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All'improvviso, un vecchio baule: bell'inizio, per la storia di un attore. E in effetti il "tesoretto" di lettere e diari di sua madre Gigliola e di sua nonna Titina, ritrovato in una soffitta, si trasforma per Massimo Lopez in un vero e proprio viaggio, non solo nella memoria. Decide infatti di ricostruire tappa per tappa il passato della sua famiglia vagabonda, che girava di città in città seguendo il lavoro del padre. Cosa è rimasto delle case che ricorda?

Cidade grande no escuro, de Clara Averbuck, confirma o talento de uma das vozes mais originais e criativas de sua geração. As crônicas de Clara já conquistaram uma legião de leitores pela internet, e ficam ainda mais saborosas juntas, reunidas em livro. Seu olhar aguçado nos traz uma...

كل كتابٍ من كتب توفيق الحكيم يستحق وقفةَ تأمل، إلا أن كتابه 'زهرة العمر' حكايةٌ أخرى. يضم الكتاب رسائل حقيقية كما وصفها الحكيم، بمعنى أنه لم يكتبها من باب الكتابة...

'أمتع الكتابات هي تلك التي تكتبها باسم مستعار، ولكلٍّ منا أسبابه... هنا فقط تكمن الحرية، وهذا ما كان عندما اكتشفتُ لذة التدوين، كان لي ما أردت فولدت «رات»، اسم...

لقد حصدت هذه الرواية خمس جوائز خلال عام ونصف بعد نشرها. وجاء عنوانها من مسرحية ريتشارد الثالث لشكسبير تدور أحداث هذه الرواية في مدريد، حيث يتعرف فيكتور على...

A new edition of the letters of the most remarkable of the Mitford sisters--timed to a new streaming series about the ever-fascinating family and a new biography of Jessica coming in 2025. Born into the British aristocracy as one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) larger-than-life Mitford...

Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of...

受けいれがたい別れがやってきても、人生は続く。喪失を抱えて生きるすべての人へ——。 大切な存在を喪ったとき、人はどのように生きていけばいいのか。『猫と生きる。』『イオビエ』の著者・猫沢エミと、『妻が余命宣告されたとき、僕は保護犬を飼うことにした』の著者・小林孝延が、パリと東京を結び、喪失と再生について言葉を交わす往復書簡。

Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell reveals, that's really only half the story. Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we'll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good.

In diesem Brief an Otto August Rühle von Lilienstern rät Heinrich von Kleist ihm, Probleme, denen er durch Meditation nicht beikommen kann, zu lösen, indem er mit anderen darüber spricht. Dabei ist nicht wichtig, dass dem Gegenüber die Materie bekannt ist, sondern der ausschlaggebende Punkt ist das eigene Reden über den Sachverhalt. Mit dieser Methode könne man sich selbst am besten belehren: „Die Idee kommt beim Sprechen“. Kleist selbst habe diese Idee gehabt, als er beim Brüten über eine algebraische Aufgabe nicht weiter kam, aber im Gespräch mit seiner Schwester darüber eine Lösung fand.

"Berlant adds that extra pizazz, so you really get a window into the creative mind as it shifts quickly from moments of despair to lightbulbs of insight to incidents of sexual desire to the recollection of totally random literary facts."—Vulture on Alphabetical Diaries "Heti's candid...

This program is read by the author. The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman). A singular...

"With deep appreciation for Camondo's generosity and taste, de Waal takes listeners on a journey they won't forget." -- AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo Letters to...

This program is read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, and Neela Vaswani. The Flame is the final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before...

Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. Herein, the...

The funny, sad and compelling diary kept by an overweight teenage girl that became the basis for the British television sensation of the same name available to stream on HULU. It's 1989 and Rae Earl is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf...

Remember the wonderfully romantic book of love letters that Carrie reads aloud to Big in the recent blockbuster film, Sex and the City? Fans raced to buy copies of their own, only to find out that the beautiful book didn't actually exist. However, since all of the letters referenced in the film...

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by...

Letters from a Stoic is one of the essential works of Roman Stoic philosophy, offering a series of moral reflections on virtue, discipline, friendship, time, grief, mortality, wealth, simplicity, and the art of living well. Written as letters addressed to Lucilius, these meditations combine practical advice with deep philosophical insight, showing how reason, self-command, and inner freedom can help a person face uncertainty, loss, desire, and fear.

Una ricercatrice, ossessionata dalla paura di impazzire, intraprende un’indagine per rompere il silenzio che avvolge la storia della sua bisnonna Elisabeth, detta Betsy — una donna dichiarata schizofrenica e sottoposta a lobotomia negli anni ’50, una delle prime in Francia. Di lei nessuno parla: i figli hanno sempre taciuto, i nipoti ignorano quasi tutto di lei. Attraverso lettere, archivi ospedalieri e interviste ai discendenti, Adèle Yon ricompone l’esistenza di una donna brillante e ribelle, troppo viva per il suo tempo.