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Intimacy Idiot

From an award-winning playwright who splits the difference between David Rakoff and Larry David (New York magazine)a compulsively readable debut (Time Out New York) of big-hearted, laugh-until-you-cant-breathe essays, stories, and riffs on...

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Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades

By: Bernard Bailyn

Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn captures the particularity of the past...

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What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

By: Jeffrey Sweet

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater...

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They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema

By: Jonathan Lethem

“One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky '80s sci-fi flick” ( Hartford Advocate ). Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh...

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

By: Valeria Luiselli

Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and...

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Fear of Music

By: Jonathan Lethem

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun – with Brian Eno's...

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Lives of Houses

By: Kate Kennedy

A group of notable writers–including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow–celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the...

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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

By: Colum McCann

From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer–and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward....

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