Justin Spring

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail. After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chicago’s notorious South State Street, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research. During the early 1960s, Steward changed his name and identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat pro-homosexual pornography under the name of Phil Andros. Until today he has been known only as Phil Sparrow—but an extraordinary archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1993, has provided Justin Spring with the material for an exceptionally compassionate and brilliantly illuminating life-and-times biography. More than merely the story of one remarkable man, Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation. Secret Historian is a 2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

Secret Historian

the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade

Secret historian

Explaining how to get the most out of a small kitchen, a handy guide reveals how to transform a tiny space into a model of practical style and efficiency, with tips on how to eliminate unncessary items and maximize limited shelf and countertop space, effortless entertaining, cook-friendly ways to set up a kitchen, select cooking equipment, and more, with forty recipes that are perfect for a small kitchen. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Everything You Need to Know about Setting Up & Cooking in the Most Ridiculously Small Kitchen in the World-- Your Own

The Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook

Mark Rothko

Christopher Rothko

Milton Avery

Gottlieb, Adolph

Ann Freedman

Philip Cavanaugh

Sean Avery Cavanaugh

Madeleine Sentner

Tony Vevers

Edye Weissler

William Scharf

Avery Gottlieb Rothko--Provincetown Summers 1957-1961

Coming to Light

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail. After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chicago's notorious South State Street, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research. During the early 1960s, Steward changed his name and identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat pro-homosexual pornography under the name of Phil Andros. Until today he has been known only as Phil Sparrow—but an extraordinary archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1993, has provided Justin Spring with the material for an exceptionally compassionate and brilliantly illuminating life-and-times biography. More than merely the story of one remarkable man, Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation. Secret Historian is a 2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Tired of spending $5 on cheesy get well cards? Too lazy to make chicken soup? The Little Cold Book is the perfect gift for anyone feeling under the weather -- and it's guaranteed to keep readers amused and entertained for the duration of an average cold. In concise and humorous chapters, The Little Cold Book explores: - the science of colds - the amazing health benefits of chocolate - time-tested home remedies - great movies to watch when you're sick and plenty of other topics bound to amuse anyone feeling ill. With The Little Cold Book -- and plenty of fluids, of course -- your sniffly friend will feel better in no time!

Advice, Remedies, & Bedside Amusements

The Little Cold Book

Louis Finkelstein

Wolf Kahn

At a time when abstract expressionism dominated the American art world, Kahn applied these techniques in a representational manner revolutionizing landscape painting. Contains 100 colour plates.

A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France During les trente glorieuses—a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis—Paris was not only the world’s most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius and innovation. The Gourmands’ Way explores the lives and writings of six Americans who chronicled the food and wine of “the glorious thirty,” paying particular attention to their individual struggles as writers, to their life circumstances, and, ultimately, to their particular genius at sharing awareness of French food with mainstream American readers. In doing so, this group biography also tells the story of an era when America adored all things French. The group is comprised of the war correspondent A. J. Liebling; Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein’s life partner, who reinvented herself at seventy as a cookbook author; M.F.K. Fisher, a sensualist and fabulist storyteller; Julia Child, a television celebrity and cookbook author; Alexis Lichine, an ambitious wine merchant; and Richard Olney, a reclusive artist who reluctantly evolved into a brilliant writer on French food and wine. Together, these writer-adventurers initiated an American cultural dialogue on food that has continued to this day. Justin Spring’s The Gourmands’ Way is the first book ever to look at them as a group and to specifically chronicle their Paris experiences.

Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

The Gourmands' Way

Justin Spring

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