by envisionmg | Jan 2, 2013 | Biography, Non-fiction, Staff Review
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.” No author could make...
by Peabody Institute Library | May 28, 2011 | Biography, Non-fiction
Publisher’s Summary: “The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Star Trek. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: actor,...
by Peabody Institute Library | Mar 23, 2011 | Biography
“Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, a two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood beauty whose screen success was sometimes overshadowed by her tumultuous personal life, died on Wednesday at age 79.” [via Los Angeles Times] The library owns several biographies on...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jan 18, 2011 | Biography, Non-fiction
Rick Springfield’s recently released memoir is not for the faint of heart – or at least those clinging to the lily white image of Dr. Noah Drake. While he managed to avoid the plague of drugs and alcohol, the rocker was admittedly a BAD boy for a LONG...
by Peabody Institute Library | Sep 9, 2010 | Biography, Books to Movies
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-CEDsZstdI] J.R. Ackerly’s Memoir My Dog Tulip has just been re-released in anticipation of the new animated film based on the book. The distinguished British man of letters, Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog...
by maturid | Aug 7, 2010 | Biography, Non-fiction
Ah, the pleasures of doing the “hard work” in reading. Let David Lipsky guide you on an amazing, intimate and poignant journey with the late writer, David Foster Wallace. Lipsky has transcribed the tapes of a week-long “interview” with DFW...
