Títulos em Memórias, Diários e Correspondência

Publicado em 1963, Da próxima vez, o fogo se tornou um clássico incontornável no debate sobre os direitos civis nos Estados Unidos. Não acredite na palavra de ninguém, inclusive na minha, mas confie em sua experiência. Saiba de onde você veio. Se você sabe de onde veio, não há limite para onde poderá ir", escreve James Baldwin para seu sobrinho, também chamado James, um adolescente prestes a completar quinze anos.

O primeiro lançamento dos diários de Carolina Maria de Jesus registra os meses em que a escritora morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960. Edição ampliada e integral, com conteúdo inédito e introdução de Conceição Evaristo e Vera Eunice de Jesus. Com narração de Zezé Motta. Com edição integral, ampliada com conteúdo inédito e refeita a partir dos manuscritos originais da autora, este primeiro volume de Casa de alvenaria abarca os meses em que Carolina Maria de Jesus morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960, após deixar a favela do Canindé.

Aclamado por escritores como Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Guimarães Rosa, Minha vida de menina é o diário de uma garota de província do final do século XIX. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1942, antecipa a voga das histórias do cotidiano e dos relatos confessionais de adolescentes ao traçar um retrato vivo e bem-humorado da vida em Diamantina entre 1893 e 1895.

Se em Depois é nunca explicou que o luto não é uma doença e que dura a vida inteira, Carpinejar consegue o impossível: ir ainda mais além na tentativa de retratar o sofrimento da saudade. Agora fala diretamente com o enlutado. Cada capítulo é uma carta, e cada carta, uma lição de empatia.

Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century. Faithfully transcribed from the 23 journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.

For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood and the question of legacy, or, as she put it, 'what it’s been worth.'

Obra mais conhecida da escritora mineira Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de despejo reúne entradas dos diários que a autora manteve enquanto vivia na favela do Canindé, em São Paulo. Publicado em 1960, o livro narra o cotidiano de Carolina, a criação de seus filhos, seu trabalho como catadora de papel e escritora, suas preocupações literárias, afetos e a vida com outros moradores do Canindé. Quarto de despejo serve como porta de entrada para a escrita de uma autora fundamental, traduzida para inúmeros idiomas, que arrebata leitores de todo o mundo por sua precisão e força literária.

Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie. A lively exploration of human-animal relationships and disability as disruption, disturbance, and art, the book offers a refreshing re-evaluation of cultural misunderstandings of disability.

Love Letters of Great Men follows hot on the heels of the film and collects together some of history's most romantic letters from the private papers of Beethoven, Mark Twain, Mozart, and Lord Byron. For some of these great men, love is "a delicious poison" (William Congreve); for others, "a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music" (Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one's heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert).

As correspondências de Graciliano Ramos aqui reunidas apresentam uma perspectiva íntima de sua vida e obra.

Geulwoll is a Korean word for ‘letter’. It is also the name of a small, unassuming letter shop, located on the third floor of a shabby building in the bustling heart of Seoul. People visit from all over to write and send letters to loved ones – and to strangers. This book is not about rules or right answers for writing letters. It is about embracing the power of what happens when you choose to carve out the time to write them.

Within Her Thoughts is a raw collection of K. Vincent’s deepest, darkest, and heartfelt thoughts and feelings. She uses symbolism to help portray everything that is trapped inside of her. K. Vincent hopes that with this collection, that they can touch others all around the world and know that they aren’t alone. She hopes that Within Her Thoughts can encourage others who are going through difficult times, to find courage and the will power to continue to move forward and to find an outlet like she has through her writings.

Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon is a fascinating glimpse of the private Bruce Lee behind the public image—a man with the patience and concern to dedicate as much effort to crafting a thoughtful personal answer to the letter of a young fan as to those from his old friends and associates; an extremely active man never too busy to make time for an old family friend in need of simple companionship; a man who never wrote without careful thought, and never thought from the head alone, but always from the head and heart together.

Glimmerings brings the high-voltage tensions of faith as felt by many into the realm of relationship, where our hope might be bolstered in community with kindred minds. This vivid interpersonal offering brings together one of the world’s leading Christian theologians, Miroslav Volf, with one of the most celebrated voices in modern American poetry, Christian Wiman, in this private-now-public exchange of letters on these very pressing tensions of our time.

This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing. In this generous selection of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters to her biographer and friend Greg Johnson, listeners will discover a never-before-seen dimension of her phenomenal talent.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK O confesiune magistrală aflată la granița dintre intimitatea unui jurnal și densitatea unei autobiografii, Crezul lui Fuentes ne poartă pe urmele artei și istoriei până la cele mai importante evenimente care i-au conturat lumea și pasiunile. O carte multifațetată, în care autorul mexican construiește o hartă trasată din gânduri și amintiri, alternând teme precum iubirea și prietenia cu pasaje despre Buñuel, Faulkner și Wittgenstein.

What began as a singular letter in response to a younger family member standing on the precipice of her 60th birthday and asking the age-old question, 'What’s it like to be old?,' soon turned into one full year of unsent reflections, wonderment and curiosity of a life truly lived. Out of these reflections, New York Times-bestselling author Sophy Burnham developed this short, storytelling collection of unsent letters that offer listeners of all ages hope and happiness, and new ways to perceive our later years.

From her mooring in Macclesfield in the north-west of England to the storied Bristol Channel, Jo invites listeners to join her on a 30-day odyssey, beginning with the end of a tempestuous relationship and echoing a journey previously taken by LTC Rolt, a legendary engineer and advocate of the waterways.

Ruskin Bond is most at home in his cosy room in Landour, a room with a window—from which he looks out on the world. A room where he writes his daily journal. In these leaves from his journal, written over the past two years, Ruskin describes his days in his unique way: from the joy of seeing a new flower bloom to the pain of a toothache that just can't be ignored. Outside, the seasons change. In his room, for Ruskin, every morning brings new thoughts, new observations.

After Lucille Ball’s death in 1989, dozens of private letters between Lucy and Desi Arnaz were discovered. Now, for the first time, daughter Lucie Arnaz shares the complete collection in this remarkable volume that reveals the romance of one of the most famous couples in history more intimately than anything that has ever been written about them. At turns the letters disclose longing, ambition, jealousy, humor, and, above all, a passionate love affair that has claimed the world’s interest for more than half a century.