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New Nonfiction Releases September, 2023 |
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
by Gay Talese
The legendary writer and pioneer in New Journalism revisits his career profiling the many characters of New York City, including the story of an Upper East doctor who blew up his brownstone rather than give it up.
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
by John F. Szwed
This first ever biography of the artist, filmmaker and collector known for his influential Anthology of American Folk Music, examines his contributions to experimental film and music and his impact on American counterculture.
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Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson
From the author of Steve Jobs and other best-selling biographies comes an intimate story of a controversial businessman who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
by Tracy Daugherty
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter.
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Leslie F*cking Jones
by Leslie Jones
Introducing the woman behind the laughs, this audacious memoir reveals what it took for Leslie Jones to become one of America's most beloved and plain-speaking superstars, encouraging others to let go of the fear and self-doubt holding them back to live a bigger life than ever imagined.
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Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the 80s
by Gary Gulman
A work of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to 12th grade and beyond—from a stand-up comic and creator of The Great Depresh.
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Omega Farm
by Martha McPhee
A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist is a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother.
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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
by Bernie Taupin
In this much anticipated memoir, the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John—and half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music—shares, for the first time, his own account of their adventures, transporting readers across the decades and around the world.
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Talking to My Angels
by Melissa Etheridge
The Grammy and Oscar award-winning rock star and trailblazing LGBTQ+ icon shares how numerous, life-altering tragedies served as a catalyst for growth, and what the past two decades have taught her about the value of music, love, family and life in the face of death.
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Thicker Than Water: A Memoir
by Kerry Washington
In this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, the award-winning actor and activist provides an intimate view into both her public and private worlds as she chronicles her life's journey thus far, sharing how she discovered her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.
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Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
by Daniel Finkelstein
In this edge-of-your-seat story of narrow escapes, forged passports, ingenuity, bravery and luck, a beloved British journalist, drawing on personal testimony, letters, diaries and years of historical research, chronicles his family's World War II history of resistance that spans Europe and brings to life the near-miraculous stories of his parents' survival.
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Up Home: One Girl's Journey
by Ruth Simmons
Both an origin story set in the segregated South and an uplifting story of girlhood, the first Black president of an Ivy League University who has inspired generations of students as she herself made history depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality we still live with today.
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Wandering Through Life
by Donna Leon
After having recently celebrated her eightieth birthday, the internationally best-selling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries, confronting the dual challenges and pleasures of aging, tells her own adventurous life story, vividly describing her decades-long love affair with Italy and how its extraordinary beauty and magic still captivate her.
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The World According to Joan Didion
by Evelyn McDonnell
Inspired by Didion's own words and informed by those whose lives she shaped, an acclaimed journalist takes us on an illustrated journey through Didion's life, revealing the world as it was seen through the eyes of one of the most revered and influential writers.
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Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed Story of America
by Michael Harriot
The acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
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Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West
by Victor Sebestyen
A critically acclaimed historian presents a sweeping history of the capital of Hungary from the 5th century to the present with an account of the events that have defined its role on the fault line between Eastern and Western Europe.
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
by Heather Cox Richardson
A historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters from an American explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy—and how we can turn back.
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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
by Farah Karim-Cooper
Combining piercing analyses of race, gender and otherness in famous plays with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, a professor who has dedicated her career to the Bard sets out to unveil a Shakespeare for the 21st century, inviting new perspectives and interpretations to prolong and enrich his extraordinary legacy.
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How Not to Be a Politician
by Rory Stewart
From a great writer—legendary for his expeditions into some of the world's most forbidding places comes a sometimes-absurdist memoir of a most remarkable journey through British politics at the breaking point.
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
by Bill O'Reilly
Revisiting the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693, during which more than 200 people were accused, this dramatic history of the Puritan tradition and how the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the US depicts good, evil, community panic and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
by Philippe Sands
Interweaving his own journey into international law, a lawyer fighting for justice for the people of Chagos, who were deported from their island home by the British government, recounts this historic victory led by an extraordinary woman who dared to take on the Crown to return to the land of her birth.
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Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
by Sy Montgomery
A National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times best-seller turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants—turtles—and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on time and healing.
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To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Drawing on mythology, history and literature, a legendary astrophysicist and host of the award-winning StarTalk podcast takes us on entertaining journey to the farthest reaches of the cosmos where, along the way, science greets pop culture as he explains the triumphs—and bloopers—in Hollywood's blockbusters.
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When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season
by Rich Cohen
In this no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a New York Times best-selling author, drawing on interviews with NBA insiders. tells the story of this thrilling year through the four teams and the four players who dominated it—Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas and Michael Jordan.
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The Book of More Delights: Essays
by Ross Gay
In this new collection of genre-defying stories, again written over the course of a year, the New York Times best-selling author explores the meaning of “delight,” revealing how small, daily wonders connect us and give us meaning in these unsettling times.
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Dark Days: Fugitive Essays
by Roger Reeves
The first book of nonfiction from an award-winning poet combines memoir, theory and criticism to find common purpose between Black and indigenous peoples and reflects on the new meanings of silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom and ecstasy.
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Pig
by Sam Sax
This singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig—farm animal, men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerness, global food systems, religion/Judaism and law—to reimagine various chaotic histories of the body, faith, ecology, desire, hygiene, and power.
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Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
by Ntozake Shange
This posthumous collection of never-before-published poems, essays and plays—a love letter to black women and girls, and the community at large—by the award-winning American literary icon establishes her as one of the most highly celebrated artists of our time.
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