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Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and music critic, rose...
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and music critic, rose...
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen During the Armenian genocide, 1.2 million Armenians were systematically murdered between 1915 and...
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant When the great story writer Mavis Gallant died, I thought of a story from her...
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Desperate Characters, recent edition. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also a...
How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography, by Hermione Gingold If you’re a fan of classic films, say, Vincente Minnelli’s...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us...
Current WTAW Press Titles WTAW Press has two great 2019 titles, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and Like...
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the sixth book and fifth novel by Andrew Sean Greer, is a jewel-box of...
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by Michael Chabon There are some...
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen If you're a fan of The Sympathizer, the debut novel by Viet Thanh...
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and a elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast’s...
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
The summer of 2020 is unlike those past—no traveling, no baseball games, limited beach and park time, if any, and...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, with a foreword by Salman Rushdie. Beowulf Sheehan, the literary world’s foremost photographer, has...
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre....
Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year's Eve ball in 1928, the German-born American...
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban With the Pentagon's recent release of three unclassified videos of...
WTAW Press 2019 Titles WTAW Press released two great titles in 2019, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and...
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is the how this small, but powerful...
As you read this you may, like me, be working from home, while your partner is doing the same, and...
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That ironic reflection comes early in...
The Vexations: a novel, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists must portray artmaking for what it is: work—anything else...
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson Emma Thompson's diary tracks the making of the award-winning Sense...
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Don’t be misled by the tabloid...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee “Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D'Ambrosio Charles D'Ambrosio's 2006 story collection, The Dead Fish Museum, is set in...
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff First published in 1989, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life has become a classic...
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray The early nineteenth century didn’t have reality television, but it did have William Makepeace...
As Car Trouble opens, it's one a.m., and the novel’s young protagonist, Nicky Flynn, is driving backwards through the streets...
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The eleven stories in Arranged Marriage reveal Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s gift for chronicling...
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward With this week's news that impeachment of the president looks to...
WTAW Press has just released its 2019 titles, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and Like Water and Other...
Barack Obama's Summer Reading List The #SummerReads of President Barack Obama are always an eclectic and smart collection of books...
The 400 Blows, by Francois Truffaut This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of Francois Truffaut’s The 400...
Last week, when the Emmy nominations were announced, the BBC Three series Fleabag received eleven nominations—for writing, acting, and direction,...
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories, by Michael Chabon Michael Chabon’s, Werewolves in Their Youth isn’t a horror or sci-fi, though Chabon...
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri "How do you clothe a book?" is the how this small, but powerful...
On Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller spoke publicly for the first time about the Russia investigation he began over two...
Car Trouble: A NovelRobert RorkeHarper PerennialPublication Date: September 11, 2018ISBN: 978-0062848499 As Car Trouble opens, it's one a.m., and the...
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt The reception Donna Tartt garnered for her third novel—her first in twelve years—was called a phenomenon...
The Boys of My Youth, by Jo Ann Beard When it was released in 1998, I somehow missed Jo Ann...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is," Alysia Abbot writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
My Misspent Youth, essays by Meghan Daum My introduction to Daum and her essays was Life Would Be Perfect If...
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan. By Beowulf Sheehan. Foreword by Salman Rushdie. If you need a gift for the...