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Amore
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
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...
The Essential Canon of Classical Music
North Point Press
North Point Press
The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener
Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive...
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
An Arlene Croce Reader
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“Cool, fully engaged, brilliant and tough.” —Rick Whitaker, The Washington Post Book World
Theoretically, I am ready to go to...
Postmodern Pooh
North Point Press
North Point Press
A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex
Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh...
Positively 4th Street
North Point Press
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
North Point Press
When twenty-five-year-old Bob Dylan wrecked his motorcycle near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was already recognized as a genius, a...
Indivisible by Four
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Guarneri Quartet is fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Here is its story from the inside--a story filled with drama, humor,...
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Unexpurgated Edition
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The astonishing, legendary diaries of the great dancer, complete and unexpurgated
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the...
Family Man
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up....
Last Night's Fun
North Point Press
A Book About Irish Traditional Music
North Point Press
Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of...
Piano Pieces
North Point Press
North Point Press
Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man's virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion...
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