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Explore the heritage foods that give the United States its culinary identity, in this visual encyclopedia for curious eaters and gardeners.The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of our nation's food heritage preserving treasures passed down for generations-some rare, some endangered, all delicious.Created by Slow Food USA, the Ark shines light on history, identity, and taste through these unique food products, featuring recipes and the stories o...

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Joy would certainly be the first to admit that she is not a prolific writer, but a physician and surgeon by training. Her husband, Dr. David Miller, Christian Psychologist, encouraged her to write her life's story believing that her sharing what God helped her overcome, could help others. Joy agreed to write some excerpts of her life. This book is a personal testimony of God's sustaining grace during and through severe physical disabilities, e...

In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger, David Shields has composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years.David Shields decided to gather every interview he's ever given, going back nearly 40 years. If it was radio or TV or podcast, he transcribed it. He wasn't sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn't inter...

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection that combines images of type from the collection with a history of the origin of nineteenth-century wood type designs.

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David Shields's The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American culture, and an attempt to understand marriage (one marriage, the idea of marriage, all marriages), The Trouble with Men is exquisitely balanced betw...

When Heroes was first published 33 years ago, the Los Angeles Reader called it "almost a parody of the modern American novel." And it is indeed exactly the kind of conventional, linear, realistic, old-fashioned novel that David Shields came to disavow and argue against. But Marrow Books is proud to bring Heroes back into print, because (like so much of Shields' work, from Remote to Black Planet to Reality Hunger to War Is Beautiful) it has pro...

Other People is something of a revelation: seventy-plus essays that form neither a miscellany nor a memoir but an intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness. Can one person know another person? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, what function does art serve? Whether he is writing about sexual desire or information sickness, George W. Bush or Kurt Cobain...

A biographical reference book about two hundred of the most influential cooks and restaurateurs from 1790 to 1919"--Publisher.

A history of still camera work generated by the American silent motion picture industry that chronicles the evolution of silent film aesthetics, glamour, and publicity. Exploring the work of over sixty camera artists, it recovers the stories of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the stars who sat for them between 1908 and 1928.

In his most wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, and painfully funny book, acclaimed writer Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature and blends confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography.

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In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various 'texts'--conversations, letters, newspapers, and privately circulated manuscripts--David Shields reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.

Sohn polnisch-jüdisch-irischer Eltern, Soldat im 2. Weltkrieg, gefeierter Autor, besessen schreibender Eremit - wer war J. D. Salinger? Warum flüchtete er aus der Öffentlichkeit und publizierte ab 1965 kein Wort mehr? David Shields und Shane Salerno haben in einer neunjährigen Recherche über 200 Zeitzeugen, Freunde, Kameraden aus dem Krieg und heimliche Geliebte Salingers befragt und unbekannte Fotos, Tagebucheinträge sowie verschollene Briefe...

An oral biography of reclusive author J. D. Salinger.

Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, he wants "literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this-which is what makes it essential." This is a captivating, thought-provoking...