Títulos en Periodistas, redactores y editores

Part memoir and part spirit guide, Wild Words is a book about the intersection of our creative soul with everything else, and how to make peace, make priorities, and ultimately, make progress by slowing down and embracing whatever season we’re in, right now.  

Catherine et Jean-Pierre ont vécu au cœur de la Soule, l'une des sept provinces du Pays Basque (trois en France, quatre en Espagne), dans un village baptisé Viodos, à côté de la ville de Mauléon, 5000 habitants, connue depuis longtemps pour sa production de sandales, et fameuse naguère pour son équipe de rugby, opiniâtre et courageuse. Ils ne sont jamais sortis de ce petit territoire et il me semble qu'ils y ont été heureux. En tout cas, à leur façon, ils ont été tous les deux de formidables soldats de Mai 68. Catherine était ma maman. Jean-Pierre était mon papa.

Natalia Aspesi e Simonetta Fiori raccontano la vita nascosta di Inge Feltrinelli, una delle figure centrali della cultura e dell'editoria italiane della seconda metà del Novecento. Una donna amante del mondo ma in cerca della sua solitudine.

Agatha Christie è, ancora oggi, la scrittrice di gialli più letta al mondo. Donna appassionata, piena di talento e carattere, la Christie ha vissuto una vita tutt'altro che monotona: un'educazione fuori dagli schemi, due matrimoni, molti viaggi e un successo conclamato grazie all'invenzione di due personaggi memorabili, il detective Hercule Poirot e l'ingegnosa Miss Marple. Il suo enorme talento come scrittrice la portò non solo a essere un'autrice di gialli eccezionale, ma anche un'ottima sceneggiatrice di teatro.

Avec une plume aussi bien trempée que son caractère, Nathalie Petrowski a toujours été un esprit libre. Dans La critique n'a jamais tué personne, elle nous livre, sans faux-fuyants et sans règlements de compte, ses mémoires de journaliste. Ceux d'une femme qui, du p'tit Simard à Marie-Mai, de René Lévesque à Manon Massé, du sexisme ordinaire à #metoo et du Jerrold au iPad, jette un regard passionné et critique sur la culture, le journalisme et ses enjeux.

From the cow fields of Connecticut to the streets of San Francisco, Joe Clifford's Junkie Love traverses the lost highways of America, down the rocky roads of mental illness to the dead ends of addiction. Based on Clifford's own harrowing experience with drugs as a rock 'n' roll wannabe in the 1990s, the audiobook draws on the best of Kerouac and the Beats, injecting a heavy dose of pulp fiction as it threads a rollicking narrative through a doomed love triangle, lit up by the many strange characters he meets along the way.

Una figura intelectual que alcanzó gran prestigio en Perú y Latinoamérica a comienzos del siglo XX. De corazón socialista, autodidacta neto, periodista de corazón, su obra más conocida (7 ensayos de Interpretación de la Realidad Peruana) marcó una nueva era en el pensamiento americano marxista de izquierda.

"Ho sempre creduto che la vita fosse disporre sul tavolo, nel miglior modo possibile, le carte che ti sei trovato in mano. Invece all'improvviso ne arriva una che spariglia tutte le altre, e la vita è proprio come ti giochi quell'ultima carta. Per ciascuno di noi l'esistenza è costellata di eventi che in prima battuta sono sembrati inaffrontabili, e invece poi hanno portato a una rinascita, a un nuovo equilibrio. Penso che ci sia un ordine più saggio che governa il mondo e di cui spesso ignoriamo il senso, la prospettiva. 

Le molte pieghe dell'attualità si possono costruire come un Origami di carta, ma anche ascoltare. Appuntamento col settimanale della Stampa, come se fosse una voce.

Migrare significa volare via e scegliere, come fanno gli uccelli, un posto migliore, o che pensiamo tale. Francesca Paci, in ogni puntata, racconterà una storia di spostamento, di cambiamento di posizione, la storia di chi sceglie un altro luogo fisico, ma anche mentale. Buon viaggio.

What are you going to do for the rest of your life? For David Lawrence, Jr., a brilliant newspaper editor and publisher with a distinguished, three-decade-long journalism career who retired in 1999 at the age of 56, the answer in his words was to dedicate his life to a "[N]ewly energized purposefulness: that every child have a real chance to succeed." 

Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son, D.J., says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone - gay or straight, right or left, single or married - howling with laughter.

Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of the book is Mencken.

From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, and brilliant writers and editors. He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine.

"Chi fa di se stesso una bestia si sbarazza della pena di essere un uomo." (Dr. Johnson) L'inventore del Gonzo Journalism - un particolare stile di scrittura che esclude l'oggettività dagli articoli in nome della soggettività dell'autore - è un esempio difficile da seguire.

Driven by his single mother's dreams for his survival and success, Kevin Powell became the first in his family to attend a university, where he became a student leader keenly aware of widespread social injustice. But the struggle to define himself and break out of poverty continued into adulthood, with traumatic periods of homelessness and despair. As a young star journalist with Vibe magazine, Powell interviewed luminaries such as Tupac Shakur, writing influential chronicles of the evolution of hip-hop from his eyewitness view.

On the Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's 10 years in Vietnam - beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in 1975 when he was literally thrown on one of the last flights out. His memoir has all the exciting tales of peril, hardship, and close calls as the best of battle memoirs but it is primarily a story of very real and yet remarkable people: the soldiers, the reporters, and the photographers.

After that summer in Kabul province, the young freelancer became a staff reporter for The Times of London, covering conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Gulf, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Balkans, but Afghanistan never let him go. Death of a Translator is a searingly honest description of a mind haunted and eventually paralysed by the terror of post-traumatic stress disorder.

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981) - author of the 1958 national best seller Only in America - illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.

In 1976, following years of harsh cutbacks to salaries and benefits at the New Yorker, editorial workers - the fact-checkers, copy editors, and other paraliteraries - finally took a stand and began a drive to unionize the storied magazine. But strong-willed longtime editor William Shawn's fierce resistance to unionization kicked off a stalemate between management and their subordinates.