The Rest of the Story: A Continued Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

By Arthur Laurents(Hardback)

Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy, Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo. He also garnered impressive credits as a screenwriter (The Way We Were) and stage director (La Cage aux Folles). Such a varied professional life makes for absorbing reading, as....

Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro

By Leonard Slatkin(Hardback)

Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs is brought to life for the music lover as well as for the aspiring maestro in a new book by Leonard Slatkin. Drawing on his....

Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them

By Frank Langella(Hardback)

Still Got it, Never Lost it: My Story

By Louie Spence(Paperback)

'I did everything my sisters did, that's how my dancing days started -- they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on dancing.'

Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform

(Hardback)

Presents the musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works. This title shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres - from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera - became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career.

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Deeply Superficial: Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich, and Me

By Michael Menzies(Hardback)

In this dazzling memoir that also serves as a dual biography of stage and film legends Noel Coward and Marlene Dietrich, producer Michael Menzies chronicles in hilarious detail his life-long obsession with the theater in general and these two international superstars in particular. Born in New Zealand, and physically a doppelganger of his father, Menzies was convinced at an early....

David Hockney: The Biography

By Christopher Simon Sykes(Hardback)

The first authorized biography of one of the past century's greatest and most influential artists. Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. Despite universally hard times, the seed of Hockney's imagination found fertile ground, at first being drawn to his father wielding a paintbrush while refurbishing bicycles and prams....

Still in the Game: A Biography of Steve Winwood

By Alan Clayson(Paperback / softback)

This biography was originally published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1988 as Back In The High Life. At the time there was only one other Winwood biography on the market, by Chris Welch. That is now out of print which, astonishingly, makes this fully updated version the only biography of Winwood. Scandalous considering the man's achievements. In addition to being....

Glenn Gould: Cartas Escogidas

By Glenn Gould(Paperback / softback)

With the publication of these letters, a wide range of Gould's artistic activities is presented. His letters, which concentrate on the creative life, provide a rare glimpse into how the man worked, suggesting why he devoted himself to music with such dedication and single-mindedness.

Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

By Kristen Johnston(Hardback)

The two-time Emmy Award winner presents a harrowing, hysterical, and beautifully written memoir as frank and revealing as Augusten Burroughs--with the humor and wit of David Sedaris.A celebrated and award-winning actress who is perhaps best known for the long-running TV show "3rd Rock from the Sun," for which she won two Emmys, Kristen Johnston has entertained audiences with her impeccable....

Selena: A Biography

By Skip Press(Hardback)

This concise yet authoritative overview of the life and career of Selena Quintanilla-Perez--better known as Selena--documents why she was perhaps the greatest Latina performer of the 1990s.....

Robert Rodriguez: Interviews

(Hardback)

Rogue filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968) rocketed to fame with his ultra-low-budget film El Mariachi (1992). The Spanish-language action film, and the making-of book that accompanied it, were inspirational to filmmakers trying to work with the most meager of resources. Rodriguez embodies the postmodern auteur, maintaining a firm control of his projects by not only writing and producing his films,....

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Robert Rodriguez: Interviews

(Paperback / softback)

Rogue filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968) rocketed to fame with his ultra-low-budget film El Mariachi (1992). The Spanish-language action film, and the making-of book that accompanied it, were inspirational to filmmakers trying to work with the most meager of resources. Rodriguez embodies the postmodern auteur, maintaining a firm control of his projects by not only writing and producing his films,....

Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Somer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor

(Hardback)

An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism - the life lessons and wisdom of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor, as gleaned from her remarkable life.

A Kind of Prayer: 100 Years of Wisdom from Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Holocaust Survivor

By Caroline Stoessinger(Paperback)

An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism - the life lessons and wisdom of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor, as gleaned from her remarkable life.

Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass

(Paperback / softback)

Best known for her long-running comic strip "Ernie Pook's Comeek," illustrated fiction ("Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me"), and graphic novels ("One! Hundred! Demons!"), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 1956) has branched out to incorporate plays, paintings, radio commentary, and lectures. With a combination of simple, raw drawings and mature, eloquent text, Barry's oeuvre blurs the boundaries between....

The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods

(Hardback)

"The Big Miss "is Hank Haney's candid and surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of the very few people allowed behind the curtain. He was with Tiger 110 days a year, spoke to him over 200 days a....

Your Dinner's Poured Out: Boyhood in the Twenties in a Dublin That Has Disappeared

By Paddy Crosbie(Paperback)

Dublin 1913 to 1930, a tumultuous and exciting time in the city's history. Paddy Crosbie catches that tumult and conveys that excitement in this childhood memoir of city life. A cast of brilliant characters surround the young Crosbie, all vividly etched into hilarious life. Here is a born storyteller.

Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story

(Paperback / softback)

Highlighting the burgeoning country music entertainment industry during the years from 1950 to 1980, this intimate biography explores the life and times of honky-tonk great Faron Young, also known as The Hillbilly Heartthrob and The Singing Sheriff.

Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India

By Smita Tewari Jassal(Paperback / softback)

This book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.