Product Description: This collection of 5 dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history...read more

Product Description: A Pulitzer Prize–winning editorialist and a former syndicated columnist, Edwin M. Yoder Jr. spent forty years as a newspaper journalist. Telling Others What to Think, he writes, is about "an education in its broadest sense," the experiences and personal influences that formed him...read more

Product Description: In Misfit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic of The Washington Post portrays in full one of the most tormented, distinctive, and talented writers of the post-war years. Frederick Exley's story, which in Yardley's telling reads as if it were a novel, reveals a singular personality: raunchy, vulgar, self-centered, and even infantile, yet also loyal, self-deprecating, and unfailingly humorous...read more

Recently discovered letters fill out an account of Lardner's jazz-age life, his career and accomplishment as a short-story writer, and his considerable work as a newspaperman (view table of contents)

Product Description: In Monday Morning Quarterback, Washington D.C.'s best known columnist offers his wit and wisdom on America in the 1990s, from politics and culture to sports and literature.

Presents a collection of short stories, including 'Alibi Ike,' 'Some Like them Cold,' and 'Young Immigrunts.'

A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic details his personal odyssey through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C, discovering his roots and observing life in the Mid-Atlantic states.

Reassesses ten years of American cultural life, in a collection of articles and essays that includes such sections as 'The Lit'ry Scene,' 'The American Scene,' and 'My Scene'

The author looks back on the lives of his parents, recreates the world in which they grew up, and examines the changes brought about during the twentieth century