“Because life is not enough: encounters with Miquel Barceló” by Michael Damiano “This book, the result of this personal research process, recounts the unique life of Barceló from his radical years of poverty in post-Francoist Mallorca to the vicissitudes of his great public projects and their triumphs and frustrations in the world of
“Gloria the poet: Gloria Fuertes” by Luisa Antolín Villota and Juan Manuel Santomé Calleja “Gloria Fuertes was a city girl who was always looking for pigeons and butterflies. One day, she discovered that reading was like looking out the window, running to the sea or stroking her own heart. Since she couldn't buy stories, she decided to write them herself.
“Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life” by Jon Lee Anderson “Jon Lee Anderson is the only biographer who has had exclusive access to the Cuban government archives and has enjoyed the collaboration of Che's widow, who had never spoken to any journalist , also obtained unpublished documents and was able to discover a kept mystery
“Diary of a Genius” by Salvador Dalí “Diary of a Genius (1952-1964), which follows My Secret Life, reveals an everyday Dalí, of extraordinary authenticity, a kind of nude portrait of Dalí, contemplating himself with great delight in the mirror before which he places himself.” Extracted from the Book House. Watch
“Looking back” by Russell Baker “From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst's Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books,
“Susan Sontag: the creation of an icon” by Carl Rollyson & Lisa Paddock “At the beginning of a new time full of surprises, Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock collect in this monumental biography the keys that have made Susan Sontag a contemporary myth, while revealing its lesser-known facets such as the
“Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age” by Kurt W. Beyer
“Portrait of the artist in 1956” by Jaime Gil de Biedma “It was the express wish of Jaime Gil de Biedma that this newspaper reach the printing press after his death. The three parts that compose it (The Islands of Circe, Report on the General Administration in the Philippines and Back to Ithaca), not only constitute
“The diary of a young girl” by Anne Frank “The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and
“JD Salinger: a life” by Kenneth Slawenski “One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life.” Extracted from the back cover. See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/books/review/McInerney-t.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/ 18/AR2011021806872.html http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger The recommended titles are in the