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The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature
Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm.
A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes...
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An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris
In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between...
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Born to illiterate parents in a deprived area of Glasgow ensured Joe Armstrong would be stigmatisedfrom day one. His father was an indolent, gambling, alcoholic and his Mother ;a hard nosed, illiterateworkaholic. With no one to turn to in times of need; Joe was left to his own devices; to do whateverhe had to do to survive.Despite the trauma and shame associated with abject poverty and perceived ignorance, Joe wasforced to survive in a world where...