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What do readers say about M Train?
meandering, almost stream-of-consciousness paragraph by paragraph stream of consciousness a collection of storiesFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: a "sublime collection of true stories … and wild imaginings that take us to the very heart of who Patti Smith is" (Vanity Fair), told through the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the ... More details on M Train
The Café ’Ino is empty save for the Mexican cook and a kid named Zak who sets me up with my usual order of brown toast, a small dish of olive oil, and black coffee. I huddle in my corner, still wearin...
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What do readers say about Life?
wonderfully honest, sometimes funny very easy to read a must read vivid, entertaining and educationalThe long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones.
With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll lif... More details on Life
Why did we stop at the 4-Dice Restaurant in Fordyce, Arkansas, for lunch on Independence Day weekend? On any day? Despite everything I knew from ten years of driving through the Bible Belt. Tiny town ...
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What do readers say about I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp?
an insightful biography his life until the late 1970's smith’s emotion good book, but hard to readFrom an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell a... More details on I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
In 1956, when I was six and we lived on Rose Street by the university, my father bought a cream and green 1953 Kaiser, which he drove to work every morning a mile down a street that ran between the bi...
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What do readers say about Becoming?
clean and straightforward a good memoir honest and candid warm, honest and insightful#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving. It came in the form of bad music, or at least amateur music, coming up through the floorboards of my bedroom—the plink plink plink of s...
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What do readers say about Kitchen Confidential?
vivid and well crafted caustic, dry humor crass yet conversational frank, rough wordsWhen Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably ... More details on Kitchen Confidential
MY FIRST INDICATION THAT food was something other than a substance one stuffed in one’s face when hungry – like filling up at a gas station – came after fourth-grade elementary school. It was on a fam...
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What do readers say about Scar Tissue?
abuse and addictions tons of drugs use learning to love oneself nonfiction and fictionIn this "vivid and inspiring" NYT bestseller (Newsweek), the Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer and songwriter shares a searingly honest account of life in the rock scene's fast lane - from the darkness into the light.
In 1983, four self-described "k... More details on Scar Tissue
I’d been shooting coke for three days straight with my Mexican drug dealer, Mario, when I remembered the Arizona show. By then, my band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, had one album out, and we were about...
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What do readers say about The Liars' Club?
dark edgy style very well written a compelling memoir grim and dark#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation-now with a foreword by Lena Dunham in cel... More details on The Liars' Club
My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark. I was seven, and our family doctor knelt before me where I sat on a mattress on the bare floor. He wore a yellow golf shirt unbuttoned so ...
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What do readers say about Know My Name?
campus rape story an american masterpiece brilliantly and beautifully written luminous and crystallineUniversally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emi... More details on Know My Name
I AM SHY. In elementary school for a play about a safari, everyone else was an animal. I was grass. I’ve never asked a question in a large lecture hall. You can find me hidden in the corner of any exe...
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What do readers say about Autobiography of a Face?
witty and insightful terse and intense prose a child with cancer matter-of-fact, and often funnyA New York Times Notable Book
"This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable." -New York Times
"Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] ... More details on Autobiography of a Face
I was knocked into the present, the unmistakable now, by Joni Friedman's head as it collided with the right side of my jaw. Up until that moment my body had been running around within the confines of ...
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What do readers say about Utopia Avenue?
tedious and uninspired an episodic novel a first novel pure wish fulfillmentNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.
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"Mitchell's rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and t... More details on Utopia Avenue
Dean hurries past the Phoenix Theatre, dodges a blind man in dark glasses, steps onto Charing Cross Road to overtake a slow-moving woman and pram, leaps a grimy puddle and swerves into Denmark Street ...
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