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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
Patton Oswalt · Scribner
Pages: 222
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt... |
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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
MICHAEL PERRY · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he's learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne."The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone... |
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Theft by Finding: Diaries
DAVID SEDARIS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiotDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the makingIt's no coincidence that the world's best writers tend to keep diaries.... |
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Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart
Mike Peros · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 221
Format: Print book
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Dan Duryea (1907-1968) made a vivid impression on moviegoers with his first major screen appearance as the conniving Leo Hubbard in 1941's classic melodrama The Little Foxes. His subsequent film and television career would span from 1941 until his death. Duryea remains best known for the nasty,... |
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A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
Ian Buruma · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant... |
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Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
Lauren Graham · Ballantine Books
Pages: 209
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood - along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking... |
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There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me
Brooke Shields · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom,... |
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Hollywood Godfather: The Life and Crimes of Billy Wilkerson
W R WILKERSON · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive biography of the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1930s, '40s and '50s, the man who founded the Hollywood Reporter and the most storied nightspots of the Sunset Strip, introduced Clark Gable and Lana Turner to the world, invented Las Vegas, brought... |
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
W KAMAU BELL · DUTTON
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in The New York Times, which called him, "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." Or maybe in The New Yorker,... |
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The Brand New Catastrophe
Mike Scalise · Sarabande Books
Pages: 260
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny PrizeRaucous family memoir meets medical adventure in this heartfelt, hilarious book exploring the public and private theaters of illness. After a tumor bursts in Mike Scalise's brain, leaving him with a hole in the head and malfunctioning hormones,... |
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Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir
George Clinton · Atria Books
Format: Print book
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The long-awaited memoir from one of the greatest bandleaders, hit makers, and most influential pop artists of our time—known for over forty R&B hit singles—George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic.George Clinton began his musical career in New Jersey, where his obsession with... |
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Not to be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film
Kenneth Turan · PublicAffairs
Pages: 345
Format: Hardcover
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The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan's fifty-four favorite films embrace a century of the world's most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers.Turan discovered... |
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