After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon
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Over forty-five years have elapsed since Derek Mahon announced his arrival at the forefront of Irish...
An Estate Car Named Desire: A Life on the Road
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This was a car with a voice: Its engine note, a deep, powerful burble, was as distinct to me as the...
Steadfast Boats and Fisher People
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ILLUSTRATED with 200 photographs, all of which were taken by the author, this evocative book reveals...
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry
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Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and...
Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010
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When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome....
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
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From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the "New Yorker" articles of John McPhee,...
The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux
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The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the...
Audrey the 60s
David Wills and Stephen Schmidt
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Audrey Hepburn charmed cinema audiences in the 1950s as a new type of screen presence - gamine,...
Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties
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"[T]he book's considerable lasting value lies in the quality and depth of the contextual material,...
Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert and David Bordwell
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Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for over forty years. In fact,...