Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Arte y literatura

A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.

Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married, and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks after Molly’s death, Blake discovered shocking secrets she had held back from the world, fundamentally altering his view of their relationship and who she was.

Sterben – das tun doch immer die anderen. Die Alten vielleicht, die Kranken. Aber was, wenn der Tod näher ist als gedacht? Und unser Leben unwägbarer als wir annehmen? Seit zwei Jahren weiß Katja Lewina von ihrer Herzerkrankung und dass sie ihr jederzeit das Leben kosten kann. Die Diagnose bekam sie kurz nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihres siebenjährigen Sohnes. Mit einem Mal wurde die Möglichkeit zu sterben Teil ihres Alltags. In Was ist schon für immer beschäftigt sich Katja Lewina mit dem Thema Sterblichkeit und Verlust.

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.

Was passiert, wenn ein Komiker die Psychiatrie überlebt? "Hierzulande macht gerade der Comedian Oliver Polak ähnlich schamlose, kluge Witze wie Louis C.K.", schreibt Die Welt, "das macht zumindest Hoffnung für den deutschen Humor." Doch wie soll man als Stand-up-Comedian nicht wahnsinnig werden in einem Land, "in dem alle lustigen Leute bereits umgebracht wurden" (Robin Williams)? Nach seinem Bestseller und einer dreijährigen Tour erleidet Polak einen Totalzusammenbruch. Diagnose: schwere Depression. Einzige Rettung: zwei Monate Psychiatrie.

“A rare triumph” (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths taken by two brothers is a classic work from one of the greatest figures in American literature: a reflection on John Edgar Wideman’s family and his brother’s incarceration—a classic that is as relevant now as when originally published in 1984.

Les morts sont des invisibles, ils ne sont pas des absents. Dehors, il fait 5 °C, le temps est gris et venteux. Dans un instant, le prêtre va célébrer la messe d'enterrement de maman. Une coccinelle se pose sur ma main. D'où vient-elle, en ce mois de janvier ? Quelques semaines plus tard, une deuxième coccinelle surgira, et d'autres encore... J'aimerais imaginer que c'est maman qui se manifeste, et, pourtant, le doute m'assaille. La prudence voudrait que je n'y croie pas, mais, au fil du temps, de nouveaux signes – un papillon, une biche, une bague... – m'entraînent dans un monde parallèle.

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.

Os talentos que ele cultivou se tornaram conhecidos do mundo todo: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe e vários outros. No entanto, Maxwell Perkins permaneceu um mistério, uma presença nos bastidores que servia a esses autores não só como editor, mas também como crítico, administrador de suas carreiras, financiador, terapeuta, confessionário e amigo.

Aos 86 anos, Betty Halbreich é uma figura única no mundo da moda. Há quase quatro décadas comanda o departamento de compras personalizadas–ou personal shopping, como Betty prefere não chamar–da loja Bergdorf Goodman, ícone do consumo de luxo na Quinta Avenida. Meticulosa, impecável e deliciosamente engraçada, Betty é conhecida por não ter medo de abrir o jogo com as clientes.

In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her 50 years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory.

Em Frantumaglia, a própria Elena Ferrante explica sua escolha de permanecer afastada da mídia, permitindo que seus livros tenham vidas autônomas. Defende que é preciso se proteger não só da lógica do mercado, mas também da espetacularização do autor em prol da literatura, e assim partilha pensamentos e preocupações à medida que suas obras são adaptadas para o cinema e para a TV.

Un anti-manuel de réussite, pour arriver au sommet même en nageant à contre-courant. Le succès est propre à chacun et à la portée de tous. Moi, je me suis beaucoup plantée. Je me suis mariée, j'ai divorcé (deux fois), j'ai fait des bourdes en plein direct, je suis partie au bout du monde et, de coup de bol en coup de blues, j'ai fini par savoir qui j'étais. J'entends souvent dire que ça n'arrive qu'aux autres. J'en vois trop abandonner ou même ne pas essayer.

From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeley's newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.

Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined. Delmore Schwartz was only 24 in 1938 when his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, was published. He received praise from T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams.

One of America's best-known rock and entertainment journalists describes his journey from his childhood, cooped up in the "rice room" of his family's restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown, where he did chores, to the major role he played as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone. It is a story of teen worship of Elvis, but also of Chinese customs and the tragic murder of his brother, and of the '60s scene in San Francisco, where he found freedom - and his career.

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense.