Top 5 biography

Lucinda Williams. Having grown up in the family class in the deep south, she moved from the city to the city every time her father, the poet, the seller of textbooks, a professor, a lover of parties - was settled for a new job, and by eighteen, she replaced a total of twelve places. Her mother suffered from a serious mental illness and now and then went to hospitals. When Williams was about a year, she had to make an emergency tracheotomy - an unfavorable beginning for the singer’s career.

But she was born a fighter, and she developed a voice that conquered millions. In the book “Do not tell anyone the secrets that I told you,” Williams leads readers through events that formed her music - from performances in front of the family in the living room to singing in local secondary schools and colleges Mexico City, records of the first album on Folkway Records and performances as a Hedliner of the Andhela City City Music Hall.

She talks about inspiration for her unforgettable texts, including doomed love novels with "poets on motorcycles" and Gothic southern landscapes of different cities of her youth, including Meikon, Lake Charles, Baton Ruzh and New Orleans. Williams spent years working in healthy food stores and music stores during the day in order to be able to perform her music at night, and faced with sound recording companies that told her that her music was not “finished”, that she was too country for rock and too rock for country.

” But her fighting spirit remained, which led to the success achieved with such difficulty, which includes seventeen nominations for the Grammy Award and the heritage as one of the greatest and most influential authors of the songs of our time. Andrew McCarthy. In an effort to create a more significant connection with Sam before he flies out of the nest, as well as recreate his own journey, which changed his life a decade ago, McCarthy decided that they should go on a campaign that few people who had seen: miles on the Spanish route Camino de Santiago.

Throughout the way, the couple overcame the inexorable landscape, in five weeks they spent more frank conversations than in the previous two decades.

Talking about divorce, school injuries, McCarthy complex relations with their own father, glory and hot cheeses threatened to either destroy their relationship, or strengthen them. In the book "Walk with Sam" this intimate, frank and complete hope expedition is captured when the duet of the father and son travels around the country and towards each other. Samantha Irby.

She evades Hollywood calls and flaunts on the red carpet on the premieres, well, on the same premiere. But on the Internet, where she can cut out all the ugly details, nothing happens the way it seems. Irbi received many strange letters about Carrie Bradshaw, and now she has to avoid not only diarrhea, but also anaphylactic shock. She is not allowed into restaurants for inappropriate clothes, and she is looking for the best ways to cope with the problem, for example, enjoying QVC offers and adopting an abnormal pandemic dog.

In the "quiet hostility" Irby conducts another outrageously funny excursion in all terrible details that make up a true portrait of life hiding behind the screenshots of depressive memes. Relative, piercing and ridiculous, Irby once again gives us a tonic remedy in which we all need to survive. Jonathan Eig. Aig shows that the history of King is more convincing and complex than we thought.

For too long, his radical vision of the future was erased. The hope of his message “I have a dream” and the tragedy of his murder at the age of 39 suppress the story of a brilliant brave and complex person, which obscures his real meaning for today's society and the future. His vision went far beyond the achievement of equal handling with black men and women, which was only part of a much more great and large -scale mission - that which was forgotten by the majority.

Rachel Louise Snyder. The book "Women we have buried, women we burned" is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her frustrated father sent a family to the evangelical sect, which was at the other end of the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and at home at the age of 16. Living in the car and relying on strangers, Rachel began to disguise themselves as an adult, persuade to enter college and eventually went on a trip around the world.

Survival became her reporting work. In places such as India, Tibet and Niger, she interviewed those who survived the unimaginable. In Cambodia, where she lived for six years, she watched how the country copes with the horrors of her recent history. When she returned to the United States with her own family, she looked at the old family wounds in a new way and received a chance of healing in the most unexpected place.A piercing story about the path of a snider from a adolescent to the reporter about the global epidemic of domestic violence, "the women we have buried, the women we burned" are memoirs that embody the transformative power of resistance.

Buy the book “Women We Burved, Women We Burned” in the original to order a translation of the book “Women we have buried, the women we burned” in Russian.