“In twenty years I went from a complete unknown, to a comer, to being hailed as the most powerful man in Hollywood. After a few years of that, I became the most feared man in town. And once I left CAA, when it was safe for everyone to vent, I became the most hated.” Who is Michael Ovitz? He’s a striver who talked his way into the famous mailroom of the William Morris Agency wit...(展开全部)

It is what it is (or...Are we done yet?) What’s your deliverable? It’s a common question, as crass as it is self-evident. We deliver Design…24/7. But it’s a strange word – deliverable – with so many embedded assumptions. Someone else demands, requires, needs, wants, and ultimately pays (or doesn’t), but we always deliver. The verb makes sense, it’s the noun that’s the problem: ...(展开全部)

『as it is』は、川内倫子が自身の出産から約3年間、子育ての中で出会った子どもの姿や身近な風景を撮りためて構成した新作写真集。 川内の初作品集『うたたね』（2001年）は自身の身の回りのものをテーマに制作した作品で、そこから近作の『Halo』（2017年）では、外の世界へとまなざしを向け、遠い宇宙を感じさせるイメージを切り開いてきた。 本書は『うたたね』から20年という歳月がたった今、もう一度、自身の子どもや家族とともに、目の前の日常風景を見つめ直し、原点に立ち返ってつくられた作品集である。 また、本作では、川内が一人の母親として感じてきたことが短いテキストで挟み込まれ、現在進行形で綴る家族の物語でありながら、子どもという生命力溢れる存在の普遍性にも迫っている。 四季の移り変わりを通じて出会う自然と光の美しさ、暮らしの中で見つける小さな生き物た...(展开全部)

“Stylish and sharp, with wicked hairpin turns, Who Is Maud Dixon? is part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun.” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette?) Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job as writer’s assistant to Maud Dixon, a world-famous, enigmatic...(展开全部)

亚莉珊卓·安德鲁斯曾在纽约和巴黎担任记者、编辑和文案。她文笔明快洗练，文章情节曲折离奇，《消失的悬疑小说家》是其第一本小说。

亚莉珊卓·安德鲁斯曾在纽约和巴黎担任记者、编辑和文案。她文笔明快洗练，文章情节曲折离奇，《消失的悬疑小说家》是其第一本小说。

Who is the world for? asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question. In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, The wor...(展开全部)

Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano’s adult debut Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a witty, fast-paced mystery series, following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations...

This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change…and then change the world. This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being ...(展开全部)