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Kaffe Fassett has led an extraordinary life and is a captivating storyteller with a vivid memory. Born in 1937, he spent much of his youth in Big Sur, California, where his parents bought a cabin from Orson Welles and transformed it into the world-famous Nepenthe restaurant, a gathering place for artists and bohemians. After attending a boarding school run by the disciples of Krishnamurti, an Indian guru, he studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, then traveled to England, where he made his home.

In his memoir Waypoints, Heughan digs into his Scottish heritage by hiking the West Highland Way, and along the journey he recounts the life and career events that have shaped him and his personal values. We spoke to Sam Heughan about the joys and trials of West Highland Way, his journey towards processing the absence of his dad, and how the creation of his Outlander family came at just the point he needed in his career.

Scritta tra il 1943 e il 1944, durante la sua militanza nel Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, viene pubblicata nel 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa...

Bob Roth, meditation teacher and CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, joins us to discuss his latest audiobook, Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation. Roth’s audiobook examines what we might do to combat the growing stress epidemic which has gripped the world and why he believes that transcendental meditation is a key tool. In this interview we discuss what transcendental meditation is, how he first came across the technique and how the view of meditation has changed over the years.

When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, who originated the role on Broadway in 2007.

Isabel Allendes leidenschaftliche und inspirierende Betrachtung darüber, was es bedeutet, eine Frau zu sein. Was treibt die Seele einer Feministin - und jeder Frau - heutzutage an? "Ich übertreibe nicht, wenn ich sage, dass ich schon als Kind Feministin war." Als junges Mädchen ist Allende kämpferisch, fest entschlossen, ein anderes Leben zu führen als ihre Mutter - unabhängig und selbständig, nicht auf die Hilfe ihres Mannes angewiesen. Als junge Frau schließt sie sich einer Gruppe von gleichgesinnten Journalistinnen an und schreibt mit Leidenschaft über Frauenthemen.

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were...

Caroline Calloway is the viral storyteller who helped define the modern influencer era – an online legend whose life became one of the internet's most captivating sagas. Her voice isn't just distinctive – it is the culture she helped create. In Scammer: The Director's Cut, Caroline Calloway shares with you exactly how it is in her fabulously chaotic mind. 'The Director's Cut of the Scammer audiobook is an internet invention that's the first of its kind. And like all of my best breakthroughs it takes the existing framework of online culture we already know and love, and innovates.

Joining us at Audible Studios is Alex Bertie, YouTube vlogger of his transgender journey and author of Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard. When Alex was born, doctors took one look and put an 'F' for female on the birth certificate, based on genitals. When Alex was 15 he realised he was a transgender man, through many years of struggling with identity. After coming out to family and friends, Alex battled the health-care system in order to take male hormones, have surgery, change his name and grow a beard.

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had...

Mit ihrem beispiellosen Trauer-, Gedächtnis- und Liebesbuch nähert sie sich dem unmöglichen Wunsch, Paul zu neuem Leben zu erwecken. Und Paul selbst kommt zu Wort, mit Briefen, die er für den Monate vor seinem Tod geborenen Enkel Miles hinterlassen hat. In diesem großen Werk der Erinnerung werden Fragen aufgeworfen, die alle Menschen angehen; es lässt eine einzigartige Liebes- und Lebensgemeinschaft wiedererstehen, die des legendär gewordenen Autorenpaars aus Brooklyn.

Schon als Kind beschloss Helen Macdonald, Falknerin zu werden. Sie eignete sich das Fachvokabular an und las die Klassiker der Falknerei-Literatur. Ihr Vater unterstützte sie in dieser ungewöhnlichen Leidenschaft, er lehrte sie Geduld und Selbstvertrauen und blieb eine wichtige Bezugsperson in ihrem Leben. Als ihr Vater stirbt, setzt sich ein Gedanke in Helens Kopf fest: Sie muss ihren eigenen Habicht abrichten.

This definitive New York Times bestselling biography of Anna Wintour, now featuring a new afterword, follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would—with singular and legendary focus—become one of the most powerful people in media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no...

A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, and USA TODAY BESTSELLER This “intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was” (Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling author) reexamines her life and legacy as never before. Perfect for fans of My Travels...

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird...

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, 4 3 2 1, and The New York Trilogy, Winter Journal presents a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself. "That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as...

Als Paula Modersohn-Becker am 20. November 1907 starb, gab es nur zwei Menschen, welche wussten, dass in diesem Tod eine große Künstlerin hinweg genommen wurde. Die beiden waren ihr Ehemann, der Maler Otto Modersohn, und der Bildhauer Bernhard Hoetger. Für alle andern Personen und Kreise, eingeschlossen der Worpsweder Künstlerkreis, zu dem die Verstorbene äußerlich dazugehörte, war sie eine begabte Malerin neben anderen gewesen; für manche vielleicht auch nur ein irregeleitetes Talent.

Es gibt sie, diese Sekunden, die das ganze Leben verändern, die einem jede Gewissheit rauben. Und auf einmal ist die Gegenwart eine andere. Zehn Jahre lang lebt die Journalistin Gabriele von Arnim mit ihrem Mann in seiner Krankheit. Zwei Schlaganfälle haben ihn zerstört. Er kann nicht richtig sprechen, nicht gehen, nicht lesen, nicht schreiben - und ist doch hellwach im Kopf.

"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." —John le Carré From the Pulitzer...

Arno Geiger erzählt von seinem Vater, dem die Erinnerungen langsam abhanden kommen...