玛丽莲·梦露 Marilyn Monroe，1926—1962 1926年生于洛杉矶，在多个寄养家庭和孤儿院里度过童年。1940年代成为海报模特并进入电影行业，出演过《夜阑人未静》《豆蔻年华》《乱点鸳鸯谱》《绅士爱美人》等影片。她创造的金发女郎形象成为20世纪最广为人知和经久不衰的银幕形象。梦露曾获金球奖在内的诸多荣誉，却在年仅36岁时因过量服用药物离世。 【译者】李文心：本科毕业于同济大学英美文学专业，硕士毕业于英国帝国理工学院商学院。独立戏剧制作人，自由译者。

The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and she quickly became the write...(展开全部)

The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and she quickly became the write...(展开全部)

“There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.”
—Hannah Arendt In these interviews—including her final interview given in October 1973, in the midst of Watergate and the Yom Kippur War—Hannah Arendt discusses politics, war, protest movements, the Eichmann trial, Jewish identity, and language with the incisiveness and ...(展开全部)

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Bald...(展开全部)

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style. The volume includes among others interviews with Laura Miller, Dave Eggers,...(展开全部)

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanning a remarkable fort...(展开全部)

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanning a remarkable fort...(展开全部)

唐纳德·斯波托已出版有十一部作品，其中包括劳伦斯·奥利弗、阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克、田纳西·威廉斯和玛琳·黛德丽的国际畅销传记。他获得了福特汉姆大学的博士学位，长期以来一直在世界各地从事教学工作，现今在纽约和欧洲两地居住。 译者简介： 徐海幈，兰州大学新闻学专业硕士学位，先后在《中国新闻周刊》、《三联生活周刊》、《时代人物周报》等杂志工作，在瑞典的隆德大学获得影视制作和亚洲研究（印度方向）两个专业的硕士学位。从2011年开始，以自由译者的身份开始从事图书翻译工作，迄今为止翻译了《丘吉尔传》（罗伊•詹金斯）、《叶卡捷琳娜大帝：通往权力之路》（罗伯特·K.迈锡）等五十余种图书。

Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere, she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters, from a lonesome priest to battling br...(展开全部)