Ingenious short fiction from the author of the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese

An African American woman’s unblinking look at her troubled years as an unwanted child in foster care

This collection allows the reader to trace the roots—both literary and autobiographical—of one of America’s most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful writers.

Collected interviews with the master cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon

A sports insider cries foul at America’s obsession with big-time athletics

In-depth profiles, spirited Q & A’s, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work

The first-ever collection of interviews with this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years

Collected talks with the American statesman who delineated the West’s Cold War policy of Soviet containment

Sweeping photographs portraying the rebirth and rise of modern Memphis, Tennessee

The best interviews and profiles of America’s most prominent African American filmmaker

Lush photographs of and informative text about the primeval Okefenokee wetlands area in the American southeast

A new edition of a classic book about the environmental triumph that saved a southeast Mississippi wetland

A handsome and informative book featuring Welty among her peers in painting, photography, and other arts during the 1930s

A disclosure of the deaths of jazz artists and their often fatal lifestyles

Collected interviews that show how the mind of an enormously talented and multifaceted artist works while conveying a sense of the generosity and optimism that keep him experimenting and learning

A photographic record of a black regiment’s contribution to safeguarding Alaska from Japanese invasion

Thirty-six years of interviews with the “Mother of Modern Feminism.”

Accounts that bear witness to the unutterable horrors German children endured during World War II