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Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act

Jeff Corey · University Press of Kentucky
Pages: 265
Format: Hardcover

Jeff Corey (1914-2002) made a name for himself in the 1940s as a character actor in films like Superman and the Mole Men (1951) , Joan of Arc (1948) , and The Killers (1946) . Everything changed in 1951, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Corey...
 
 
Adjustment Day: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.

Adjustment...

 
 
The Hollywood Book Club

Steven Rea
Format: Hardcover


 
 
Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy

PAULA FINN · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Behind every great television show is a group of professionals working at the top of their games - but no one is more important than the writers. And while writing comedy, especially good comedy, is serious business - fraught with actor egos, demanding producers, and sleepless nights - it also...
 
 
The Creative Spark: How Writers, Musicians, Chefs, and Other Artists Found Their Voice and Followed Their Dreams

Shapiro, Michael · TRAVELERS' TALES/SOLAS HOUSE


 
 
Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore

Michael Westmore · Lyons Pr
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists

In Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren't shaping the visages of stardom. For their...
 
 
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

GREG SESTERO · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestseller - now a major motion picture directed by and starring James Franco!

From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a "sharply detailed ... funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors" (The New York Times) : the making of the cult...
 
 
Fox 8: A Story

George Saunders · Random House
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world - featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.

Fox 8 has always...
 
 
My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through

GUY BRANUM · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of New York Times bestsellers Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby, a collection of side-splitting and illuminating essays by the popular stand-up comedian, alum of Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project,...
 
 
Antoni in the Kitchen

Antoni Porowski · Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Antoni Porowski, the food and wine guru on Netflix's sensation Queer Eye, meets people where they live - literally. With appealing vulnerability, he shows cooks of all levels how to become more confident and casual in the kitchen. The verve and naturalness of his approach earned...
 
 
Joni: The Anthology

BARNEY HOSKYNS · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Nine Grammys. More than ten million albums sold. Named one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time by Rolling Stone. Here, for the first time, an essential collection of writings on Joni Mitchell that charts every major moment of the famed troubadour's extraordinary career,...
 
 
There I Go Again: How I Came to Be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, KITT, and Many Others

William Daniels · Potomac Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

There I Go Again is a celebrity memoir like no other, revealing the life of a man whose acting career has been so rich that millions of Americans know his face even while they might not recognize his name. William Daniels is an enigma - a rare chameleon who has enjoyed massive success both...
 
 
Look Alive Out There: Essays

Sloane Crosley · MCD
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Sloane Crosley does the impossible. She stays consistently funny and delivers a book that is alive and jumping." -- Steve Martin
From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There -- a brand-new collection of essays filled...
 
 
The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities

WAYNE KRAMER · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5

In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, The MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, they...
 
 
My British Invasion

HAROLD BRONSON · RARE BIRD BOOKS
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Co-founder of Rhino Records, Harold Bronson, tells his story. As a passionate music fan who explored the British music scene and met many of the performers whose music he loved, and in some cases got to know them as a music journalist, music executive, or friend, Harold gives an insiders...