Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America. Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey...

This 1878 volume in the English Men of Letters series explores the life of Edward Gibbon, author of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. According to a contemporary review by Mark Pattison in the Academy, "Future numbers of the series may imitate, they cannot surpass, the present specimen." A splendid perspective on the life of an intriguing man.

The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles acclaimed author of many books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them vividly excavates this...

The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve-miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family that kept the group together long after the men had ceased to be friends....

Known in Scotland as simply "The Bard," Robert Burns (1759—1796) endured a childhood of hardship and poverty to become a celebrated poet who is today widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. J. C. Shairp's biography of Burns is an insightful look at the life of this pioneer of the Romantic Movement.

"My Journey from Slate to iPhone" is an unforgettable memoir that is masterfully written as a soliloquy. The book shares the author's life and the knowledge she acquired from reading and observing others. Throughout the course of the book, readers will come across the inspiring lessons that the author learned from reading other books and discourses. Also included are some of the poems that reflects her daily life, thoughts, and events. Readers also...

Thomas A. Underwood, a native of Texas, teaches at Harvard University. A frequent lecturer on Southern history and literature, he has also taught at Columbia, Boston, and Yale universities. Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be...

Nada podía hacer prever a Danae, estudiante de primer curso de Filosofía, que su vida iba a dar un giro inesperado con la visita de un viejo amigo de su difunto padre. Un secreto oculto durante años removerá su pasado y embarcará a la protagonista hacia la emblemática Universidad La luz de Saint Etiel. ¿Qué hechos velados se esconden tras los muros de La luz? ¿Será capaz Danae de armar el rompecabezas y enfrentarse a su pasado? ¿En quién...

Este escritor, nacido en Támesis Antioquia, hizo de la escritura su vida y su mayor pasión, sin que le importara nada más. Ganador del premio de novela Vivencias, en 1979, con su obra: Cuando pase el ánima sola, escribió relatos, cuentos, crónicas y novelas, y ejerció la docencia por muchos años. Murió en el 2007 en Medellín. De su vasta obra, publicada por la editorial EAFIT, destacamos hoy, Toda esa gente y el Diario de un escritor. A...

For more than a decade, the Globe and Mail has featured comprehensive obituaries of notable British Columbians by columnist Tom Hawthorn. He recounts the lives of the recently departed in an engaging style, finding anecdotes to illuminate personality, giving voice to those who no longer have one. These stories are not about death, but about life in all its sad, funny, exhilarating complexity. Gathered here are the best, the funniest, the most memorable...