Eu, Sara, Me Confesso

These 44 profiles of universal writers along with their portraits, will help you see how the way of living of the writers affected their work.

Cuando cumplí 14 años, me enamoré de mi guitarra acústica y de la sonrisa de Ana... lo de la guitarra sí duró. El amor es como si todos los días fueran tu cumpleaños. Es escuchar tu canción favorita a todo volumen mientras viajas a la luna en tu Sentra 98. Es un incendio que no quieres apagar; y, a veces, es morirte de miedo. El amor te levanta de la cama a las 3:23 de la mañana para agarrar la guitarra y componer la canción más bonita del mundo. Esta es la historia de cómo siete acordes me enseñaron que el amor, definitivamente, sí es cosa de otro mundo.

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...

Hundreds of interviews and unedited testimonies paint a portrait of Fidel's intimate life, uncovering his love affairs--official as well as the ones he kept secret--and covering topics such as Castro's ties to the Soviet secret service, his terrifying system of repression, the death of Che Guevara, Cuba's role in Chile's coup d'État and the death of Allende, and U.S. policies with respect to the island.