A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice: There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it.
 
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street,...

"In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land 250 Camera, Smith started posting selfies with her phone, portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, her daily coffee, the books...

Una mirada a la intimidad de su oficio como escritor: eso es lo que permiten los textos acá publicados, las respuestas que Gabo diera a sus lectores sobre diversos aspectos de su obra narrativa y periodística, que nos permiten asomarnos, como por el ojo de una cerradura, al estudio del premio nobel, al escritorio sobre el que reposa la máquina de escribir en la que "con dos dedos" dio vida no solo a sus entrañables personajes, tanto de las novelas...

Cleo Dunnit is a forensic psychiatric nurse in a maximum-security prison for males in New York State. The book is a combination of Cleo's own opinions and her perspective as a nurse. It reveals the criminal mind at work in all its manipulations, selfishness, and lack of remorse. It reveals how the manipulative behavior of the inmates is, condoned versus being, corrected. It reveals the bureaucratic incompetence of the state system.

Issues of the Heart is a collection of topics that we face through-out life. It is designed to present issue monthly and daily reflections related to the issue. This reflection journal act as a user guide to process where you are and ignite your desire to change to develop into the person you would like to become. Issues of the Heart is a collection of powerful reflection activities to guide you on your journey toward self-awareness.

« Le 2 septembre 1893, le paquebot La Champagne jetait l'ancre dans la baie de New York. » Ainsi commence le journal tenu par Amédée Girard, un émigré « ordinaire » et anonyme comme des millions d'autres exilés en Amérique à la fin du xixe siècle. De New York à Montréal, o il se fixe dès son arrivée, l'auteur note les observations et les impressions que lui inspire son nouveau lieu de vie. Villageois jurassien contraint à un voyage...

An American writer joins her husband, a contractor/consultant working in Iraq, to live in Amman, Jordan, and keeps a diary of day-to-day events. Out of this emerge so many stories of the pain and frustration of a forgotten world dating from a half-century earlier-the Palestinians who fled Israel in the '48 and '67 wars. In both cases - whether the Iraqi war or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - she finds herself squarely within the enemy camp and...

Antología de crónicas de Gaziel acerca de la ciudad de Barcelona, publicadas en La Vanguardia entre 1919 y 1933, las cuales el propio autor escogió para una futura publicación que permaneció inédita durante su vida. Una joya literaria, un viaje en el tiempo y una crónica de los cambios que situaron Barcelona en el mapa de las grandes metrópolis europeas.

This story describes a short period of my life when I left behind my husband and family to take up an assignment with the New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad. This organisation employed me to work in Zimbabwe from 2002 to 2004, a difficult time in that countrys history. For me, it was a life-changing experience that a decade later I feel compelled to share. I have used the diaries I kept during my time there and also drawings to convey the lasting...