Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Arts et littérature

In this exquisitely written new audiobook by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories - of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness - Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories.

Après avoir été tour à tour humoriste et animateur de télévision, c’est aujourd’hui dans l’écriture que Dany Turcotte prend plaisir. D. Turcotte et fils est son premier livre. Il y raconte son enfance à Jonquière, au Saguenay, au sein d’une famille marquée par l’alcoolisme de son père, la faillite de l’entreprise familiale, D. Turcotte et fils, et le divorce de ses parents.

La muy premiada biografía definitiva de Elvis Presley, en edición revisada y económica, en dos volúmenes. Pasará mucho tiempo antes de que otra biografía coseche tan encendidos elogios como los obtenidos por esta obra definitiva (el adjetivo no es, por una vez, hiperbólico) sobre la fulgurante ascensión y la apoteósica decadencia de un cantante ya instalado en la mitología popular contemporánea.

Joining us at Audible Studios is Bill Bryson, one of Britain's best-selling nonfiction authors. Bryson has captivated the hearts and minds of Britons with his genial character, general cheerfulness and amazing ability to simplify overwhelming science into something that can be understood by all. Not only has Bryson given us all the ability to inform ourselves on the most complex of topics, but he provides a wry and uplifting perspective on travel in all regards, from the Appalachian trail to small mining villages in England.

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.

In this exclusive interview, best-selling author Elmore Leonard talks with Audible's Beth Anderson about his long and prolific career, his writing process, and what it's like to have an inside track on Hollywood. Leonard has sold most of his books to Hollywood, several of which have been made into movies, including Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, and its sequel, Be Cool, starring John Travolta and Uma Thurman. Be Cool hits theaters March 4.

Rapidi, pastosi, materici come le pennellate di un pittore informale, i capitoli che compongono questa autobiografia, attraversano il Novecento più colto e avventuroso. Fra una risata irriverente e qualche nostalgia, Ezio Frigerio ricorda la sua lunga esistenza con una sorprendente lucidità sentimentale. Nato da famiglia benestante comasca durante il fascismo, l’autore non esita a sorridere malignamente della buona borghesia locale.

Selvatico. Avido. Fragile. Ossessionato dall'arte, nella quale convogliava tutta la sua straripante energia, Michelangelo fu segnato dal fuoco della genialità e attraversò la magnifica stagione del Rinascimento italiano. Con raro talento letterario, Forcellino fa rivivere l'uomo e i suoi anni. Antonio Forcellino è tra i maggiori studiosi europei di arte rinascimentale. Ha realizzato restauri di opere di valore assoluto, come il Mosè di Michelangelo e l'Arco di Traiano.

Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.

Am 28. Februar 1986 wird der schwedische Premierminister Olof Palme in Stockholm auf offener Straße erschossen. Der künftige Autor der "Millennium-Trilogie", Stieg Larsson, zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch Illustrator bei der antifaschistischen Zeitung Expo, beginnt intensive Recherchen zu dem Attentat aufzunehmen, das bis heute unaufgeklärt ist. Seine Ermittlungen setzt er über Jahre hinweg fort - bis zu seinem frühen Tod im Jahr 2004. Erst 2014 stößt der Journalist und Dokumentarfilmer Jan Stocklassa auf das persönliche Archiv von Larsson.

La beauté, le raffinement, l'élégance, la créativité... Les mondes du luxe et de la mode font bien souvent figure de machines à rêves. Mais chaque paradis a son envers et ces univers fascinants, outranciers, déroutants, possèdent leur face sombre. C'est ce revers de la médaille qu'explorent et racontent Astrid Faguer et Maud Gabrielson dans Meurtres haute couture.

Jean Renoir's career almost spans the history years of cinema - from the early silent movies, to the naturalism of the talkies, committed cinema, film noir, Hollywood studio productions, the Technicolor-period comedies and fast television techniques. His film The Grand Illusion remains one of the greatest movies about the effects of war.

Joining us in the studio to talk about his latest book, Rebel Ideas, is British table tennis Olympian, author, journalist and broadcaster Matthew Syed. Known for being the ping-pong guy from popular sports podcast Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy, Matthew Syed started his career as a table tennis player, competing in two Olympic games, and was ranked as a top player in England for 10 years. Since then, Matthew moved on to a career in journalism, writing a column in The Times and broadcasting on the BBC and Eurosport.

Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her.

“Io dico che bisogna essere veggente, farsi veggente. Il Poeta si fa veggente attraverso una lunga, immensa e ragionata sregolatezza di tutti i sensi.” Tra l’aprile e il maggio 1875 per alcune settimane Arthur Rimbaud, il grande autore di Vocali, Il Battello ebbro e Una stagione all’inferno, dall’esistenza scandalosa e ricca di colpi di scena, si ferma a Milano dove sembra essere ospitato nella casa di una misteriosa vedova, affacciata su piazza Duomo.

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.

Stephen King es el más importante creador de best-sellers de terror, misterio y ciencia-ficción de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Como consecuencia de todo ello, Stephen King ha conformado un imaginario extremadamente rico que fascina a sus muy numerosos seguidores. Tony Jiménez es uno de ellos, pero también uno de los principales estudiosos de la ingente obra de King y un erudito sobre su misteriosa figura.

La vita cambia in un istante. Passa dalla normalità alla catastrofe. John Gregory Dunne, sposato da quarant'anni con Joan Didion, muore all'improvviso la sera del 30 dicembre 2003. Ed è così che per Joan inizia l'anno del pensiero magico. Un anno in cui tutto viene rimesso in discussione, riconsiderato, riformulato.

Texto da peça teatral que estreou em março de 2015, acrescido de relatos e informações que não couberam na montagem, “Autobiografia Autorizada” é uma narrativa em primeira pessoa, em que o ator, diretor e produtor de cinema e televisão Paulo Betti recorda acontecimentos que marcaram sua infância e juventude em Sorocaba, no interior de São Paulo. Mais novo de quinze irmãos (dos quais oito morreram antes do parto), filho de mãe benzedeira, Paulo Betti reconstrói, por meio de histórias e personagens, o universo místico e culturalmente diversificado de sua “Macondo” particular.