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Exit Interview

Sarah Crichton Books
When David Westin became president of ABC News in March 1997, the division was treading water. “It looked like all the really important news was behind us,” he...
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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire
Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory...
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Soul Mining
A Musical Life

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have something in common: some of their best albums were produced by...
  
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Listen to This

Picador
One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has...
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Amore
The Story of Italian American Song

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Amore is Mark Rotella’s celebration of the “Italian decade”—the years after the war and before the Beatles when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and...
  
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Retromania
Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

Faber and Faber, Inc.
One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours,...
  
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go
How to Live, Work, and Play in the City

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is...
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You Must Go and Win
Essays

Faber and Faber, Inc.
In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock...
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Positively 4th Street
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña

Picador
Tenth Anniversary Edition The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich...
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Theatre

Faber and Faber, Inc.
If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, “many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical.” As always,...
  

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The Animator's Survival Kit--Revised Edition
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
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Fragments
Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death,...
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On Film-making
An Introduction to the Craft of the Director

Faber and Faber, Inc.
A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of Sweet Smell of Success After more than twenty years in the film industry as...
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The God of Carnage
A Play

Faber and Faber, Inc.
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need...
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The Anatomy of Story
22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

Faber and Faber, Inc.
"If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [his lessons inspire] epiphanies that make you see the...
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The Animator's Survival Kit
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
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Burton on Burton, 2nd Revised Edition

Faber and Faber, Inc.
A revised edition of the only book to explore the unique brilliance of director Tim Burton's work, including a new chapter on the making of Sleepy...
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The Playwright's Guidebook
An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing

Faber and Faber, Inc.
An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find...
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Moviemakers' Master Class
Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors

Faber and Faber, Inc.
From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard, interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films--and why Each great filmmaker...
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Laurel Canyon
The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood

Faber and Faber, Inc.
In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles...
  
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The Reel Truth
Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their...
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Positively Fifth Street
Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker

Picador
In the spring of 2000, Harper's Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in particular the progress of women in the $23...
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Lynch on Lynch, Revised Edition

Faber and Faber, Inc.
David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in...
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Brecht on Theatre
The Development of an Aesthetic

Hill and Wang
This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956,...