop, Barbara Becker, Heidi Klum, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Rush oder Christopher Lee stand er gegenüber. Und was hat das alles mit Marianne Rosenberg zu tun?

In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves.

לקרוע אב מילדיו ואשתו ולמכור אותו בשוק כאילו היה חפץ? להצליף בו כדי שיעבוד בפרך בשדות הכותנה מבלי שיורשה להוציא מילה מפיו? להעניש אותו כי עזר לאשה חולה? - מה הביא את...

Elena Poniatowska cree que le habría beneficiado dejar el periodismo para dedicarse a la novela, pero no pudo hacerlo porque su profesión la atrapó. En varias tardes de té con el periodista Gustavo Borges en Chimalistac, compartió esta y otras confesiones sobre su oficio. La crónica Tardes de té con Elena, seleccionada por la Fundación Gabo para un taller de Martín Caparrós en 2023, no es una biografía ni una apología, sino un retrato de perfil de la influyente autora mexicana. Gustavo Borges presenta los momentos clave de la obra de Poniatowska con un enfoque agudo y emotivo.

בשנת 1620 הגיעה ספינת העבדים הראשונה לחופי אמריקה ומאז, במשך כמאתיים חמישים שנה, התנפלו ציידי עבדים על כפרים אפריקאים. הם חטפו גברים, נשים, ילדות וילדים, כלאו אותם...

James Augusta Joyce (February 2, 1882 to January 13, 1941), born in Dublin, was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century. The following recording was made in 1929 by C.K. Odgen in the studio of the Orthological Society in Cambridge during which Joyce read from his novel, “Finnegans Wake.”

Alcide ha quarant'anni, a volte dorme ancora con sua madre, prende sette pasticche al giorno (cinque la mattina e due dopo cena), ed è considerato «un paziente lucido, vigile, collaborativo, dall'eloquio fluido». È un essere umano «difettoso» tra i tanti, ma i suoi difetti stanno tutti dentro quattro pagine di diagnosi controfirmate da uno dei piú famosi psichiatri italiani: «disturbo bipolare», «spettro dell'autismo», «dissociazione dell'io», «antipsicotici», «pensieri di mancata autoconservazione»...

В этой аудиокниге представлены автобиографические новеллы одного из величайших писателей двадцатого века - Исаака Бабеля. Каждая из них воссоздает особый мир, запечатлевшийся в памяти автора: воспоминания о детстве и первой любви, колоритной Одессе с ее криминальными легендами и беспощадные описания революционного Петрограда. Сочетая сострадание Достоевского с язвительным остроумием Чехова, Бабель создал свой собственный точный с журналисткой точки зрения и в тоже время лиричный литературный стиль, который отличает его от всех других писателей постсоветской России.

Henry David Thoreau was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of US literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau's Walden, an autobiographical narrative of his two-year sojourn in a self-built lakeside cabin, is one of the most widely studied works of American literature. It has generated scores of literary imitations and experiments in back-to-basics living.

Once again, the poet casts her spell as she resumes one of the greatest personal narratives of our time. In this continuation, Angelou relates how she joins a "colony" of Black American expatriates in Ghana—only to discover no one ever goes home again.

Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless people with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew.

The Trembling Hand turns an urgent critical gaze onto six major Romantic authors, examining how their lives and works were entangled with the racist realities of their era. Mathelinda Nabugodi pores over carefully preserved manuscripts, travels to the houses where these writers lived and died, examines the personal objects which survived them: a teacup, a baby rattle, a lock of hair.