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"A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and director Christine Lahti. For decades, Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, Swing Shift, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Now, this acclaimed performer channels her creativity inward to share...
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When Robert Benchley died in 1945, his obituaries read like love-letters from the world. Here is a collection of his short, whimsical, hilarious articles which show why.
With befuddled and heroic bewilderment Benchley faces his problems. Among others are the mislaid locomotive, a dachshund who sued for libel, and a songbird who was "out to get" Benchley.
It ends with five sizzling chapters of his "Untold Story," starting when, as an innocent...
With befuddled and heroic bewilderment Benchley faces his problems. Among others are the mislaid locomotive, a dachshund who sued for libel, and a songbird who was "out to get" Benchley.
It ends with five sizzling chapters of his "Untold Story," starting when, as an innocent...
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A Hugo Award Nominee!
Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman!
“J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.” — Max Brooks (World War Z)
For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to forge multiple careers in movies, television and comics.
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In "American on Purpose," Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark--as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.
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This mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton's brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick White Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton's public career spanned only three years (1964–1967), but his work made a lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr....
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"In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years,...
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Becoming a Warrior is the triumphant memoir of about a shy, 10-year-old girl who has a dream and perseveres for fifty years to make that dream come true, to make a movie based on Madeleine L'Engle's, A Wrinkle in Time. Working in the worlds of politics and entertainment, Catherine Hand learned lessons that gave her the courage and strength to navigate through personal tragedies and professional hurdles. She recounts her time spent with the legendary...
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Philip K. Dick es autor de obras clásicas de la ciencia ficción que han inspirado películas como Bladerunner, Desafío Total y Minority Report. Desafortunadamente, Dick no vivió lo suficiente para ver cómo su sospecha de la realidad y su búsqueda de la esencia humana en un mundo artificial se convertían en preocupaciones cotidianas y lugares comunes de nuestra cultura.
Basándose en una cuidadosa revisión de materiales biográficos y en su...
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Philip K. Dick is the author of science-fiction classics that have inspired movies like “Bladerunner”, “Total Recall” and “Minority Report”. Sadly, Dick did not live enough to see how his suspicion of reality and his search for the human essence in an artificial world became mainstream concerns and pop culture icons.
Based on a careful review of biographical materials and his personal acquaintance with some of Dick's closest friends and...
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"The high point: his breezy honesty." - Entertainment Weekly
"Leguizamo is one of the most excting talents to come along in some time." - USA Today
"[Leguizamo is] a remarkably mature writer . . . Astonishing." - Newsweek
"Brutally funny." - The New York Times
"This mix of the glib and the sometimes glam presents a refreshing cultural tonic." - Publishers Weekly
"Leguizamo's autobiography is as singular as the man himself. " - Library Journal...
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Poet. Dancer. Immigrant. Artist. Son. Brother. There's always more than meets the eye . . .
Valentin "Val" Chmerkovskiy has captivated viewers with his striking performances on Dancing with the Stars since his first step, season after season. His raw talent, dashing looks, and genuine kindness have made him an instant, beloved star. Now, for the first time ever, viewers will have an all-access pass to Val's life-and in I'll Never Change My Name,...
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The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism,...
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The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism,...
18) Neuros Aires
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Este libro es muchos libros, porque son muchas las ciudades que llamamos Buenos Aires. Se trata de un libro muy caminado, que destila la esencia cultural, erótica y psicoanalítica de una gran ciudad, barrio por barrio. Es un libro muy leído, que cita poemas, ensayos y ficciones para crear la banda sonora de una interpretación urbana, pero también muy vivido, cargado de experiencia y de amistad y de pasión y de ironía: lleno de verdad, digamos....
19) Writing Home
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Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennett's garden for more than twenty years. This revised and updated edition includes new material from the author,...
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My First Seven Years is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers. Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army.
In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo...
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