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Herzog by Ebert
Roger Ebert · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched by a sheer love of life that bolstered... |
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Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures
JENNIFER ROMOLINI · HarperBusiness
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want - from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward... |
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The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV
Eric Hart · Focal Press
Pages: 413
Format: Hardcover
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Experienced prop maker Eric Hart walks readers through techniques used in historical and contemporary prop making and demonstrates how to apply them to a variety of materials. Hundreds of full-color photographs illustrate the tools and techniques used by professional prop makers throughout... |
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Don't Stop Believin': The Man, the Band, and the Song that Inspired Generations
Jonathan Cain · Zondervan
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover
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From One of the Greatest Bands in History Comes a Reminder to Never Give Up Hope. In this long-awaited memoir, complete with color photographs, songwriter and keyboardist Jonathan Cain takes us on an odyssey from center stage with Journey when all America was listening to songs like... |
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Captain Fantastic: Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s
Tom Doyle · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Based on rare one-on-one interviews with the flamboyant rock 'n' roll icon, this is the first book to trace Elton John's meteoric rise from obscurity to worldwide celebrity in the wildest, weirdest decade of the twentieth century.
In August 1970, Elton John achieved overnight fame... |
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Wanna Bet?: A Degenerate Gambler's Guide to Living on the Edge
Artie Lange · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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When Artie Lange's first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller, Too Fat To Fish, hit the top of the charts, audiences learned what Howard Stern listeners already knew: that Artie is one of the funniest people alive. He is also an artist haunted by his fair share of demons,... |
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We Cast a Shadow: A Novel
Maurice Carlos Ruffin · One World
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father's obsessive quest to protect his son - even if it means turning him white
"An incisive and necessary work of brilliant satire." - Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
"You... |
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Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things
Loudon Wainwright, III · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Loudon Wainwright III, the son of esteemed Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright, Jr., is the patriarch of one of America's great musical families. He is the former husband of Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche, and father of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright... |
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Are You Anybody: A Memoir
Jeffrey Tambor · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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It's rare that an actor embodies even one memorable character over the arc of a career. Jeffrey Tambor has managed to create three, beginning with Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, the series created by Garry Shandling, Jeffrey's first mentor in television.... |
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Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever
Gavin Edwards · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A pop culture celebration of Fred Rogers and the enduring legacy of his beloved, award-winning PBS show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood that offers essential wisdom to help us in our troubled times.
Won't you be my neighbor? For more than thirty years, Fred Rogers was a beloved... |
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Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
Jeremy Asher Dauber · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated scholar's rich account of Jewish humor: its nature, its development, and its vital role throughout Jewish history. In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter.... |
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Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost
Erin Osmon · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Erin Osmon presents a detailed, human account of the Rust Belt-born musician Jason Molina - a visionary, prolific, and at times cantankerous singer-songwriter with an autodidactic style that captivated his devoted fans. The songwriting giant behind the bands Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric... |
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I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Emily Nussbaum · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
From her creation of the first "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004... |
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ABC's of Stand-up Comedy: Go zero to funny in one book!
Matt Wohlfarth · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
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Go from zero to funny in one book with ABC's of Stand-up Comedy. This quick-hitting guide is essential to any person interested in a career in stand-up comedy. |
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
GREG SESTERO · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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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... |
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