Overview :Adam Weller is a moderately successful novelist, past his prime, but squiring around a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame... Read More
Overview :"Exquisitely crafted . . . Witty, nuanced and ultimately moving." --Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Sa... Read More
Overview :A biography of popular twentieth-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Internationally esteemed, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich... Read More
Overview :Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). It is September 1919 - a meeting hall in a small mid-Western city. A thin man is speaking to a sceptical audienc... Read More
Overview :Isaac and Nora haven't seen each other in five years, yet when Nora phones Isaac late one night, he knows who it is before she's spoken a wo... Read More
Overview :Miles Davis's recordings include several of the most acclaimed jazz albums, from the relaxed style of Birth of the Cool to the orchestral Sk... Read More
Overview :Leonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather ... Read More
Overview :A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelis... Read More
Overview :Dmitri Shostakovich wrote 15 symphonies, chamber music, ballets and operas, the latter including Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 1934, which was sup... Read More
Overview :Journalist Brian Wendell Morton has spent more than eight years documenting Washington, D.C.'s Oz-like world in weekly columns for Baltimore... Read More