Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America’s great cultural provocateur There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed...(展开全部)

“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)

“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。

The initial problem wasn't so much 'Who is Simon Warwick?' as 'Where is Simon Warwick?' When old Lord Charlton knew he was dying, he suddenly decided to alter his will and leave his vast fortune to a long-lost nephew. His family solicitor was instructed to trace the young man. Orphaned as a baby during the war, the boy had been adopted by an American officer and his English wif...(展开全部)

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)

[英]J. J. 斯卡里斯布里克，1928年生。英国历史学家，曾任英国华威大学教授，现为布里斯托大学荣誉教授、皇家历史学会会员。专攻英国都铎王朝史，著有《都铎王朝的法律与管治》等。

Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness, through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. Angel-like Blengins with butterfly wings, natural catastrophes, innocent girls, and murderous soldiers all appear in Darger's scenes, which are reproduced in this book in...(展开全部)

Nothing can stop John Henry--no boulder, no mountain, and definitely no steam drill. Newbery Honor winner Julius Lester writes with such power that this African-American folk hero becomes as awesome as a natural phenomenon. Jerry Pinkney received a Caldecott Honor for his exuberant, glowing watercolor paintings of the hero. The book, celebrating its tenth year in print, was als...(展开全部)