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The Making of a Writer, Volume 2
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 26.00?True, time is the villain and we are trapped in him. True, love is sometimes not returned. True, friends are sometimes false. But to be aware of this?all of it?and still want to go on living, that is the triumph. It is the reward.? As a young woman and aspiring author, Gail Godwin kept a detailed journal of her hopes and dreams,... more...
And You Know You Should Be Glad
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99A highly personal and moving true story of friend-ship and remembrance from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, population 13,000, Bob Greene and his four best friends -- Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack -- were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond... more...
The Wonderful Room
Wings Press 2010; US$ 9.95Following the life of journalist Bryan Woolley, this lively account paints a colorful and accurate picture of newspaper reporting on the Mexican border 50 years ago. From Woolley?s initiation at the El Paso Times to his smoking cigars with Andres Segovia and his pulling on the pant leg of Louie Armstrong to get an interview, this is the tale of... more...
Theories of Communication and Mass Media
Book Enclave 2007; US$ 45.00The media for mass communication better known as mass media include those of printed word and picture, where appeal to the sense of sight (newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, direct mail, etc.), radio, which is aimed at the sense of sound, television and motion pictures, which appeal both to the visual and auditory senses. Among the varied agencies... more...
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 17.00The National Book Award winner from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, A. Scott Berg. The talents he nurtured as an editor were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell Perkins remained a mystery, a backstage presence who served these authors not only as book editor extraordinaire... more...
Step Out on Nothing
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 14.99It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes . Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room.? Good luck, Brotha! You?ve come a long way to get here. You?ve earned it.? ?If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, ?I?m... more...
Mississippi Sissy
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 16.99Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its... more...
Means of Escape
Henry Holt and Co. 2009; US$ 16.99?A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously.?? Kirkus Reviews For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputo?s classic memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War , here is his powerful recounting of his life and adventures, updated with a foreword that assesses the state of the world and the journalist?s art. As a journalist, Caputo... more...
An Accidental Sportswriter
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99A longtime sports columnist for the New York Times interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we lead Growing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-aleck fat kid, the bully magnet who went to the library instead of the ballpark. As the perpetual outsider, even... more...
Black Code
McClelland & Stewart 2013; US$ 29.99Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are dangers looming, and malign forces are threatening to transform this extraordinary domain. In Black Code , Ronald J. Deibert, a leading expert on digital... more...









