diaries

Presents thoughts, lyrics, drawings, and letters that filled Nirvana singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain's notebooks from the late 1980s to his death in 1994.

A collection of letters and excerpts from the diary of Civil War Union soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes compiled by his great-grandson that chronicles his experiences as a foot soldier from 1861 to 1865.

The author tells the stories of a number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay as she provided supervised legal counsel and helped them find evidence that would prove their innocence.

Presents the notebooks of Dawid Sierakowiak, kept between June 28, 1939, shortly before his fifteenth birthday, and April 15, 1943, a few months before his death, telling what life was like for the Jews who were forced to live in the sealed Lodz Ghetto in Poland during World War II.

Journal of philosopher and author Ayn Rand, revealing her thoughts and memories concerning communism, her immigration to America, Objectivism, and discussing her novels and screenplays.

This cllection was published in conjunction with Boskone 39 (a Science Fiction convention in the Boston-area), of which Mr. Gaiman was Guest of Honor. The heart of this predominantly nonfiction collection is a Web log about publishing and publicizing his big novel American Gods. The log is amusing, informative about the nuts-and-bolts of bringing a book from typescript to buyers' hands,and gratifying for the same reason that most of the shorter pieces here are: getting to know whom Gaiman admires among fellow fantasy, sf, and comics creators. Handfuls of poems, song lyrics, and short-short stories round out an altogether delightful book.