by George Plimpton

George Plimpton is embarrassed. The noted amateur of odd sporting experience has lost one horseshoe match to George Bush, a match that was as much a test of wills as...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 1990

by Diana Vreeland

As fashion editor of 'Harper's Bazaar' and editor-in-chief of 'Vogue,' Diana Vreeland-and her passion, charm, insouciance, and genius for style--energized and inspired the fashion world for fifty years. In this...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2003

by Paris Review

An exciting new anthology from the journal 'Time 'magazine called 'the biggest 'little magazine' in history.' To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the venerable' Paris Review,' Picador is proud to...Read More

Publication Date: May 2003

by Paris Review

For a half-century, 'The Paris Review' has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. To commemorate the anniversary, a breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology has been assembled....Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2004

by Paris Review

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg; On the Road, Naked Lunch, Howl: The names and titles continue to reverberate as the Beats remain a vital source of inspiration to successive generations of readers...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 1999

by George Plimpton

He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the glamorous worlds of the arts, politics and society, a...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 1998

by Gillian Zoe Segal

Every year millions of people flock to New York City, drawn to its unparalleled theaters, museums, restaurants, and sights. While much has been written about these topics, one of the...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2001

by Paris Review

The third installment in the Modern Library's Paris Review "Writers at Work" series, this is an all-new gathering of interviews with the most important and compelling playwrights of our time....Read More

Publication Date: May 2000

by Paris Review

The fourth book in the Modern Library's 'Paris Review' Writers at Work series, 'Latin American Writers at Work' is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2003

by Ralph Kirshner

George Armstrong Custer wrote about his friend Pierce Manning Butler Young, who left West Point to become a Confederate general: 'I remember a conversation held at the table at which...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2008

by Nelson W. Aldrich

Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2009

by Daniel Oconnor

Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous fifteen-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete in the world, Michael Gerard Tyson. Since becoming, at age nineteen, the...Read More

Publication Date: May 2002

by George Plimpton

In April 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article that stunned the sports community. George Plimpton's 13-page profile of Sidd Finch, a mysterious pitcher who had been signed by the New...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2004

by Willee Lewis

This anthology straddles the realm of contemporary storytelling regarding one man's loathed-and revered-co-habitants, snakes.

Publication Date: Jun 2003

by George Plimpton

A classic of sport, and the first of George Plimpton's remarkable forays into "participatory" journalism, OUT OF MY LEAGUE chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a self-professed...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by George Plimpton

For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, where a man...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by George Plimpton

Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by George Plimpton

MAD DUCKS AND BEARS is the engaging companion to George Plimpton's PAPER LION. In this book, Plimptons personal favorite, he rejoins two of his football teammates from the Detroit Lions,...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by Peter Freuchen

Peter Freuchen drew upon his vast knowledge of nautical fact and legend, as well as his fantastic personal experiences, to write BOOK OF THE SEVEN SEAS. In these pages, readers...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2003

by George Plimpton

Incorporated in 1905, The Explorers Club in its earliest years met in simple rented rooms. In 1965, the Club bought a Tudor-style mansion on East 70th Street in the historic...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2005

by George Plimpton

George Plimpton's classic Paper Lion set the bar for participatory sports journalism, as the author shares his experiences in training camp, trying out as a quarterback for the NFL's Detroit...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2006

by George Plimpton

The modern classic that set the bar for sports writing. Author, journalist, editor, actor, and modern-day Renaissance man, George Plimpton (1927-2003) was perhaps best known for 'Paper Lion.' Originally published...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2009

by Charis Conn

The Harper's Index Book assembles the most useful, enduring, and compelling statistics from the Harper's Index -- arguably the most original (and most imitated) invention in magazine journalism. Since 1984,...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2000

by Truman Capote

The tranquil life he led in the quiet enclave of Brooklyn Heights stood in sharp contrast to the glittering scene he adored on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge,...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2002

by James P./ Plimpton, George Keenan

This jewel of a volume, beautiful to look at and the per-fect gift for booklovers, traces the origins, development, and exquisite designs of the personalized bookplate. Magnificent images display bookplates...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by George (EDT)/ Plimpton, George Plimpton

The first issue of The Paris Review in 1953 included an interview on the craft of writing with E. M. Forster, perhaps the greatest living author of the time. Subsequent...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 1999

by Neil (PHT)/ Plimpton, George (IN Leifer

The art of action photography and portraiture is brilliantly displayed in this stunning collection of Neil Leifer's best color and black-and-white images. From sports to politics and from celebrities to...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2001

by George Plimpton

Writer and media personality George Plimpton not only tells Shackleton's story, but recounts his own recent adventure following Shackleton's footsteps through the bleak, beautiful seas, and islands at the bottom...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2003

by George/ Koren, Edward (ILT) Plimpton

Pet Peeves is a brilliantly constructed, goofy mystery story in which readers are invited to figure out exactly what has happened to Dr. Rawff, a pet-problem advice columnist and veterinarian...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2000

by George Plimpton

"There are people who would perhaps call me a dilettante, because it looks as though I'm having too much fun. I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2003