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"Kay Boyle knew everybody. In a long life (1902-1992) spent in motion between the United States and Europe she was the friend of Robert McAlmon (whose Being Geniuses Together she supplemented), with Harry and Caresse Crosby (founders of The Black Sun Press), Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst (with whom she fled World War II France), Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Janet Flanner, Katherine Anne Porter, and a host of other powers and talents. Twice recipient of the O. Henry award for the best short story of the year (in 1935 for "The White Horses of Vienna" and 1941 for "Defeat"), Boyle was also an early contributor to Harriet Monroe's Poetry and published novels in every decade between the 1930s and 1990s. She published more than forty books, including fourteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry, children's books, memoirs, and translations. Throughout her life Boyle wrote letters. Boyle was a foreign correspondent for The New Yorker from 1946 until 1953, when she and her Austrian husband were caught by McCarthy's red scare. Her famous correspondents include William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Djuna Barnes, Alfred Stieglitz, Katherine Anne Porter, Howard Nemerov, Jessica Mitford, and Louise Erdrich. Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters gathers hundreds of her letters to tell in her own words the excitement, frustrations, intrigues, dangers, and satisfactions of the intersecting careers of Boyle and her friends. Candid and canny, Boyle wrote with freedom and wit, haste, ire, and affection. Her letters reveal as nothing else can her involvement with writing and writers"--

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. --- Authors, American --- Women authors, American --- American women authors --- Boyle, Kay,

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"An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original."--Back cover. Part-essay and part-memoir, 'This Little Art' is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation.

Literature --- translations [documents] --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Books and reading. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Littérature --- Translating and interpreting. --- Translators. --- Übersetzung. --- Literary Figures. --- Personal Memoirs. --- European. --- Women Authors. --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- Translations. --- Traductions --- Histoire et critique. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Briggs, Kate

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Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as well as the promise of new understanding. Wo.

Feminist archaeology. --- Women --- Sex role --- Féminisme et archéologie --- Femmes --- Rôle selon le sexe --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Archäologie. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Frau. --- Geschlechterrolle. --- Sex role. --- Women. --- Historical. --- Personal Memoirs. --- Political. --- Presidents & Heads of State. --- Reference. --- Rich & Famous. --- Royalty. --- To 500. --- Vor- und Frühgeschichte.

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"A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane" (Kirkus Reviews), Don't Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips--before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps. The birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streaming--sans seatbelts!--to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didn't so much take vacations as survive them. Between home and destination lay thousands of miles and dozens of annoyances, and with his family Richard Ratay experienced all of them--from being crowded into the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir only to find that a better one might have been had at the next attraction, to dealing with a dad who didn't believe in bathroom breaks. Now, decades later, Ratay offers "an amiable guide ... fun and informative" (New York Newsday) that "goes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summer's day" (The Wall Street Journal). In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once made the Great American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot "land yachts," oasis-like Holiday Inn "Holidomes," "Smokey"--Spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, and the thrill of finding a "good buddy" on the CB radio. An "informative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips" (Publishers Weekly), Don't Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the country's, and why those magical journeys that once brought families together--for better and worse--have largely disappeared.

Automobile travel --- Automobile travel --- Automobile travel --- Automobile travel. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Family vacations --- Family vacations. --- HISTORY --- Manners and customs. --- Popular culture --- Popular culture --- Popular culture. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- History --- History --- Personal Memoirs. --- History --- Social History. --- History --- Popular Culture. --- 1900-1999. --- United States --- United States --- United States. --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs.

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The reign of Gaston III, Count of Foix and self-proclaimed sovereign Lord of Béarn, stands out as one of the rare success stories of the 'calamitous' fourteenth century. By playing a skilful game of shifting allegiances and timely defiance, he avoided being drawn into the conflicts between his more powerful neighbours - France and English Aquitaine, Aragon and Castile - thus sparing his domains the devastations of warfare. Best known as a patron of the arts, and the author of a celebrated 'Book of the Hunt', Fébus - as he styled himself - also prefigures the eighteenth-century 'enlightened despots' with his effort to centralize government, protect natural resources and promote enterprise. But a sequence of mysterious tragedies - the abrupt dismissal of his wife, the slaying of his only legitimate son - reveal the dark side of the brilliant and enigmatic 'Sun Prince of the Pyrenees'. RICHARD VERNIER is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University. He is the author of 'The Flower of chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War'.

Gaston --- Béarn (France) --- France --- Kings and rulers --- Biography. --- History --- Rois et souverains --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Nobility --- Béarn (France) --- Phœbus, Gaston, --- Phébus, Gaston, --- Fébus, Gaston, --- Gaston Fébus, --- Foix, Gaston --- Gaston Phébus, --- Gaston-Phœbus, --- Biarn (France) --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. --- Count of Foix. --- Fourteenth Century. --- Gaston Fébus. --- Lord of Béarn. --- Patron of the Arts. --- Political Alliances. --- Socioeconomic Change. --- Sun Prince of the Pyrenees. --- Bearn (France)