The Burning Library
Essays
From the National Book Award honored author of A Previous Life and a master of American literature comes a dazzling collection of 25 years of groundbreaking essays that redefined politics, language, identity, and friendship.
“A testament to White’s versatility, his insatiable curiosity about the emergence of gays in modern American life…. Fascinating.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Along with his essays of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince.
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October 31, 1995Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America—States of Desire—and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.
The Stonewall Reader
Edited by The New York Public Library; Foreword by Edmund White; Edited with an Introduction by Jason Baumann
Marcel Proust
Edmund White
A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot Introduction by Edmund White
The Married Man
Edmund White
Marcel Proust
Edmund White
The Farewell Symphony
Edmund White
Caracole
Edmund White
Skinned Alive
Edmund White
The Burning Library
Edmund White
Forgetting Elena
Edmund White
Genet
Edmund White
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
The Thinking Heart
David Grossman
Voices of the Fallen Heroes
Yukio Mishima
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Tomás Nevinson
Javier Marías
Knight's Gambit
William Faulkner
Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
The Rainbow
Yasunari Kawabata
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy
The Singularities
John Banville