Memoirs & Journals

The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, w...

David Bowie was an icon, not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same--the same as other trending artist...

"There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise."
–Hannah ArendtIn these interviews--inc...

Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "perhaps the single most influential work in the history of town planning," Jane Jacobs's The Death and...

Days before his death, Jorge Luis Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is ...

Kathy Acker was a punk-rock counter-cultural icon, and innovator of the literary underground. The interviews collected here span her amazing, uncom...

In this collection of powerful interviews given over thirty years--including his final interview--Lou Reed oscillates between losing patience with ...

Nearly sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an icon whom everyone loves but no one really knows. The conversations gathered here--sp...

Martin Luther King, Jr. had great success in helping to end segregation and the disenfranchisement of African-Americans. His famous 'I Have A Dream...

For fans of When Harry Met Sally and readers of I Feel Bad About My Neck (which is to say, almost everyone!) comes an indispensible collection of w...

Long before Ridley Scott transformed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick was banging away at his typewriter in r...

Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Mart...

With the release of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer "capable of befriending his rea...

The newest entry in the increasingly popular series collects fascinating and in-depth interviews with Bill Moyers, Nina Totenberg, and more, and co...

In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama call...