The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.
Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.

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Stephen Fry's English DelightStephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.

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Fry's English Delight - Series 2

Series Two
Four episodes of approx. 30 min. each, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
1 So Wrong It's Right  
Stephen examines how 'wrong' English can become right English.  With help from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a Times sub-editor and a judge, Stephen examines the way in which usage changes language.
2 Speaking Proper
Stephen investigates what nowadays counts as 'speaking proper'.
3 Hallo!
Stephen says 'goodbye' with a programme about 'hallo', and how it came to be one of the world's favourite words.

4 The joy of gibberish

Stephen Fry investigates the phenomenon of gibberish - what it is, why we write and speak and sing it, and why we enjoy it so much.

Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto

Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed.