Dorothy Parker's posthumously published collection is Poems; Camilla Barnes' debut novel is The Usual Desire to Kill. Both ...

Marianne Faithfull was a star in her own right; Peggy Caserta was a hippie tastemaker. Their memoirs are riveting.

In these books, characters’ inner lives are inseparable from their environments, and the changes they undergo are shaped by ...

Alvin Ridley kept 20,000 of his epileptic wife’s frantic writings, stacked to his ceilings in his cockroach ridden house ...