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Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
SAM WASSON · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate - and often hilarious - history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular.
At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago.... |
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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... |
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
KEN JENNINGS · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings, a history of humor - from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes - that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world.
For... |
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Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B-Movie Actor
BRUCE CAMPBELL · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Introduction by New York Times bestselling author and famous minor television personality John Hodgman
It's been 15 years since his first memoir but Bruce is still living the dream as a "B" movie king in an "A" movie world. Bruce... |
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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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Lessons from the Prairie: The Surprising Secrets to Happiness, Success, and
Melissa Francis · Weinstein Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Melissa Francis was only eight years old when she won the role of a lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on the world's most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie.
Now in Lessons from the Prairie, she shares behind-the-scenes stories from the set, and lessons... |
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Write Screenplays that Sell: The Ackerman Way: Newly Revised and Updated!
Hal Ackerman · Tallfellow Press
Pages: 305
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You don't have to attend film school to take a screenwriting course with the master teacher in the field - it's all in his book Meet Hal Ackerman, up close and personal, just as hundreds of his students have known him through the years. Hal Ackerman offers a treasure trove of information... |
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Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People
Danny Katch · Haymarket Books
Pages: 154
Format: Paperback
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The election of Donald Trump has sent the United States and the world into uncharted waters, with a bigoted, petty man-child at the head of the planet's most powerful empire. Danny Katch indicts the hollowness of the US political system that led to Trump's rise and puts forward... |
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Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations
Matt Bellassai · Atria/Keywords Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the break-out star of BuzzFeed and the People's Choice Award-winning comedian behind the web series "Whine About It" and "To Be Honest" comes a collection of hilariously anguished essays chronicling awful moments from his life so far, the humiliations of being... |
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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."... |
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Pink Floyd: Song by Song
Andrew Wild · Fonthill Media
Pages: 159
Format: Paperback
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Pink Floyd Song by Song takes a fresh look at the songs which led to Pink Floyd becoming the third best-selling band of all time. From 'Arnold Layne' to 'Louder Than Words', Pink Floyd wrote about anger, isolation, regret, dismay, and fear. These themes, not always obvious... |
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Claw the System: Poems from the Cat Uprising
Francesco Marciuliano · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Could Pee on This, Francesco Marciuliano, comes a lesson from cats in resistance. Cats are done with humans' crap. For too long they have put up with baby talk, the humiliation of holiday costumes, and the social injustice of being... |
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My British Invasion
HAROLD BRONSON · RARE BIRD BOOKS
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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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... |
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