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The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote...

'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN 'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES 'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEW When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late '70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before...

Brought to you by Penguin. What are the forces that shape us? Hilton Als’s brilliant, now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America In The Women, Hilton Als explores—with breath taking originality—the role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With...

The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and style For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after...

Hilton Als was raised in a corner of Brooklyn marked by riots, racial segregation and sexual prejudice. As a teenager, he began to glimpse other ways of living through school, through art, and in the black men and white men he saw making lives together. Later, in a Manhattan alive with hip hop...

Part autobiography, part reportage, part cultural criticism, a fierce and memorable new book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. The letter was written in his strong hand and to quote it from memory is to blush with all the possibility his letter contained, and how much do I miss all that...