Benjamin Taylor Books
Naples Declared
A lively, elegantly concise historic tour of Italy’s city by the bayAn invaluable addition to the art of literary travel writing, Naples Declared presents an informative and compulsively readable a...
Read MoreThe Hue and Cry at Our House
The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.Winner of t...
Read MoreHere We Are
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth fr...
Read MoreHere We Are
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth fr...
Read MoreInto the open
Benjamin Taylor's Into the Open is an inquiry into the deeper meanings of an indispensable modern word: "genius." What legacy do we invoke when we use it? Taylor answers in an original way, explori...
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