La suerte de mi destino

The intimate story of two of the most famous, yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature—Jack Kerouac and his friend, traveling companion, and hero, Neal Cassady—this is a firsthand account of life among the Beat generation, written by the woman who was Cassady’s wife and Kerouac’s lover. Beginning with the early days of Kerouac and Cassady’s friendship, Carolyn Cassady’s riveting memoir narrates the explosive success of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s "Howl," the flowering of the Beat generation, and the social revolution of the 1960s that saw Kerouac and Cassady taken...

Con la habilidad y el coraje de los grandes talentos, Andy Anderson abre en este relato crudo y audaz la caja de las experiencias familiares que nos atraviesan para siempre. Escrita con aguda sensibilidad literaria, esta narración habla de la familia, de la vida y de la muerte, del envejecimiento de quienes han sido importantes para nosotros. Habla sobre todo de la memoria, la propia y la ajena. Esa memoria que nos pertenece y nos configura, hasta que deja de hacerlo. Mi otra madre reconstruye una historia personal y familiar a partir de los recuerdos y las percepciones de uno de sus...

Of the 110 letters pertaining to the last seven years of Quevedo's life (1639-1645), 42 were composed during his four-year imprisonment in San Marcos de León. They are extensive and addressed to two distinguished Jesuits with whom Quevedo shared frankly (but under pseudonyms) news received in prison, including literary activity, military campaigns, politics and even his own parodies of the intrigues of the most powerful nobles at Court. These letters were carefully copied by two early 18th-century scholars in a hitherto unpublished manuscript of great interest and accuracy. This critical...

Written during the last eight months of his life, these diaries are an unfiltered narration of the life of Joe Orton, the extremely successful and famous British playwright. On August 9, 1967, Orton was murdered in London by Kenneth Halliwell, his lover of 16 years, who bludgeoned him with a hammer and then immediately committed suicide. Halliwell left a note that said that all would be explained if the police read Orton's diaries. In the diaries, Orton narrates his literary success, his sexual escapades—at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers—and...