Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2010. Paper Back. One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED--ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!--TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told... More
ReganBooks, August 2006. Hardcover. Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius, but as a subject of controversy--from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including the notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. Yet, as this... More
Pantheon Books, October 1997. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, and teacher gives us a blunt, irreverent, unsparingly honest guide to acting that overturns conventional truths and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know. David Mamet leaves no acting tenet untouched: How to judge the role, approach the... More
Northwestern University Press, January 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Frederick Ungar Publishing, November 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Charles Letts Co Ltd, September 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Letts, Charles Co Ltd, October 1993. Trade Paperback. Films like In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and most of all Rebel Without a Cause were to ensure cult status for Ray as one of the most revered of all American 'maverick' auteurs. This new edition of... More
Mariner, January 2009. Trade Paperback. More
Harvard University Press, April 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Greil Marcus, author of "Mystery Train," widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London... More
Pantheon, October 2011. Hardcover. ***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER*** Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals. In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust... More
Flatiron Books, October 2016. Hardcover. From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years. The Secret History of Twin Peaks enlarges the world of the original series, placing the unexplained phenomena that unfolded there into... More
Vintage, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a.... More
Grove Press, May 2001. Trade Paperback. More
Atlantic Monthly Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1985. Trade Paperback. Long before the first theories of psychoanalysis were formulated, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) became the pioneer of an art which discovered and depicted the inner conflicts of modern man. The initiator of the movement known as Expressionism, Munch's work was greeted... More
Norton*(ww Norton Co, April 1979. Trade Paperback. More
Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Of all the filmmakers who created a new international cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, the young German writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was unquestionably the most prolific and among the most gifted. In more than 40 films, from the 1969 neogangster... More
Holmes & Meier Publishers, January 1997. Trade Paperback. A memoir of the author who describes the lives caught up in Czechoslovakia's tragic fate under the Nazis. It also illuminates the chaotic life of a nation during the Stalin era. More
Journey Editions, November 1995. Hardcover. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2018. Hardcover. Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeA New York Times Notable, Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York... More
Silman-James Press, April 1995. Trade Paperback. In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated editor Murch's vivid, multifaceted thought-provoking essay on film editing Starting with the most basic question -- "Why do cuts work?" -- Murch treats the reader to a marvelous "ride" through the esthetics and practical concerns of... More
Columbus Books, January 1987. Trade Paperback. More
AK Press, July 2001. Trade Paperback. Contents Introduction by Marc Bayard Preface by the author Why Punk: Background comparisons with previous art movements; some defining characteristics of punk. Media Misrepresentations: How television, glossy magazines, and mindless mass media have done their best to defang the beast. Skinheads: Who they are... More
Scribner, May 1996. Trade Paperback. Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the "Toronto Star, " Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921... More
Random House, October 1995. Hardcover. More
