America’s first fashion magazine, Harper’s Bazaar has showcased the visions of legendary editors, photographers, and stylists and featured the works of noted writers since 1867. From its beginnings as a broadsheet aimed at the rising leisure class, the publication has since transformed into a magazine devoted to examining the lives of women through the lens of fashion. In celebration of the magazine’s 150th anniversary in 2017, Harper’s Bazaar: 150 Years captures the grea...

Weaver's Knot immerses readers in the lives of textile mill workers, weavers, and needleworkers of Appalachia, and intrigues with the colorful tapestry of ethnic groups who mingle there. We are introduced to a traditional folksinger with a voice "granite rich and husky," and a Romani poet who beguiles a bored coffeehouse audience with Manouche jazz. "Everything's a song," she says. "Mountain girls" skat, dance to rain drumming on city roofs, and sass strangers who try to seduce with cock-e...

A tragedy involving her best friend and a mystery concerning the grandmother she never met drives Eve Gates to flee the mill town where she was born for New York, Paris, all the places she has conjured through her love of reading—only to be called back by family illnesses. Now she must decide whether she will settle back into her old home town or move into the larger literary world she has always craved. If she stays, can a delightful romance in a small-minded community provide a larg...

Movie legend, princess, tragic heroine. The moment Grace Kelly stepped into the spotlight in 1950, the world was entranced.In this definitive biography of Hollywood’s sweetheart, Robert Lacey looks behind the fairytale facade to reveal the real story of Princess Grace of Monaco, as she became.Gaining unprecedented access to her family and friends, he tells the story of a complex and conflicted woman determined to live her dream.The ...

Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses.In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances Stevens of To Catch a Thief, Grace established herself as one of Hollywo...

Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, and Vogue"A zingy account of the glittery, shallow 1980s . . . Brown is a waspish, reliably slick writer—her witty skewerings are first-class.” —The Times (London)Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an ...

The true story of Grace of Monaco, America's transatlantic Princess and one of the most beautiful women who ever lived. This is the real story of Grace Kelly, behind the Nicole Kidman story. A once in a lifetime story of an Oscar winning actress, a royal princess and a great beauty whose life ended far too soon. Based on three years research and over one hundred interviews, including interviews with nine of Grace's lovers and with her nephew, Baron Christian de Massy, the book also reveals...

**"A startling tale of ambition, creativity, fame, and ultimately tragedy. This is a terrific book." —Jon MeachamThe New York Times bestselling author of Deluxe and Fashionopolis chronicles the making and unmaking of two of the greatest fashion designers of our time**In the mid-1990s, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen exploded onto a fashion scene that was in an artistic and economic rut. Their daring visions shook the establishment out of its b...

From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and “one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style” (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris—“If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you’ll adore The Price of Illusion” (Elle).In a book as rich and dramatic as the li...

A "page-turning exposé" of the modeling industry recounting stories from the top models and revealing the ugly convergence of sex, wealth, drugs, obsession, and death behind the glamour ( Vogue )."Rewarding . . . highly enjoyable, perhaps unprecedented. The definitive work of the Barbizon school." — New York Times Book ReviewThe definitive story of the international modeli...

"The first comprehensive bio of legendary magazine editor Diana Vreeland is a can't-put-down read." — PeopleFrom her career at the helms of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue to her reign as consultant to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vreeland had an enormous impact on the fashion world and left a legacy so enduring that must-have style guides still quote her often-wild and always-relevant fashion pronouncements.Wi...

One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with booksJoe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an assortment of idiosyncratic reading challenges: spending a year reading only short books, spending a year reading books he always suspected he would hate, spending a year r...