“The Flame shows the great power of words to endure long after the person who has written them has passed away, and to offer relief from suffering and elevate the spirits – not only for the writer, but for the reader and listener, too.”
Anita Sethi
iNews
“Picasso said a picture hung crookedly on a wall tells you a lot more about the owner than a straight one ever could; he said he preferred crooked pictures. He knew, of course, we are all crooked pictures, busy in the lifelong pursuit of straightening ourselves, yet it is the straight picture we strive to portray.”
Thomas Page McBee, author of Amateur, was the first transgender man ever to box at Madison Square Garden. This is the story of how that happened.
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian from 1995-2015 and author of Breaking News, on experiencing the complete upheaval of the news business from the inside.
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David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
“A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs” – the Guardian reviews Room to Dream.
P.D. Smith
Guardian
