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All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernityby Marshall BermanISBN 067124602X (0-671-24602-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernity'Book summary:"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman.[via]The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the oldall have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux is possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.
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American Tabloidby James EllroyISBN 0679403914 (0-679-40391-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tabloid'Book summary:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.
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Beyond World's Endby Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary EdghillISBN 0671318551 (0-671-31855-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond World's End'Book summary:Beyond World's End continues Eric Banyon's tale in the Bedlam's Bard series. Sieur Eric, Knight and Bard to the court of the Queen of Elfhame Misthold, moves back to the Big Apple to take care of unfinished business. Most notably, he wants to finish his interrupted education at Julliard and settle down to a normal life.
As Eric says goodbye to his friends Kory and Beth, he settles into a new apartment and a rigorous schedule at Julliard. However, a normal life doesn't seem to be in his immediate future as he quickly discovers his apartment has unique features, including a living gargoyle named Greystone and four Guardians who have sworn to protect New York from evil. But the evil the Guardians are facing this time is something they haven't seen before.
Unscrupulous researchers have created a drug that briefly unlocks magical powers in a small percentage of the humans it's given to. Unfortunately, it also has a 100 percent mortality rate. But something evil from Underhill has other plans and seeks to use the temporary human powers to threaten the World Above. As Eric gets drawn into the fray, his past catches up with him and good grades become the least of his problems.
Beyond World's End, which takes place in the same universe as Lackey's SERRAted Edge series, combines human evil and magical evil in a compelling way that brings the characters into today's world. Eric is all grown up now and he's a wonderful hero. However, Beyond World's End feels like it's missing the last few chapters. So much time is spent on back-story and the physical setup of the novel that many characters and their stories are introduced only to be dropped with no explanation or resolution. What could have been a great book ends up being ultimately disappointing coming from these two excellent authors. --Kathie Huddleston [via]
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The Blindfoldby Siri HustvedtISBN 0671759531 (0-671-75953-1)
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Born Badby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679753362 (0-679-75336-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born Bad'Book summary:From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short storiessome never before publishedthat distill dread back down to its essenceand inject it straight into the reader's back brain. Andrew Vachss might have scissored his characters from today's headlines: a stalker prowling around an anonymous high-rise; a serial killer whose transgressions reflect a childhood of hideous abuse; an inner-city gunman who is willing to take out a blockful of victims in order to win a moment of acceptance.
Tautly written and endowed with murderous ironic spin, Born Bad plunges us into the hell that lies just outside our bedroom windows. [via]More editions of Born Bad:
Bottom of the Harborby Joseph MitchellISBN 0679600930 (0-679-60093-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Breath, Eyes, Memoryby Edwidge DanticatISBN 0679756612 (0-679-75661-2)
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The Burglar in the Closetby Lawrence BlockISBN 0671617044 (0-671-61704-4)
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kiplingby Lawrence BlockISBN 0671618318 (0-671-61831-8)
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The Burglar Who Studied Spinozaby Lawrence BlockISBN 0671624857 (0-671-62485-7)
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Butterfield 8by John O'HaraISBN 0679755802 (0-679-75580-2)
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The Caine Mutinyby Herman WoukISBN 0671604252 (0-671-60425-2)
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City of Godby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0679447830 (0-679-44783-0)
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City of the Deadby Herbert H. LiebermanISBN 0671222724 (0-671-22272-4)
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The Cold Six Thousandby James EllroyISBN 0679403922 (0-679-40392-2)
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Cop Haterby Ed McBainISBN 0671775472 (0-671-77547-2)
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Do the Right Thing: The New Spike Lee Jointby David Lee, Spike Lee, Lisa JonesISBN 0671682652 (0-671-68265-2)
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The Experience of Placeby Tony HissISBN 0679735941 (0-679-73594-1)
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The Fan Manby William KotzwinkleISBN 0679752455 (0-679-75245-5)
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoirby Vivian GornickISBN 0671657577 (0-671-65757-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Flood: Mississippi 1927by Andrew VachssISBN 0671619055 (0-671-61905-5)
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary Americaby Greg TateISBN 0671729659 (0-671-72965-9)
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Fodor's 97 Pocket New York City: What to See and Do If You Can't Stay Longby David LowISBN 0679032703 (0-679-03270-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's 98 New York Cityby David LowISBN 0679035125 (0-679-03512-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fodor's 98 New York City'Book summary:The best guide to New York City, updated every year
Parks, museums, and historic sites in all five boroughs
Theater, music, clubs, and the hottest nightlife
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Cosmopolitan hotels, large and small, plus B&Bs
Stylish restaurants and cozy cafés, bistros and brasseries, steak houses and fish houses, diners and delis
Fresh, thorough, practical--off and on the beaten path
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based on visits by savvy writer-residents
33 pages of maps--and dozens of unique features
Special chapter for families (what to see and where to eat, stay, and play)
Smart travel tips and important contacts
What's Where
Staying safe
Great Itineraries
Fodor's Choice
Pleasures & Pastimes
Background essays, further reading, and videos to watch
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Fodor's City Guide New Yorkby Moira Hodgson, Rima Suqi, Margaret Mittelbach, Mitchell Davis, Marilyn Appleberg, Matthew DebordISBN 0679032347 (0-679-03234-7)
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Fodor's Citypack New York City: A Complete Pocket Guide Plus a Full-Size Color Mapby Fodor'sISBN 0679004831 (0-679-00483-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fodor's Exploring New York Cityby Mick SinclairISBN 0676901808 (0-676-90180-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Fortunate Pilgrimby Mario PuzoISBN 067945778X (0-679-45778-X)
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Fragments of the Centuryby Michael HarringtonISBN 0671226533 (0-671-22653-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Girls in the Officeby Jack OlsenISBN 0671211560 (0-671-21156-0)
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Good Cop Bad Cop: Detective Joe Trimboli's Heroic Pursuit of Nypd Officer Michael Dowdby Mike McAlaryISBN 0671897365 (0-671-89736-5)
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Great Jones Streetby Don DelilloISBN 067972303X (0-679-72303-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930by Steven WatsonISBN 0679758895 (0-679-75889-5)
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The Harlem Renaissance in Black and Whiteby George HutchinsonISBN 0674372638 (0-674-37263-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Heaven Is a Playgroundby Rick TelanderISBN 0671666509 (0-671-66650-9)
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A History of Violenceby DC Comics StaffISBN 0671004662 (0-671-00466-2)
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Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Familyby Lis HarrisISBN 0671462962 (0-671-46296-2)
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The Hot Rockby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0671205412 (0-671-20541-2)
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I Pass Like Nightby Jonathan AmesISBN 067103426X (0-671-03426-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Pass Like Night'Book summary:When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant -- and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinction, Alexander Vine charts his destructive course -- and his struggle for redemption -- with startling, unadorned clarity. [via]
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I Pass Like the Nightby Jonathan AmesISBN 0679728570 (0-679-72857-0)
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In the Night Cafeby Joyce JohnsonISBN 0671701118 (0-671-70111-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Night Cafe'Book summary:Tom Murphy was raised in Hell's Kitchen, unwanted by his mother, deserted by his father. 35 years on, he is a painter who has abandoned a wife and two children in his turn. He is a damaged man when he meets Joanna, but for a brief time, love seems to be all that matters. [via]
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James Baldwin: The Legacyby Quincy TroupeISBN 0671676512 (0-671-67651-2)
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Joe Gould's Secretby Joseph MitchellISBN 0679601848 (0-679-60184-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Keep the Changeby Thomas McGuaneISBN 0679730338 (0-679-73033-8)
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The Keeping Quiltby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0671649639 (0-671-64963-9)
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The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0679602720 (0-679-60272-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Gentleman'Book summary:"The Last Gentleman is lovely and brilliant...a highly whimsical kind of picaresque tale that puts one in mind of both Faulkner and Camus," wrote Joyce Carol Oates when Walker Percy's novel was first published in 1966.
Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, and the meaning of contemporary life.
"The Last Gentleman is a fantastically intuitive report on how America feels to the touch," said Wilfrid Sheed. "Page-for-page and line-for-line this is certainly one of the best-written books in recent memory. As a Southern writer, Percy inherits the remains of a sonorous musical language. But beyond that, his unique point of view forms beautiful sentences like a diamond cutting glass." Alfred Kazin agreed: "Percy is a natural writer, downright, subtle, mischievous . . . a philosopher among novelists."
With a new Introduction by Robert Coles.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-
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The Lay of the Landby Richard FordISBN 0679454683 (0-679-45468-3)
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Making the Mummies Danceby Thomas HovingISBN 0671880756 (0-671-88075-6)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Artby Thomas HovingISBN 0671738542 (0-671-73854-2)
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
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Maus a Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Beginby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679729771 (0-679-72977-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Begin'Book summary:***WINNER OF THE 1992 PULIZTER PRIZE***Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Mausties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing take of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of family life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale-and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. [via]
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679739742 (0-679-73974-2)
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Memnoch the Devilby Anne RiceISBN 0679441018 (0-679-44101-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memnoch the Devil'Book summary:In Anne Rice's extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed. He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has. While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory. He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God. And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve. In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own. In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us--into the realms of our own theology. [via]
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The Met: One Hundred Years of Grand Operaby Martin MayerISBN 0671470876 (0-671-47087-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evilby John BerendtISBN 0679751521 (0-679-75152-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'Book summary:John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt's depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame. [via]
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Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: A Savannah Storyby John BerendtISBN 0679643419 (0-679-64341-9)
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Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locustby Nathanael WestISBN 067960278X (0-679-60278-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust'Book summary:"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,' " observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of
a society obsessed with mass-
produced fantasies foretold much
of what was to come in American life.
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry.
"The work of Nathanael West, savagely, comically, tragically original, has come into its own," said novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg. "A new public [has] discovered in the writings of West a brilliant reflection of its own sense of chaos and helplessness in a world running more to madness than to reason." [via]More editions of Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust:
Model Behaviorby Jay McInerneyISBN 0679428461 (0-679-42846-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Most of the Most of S. J. Perelmanby S. J. Perelman, Steve MartinISBN 0679640371 (0-679-64037-1)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman'Book summary:This book includes many of the greatest hits from 1930 to 1958--available only in this edition--by the devastatingly witty Perelman, the leading figure of The New Yorker magazine's golden age of humor and one of the most popular American humorists ever. In these hilarious pieces, the charmingly cranky Perelman turns his scathing attention to books, movies, New York socialites, the newspaper business, country life, travel, Hollywood, the publishing industry, and, last but not least, himself. His self-portrait: "Under a forehead roughly comparable to . . . Piltdown Man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence. . . . Before they made S. J. Perelman, they broke the mold." Sophisticated and supremely mischievous, Perelman is an acrobat of language who turns a phrase and then, before the reader has time to finish admiring his agility, turns it again. [via]
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Municipal Bondage: Comic Investigations and Essaysby Henry AlfordISBN 0679415092 (0-679-41509-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Museums in New Yorkby Fred W. McDarrahISBN 0671460706 (0-671-46070-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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New York City 2001 : Completely Updated Every Year, Color Photos and Pull-Out Map, Smart Travel Tips from A to Zby Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffISBN 0679005498 (0-679-00549-8)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collectionby Robert MankoffISBN 067103555X (0-671-03555-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection'Book summary:This 75th anniversary collection pulls together a variety of cartoonists ranging from James Thurber and his ever-battling sexes to Bruce Eric Kaplan and his modern urbans. Readers who are put off by The New Yorker's reputation for stodginess may be pleasantly surprised: a city lot offers Extreme Parking, and one of George Booth's crotchety old ladies urges a silent ogler to "Whistle, you dumb bastard!" There are plenty of sight gags and silly puns (a worried buffalo complains about his cell phone's roaming charges), but don't expect to get through without picking up on a literary reference or two. Roz Chast revisits Eloise at the Plaza hotel at the age of 46 and chronicles the Dialogues of Plato over what to have for lunch. And of course no New Yorker collection would be complete without the sly ghoulishness of Charles Addams. The perfect book for anyone who has ever flipped through a copy of The New Yorker just for the cartoons. --Ali Davis [via]
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Night Of Powerby Spider RobinsonISBN 0671559443 (0-671-55944-3)
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The Puttermesser Papersby Cynthia OzickISBN 0679454764 (0-679-45476-4)
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A Rage in Harlemby Chester B. HimesISBN 0679720405 (0-679-72040-5)
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For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundredsand then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a livingdisguised as a Sister of Mercyby selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.More editions of A Rage in Harlem:
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The Reformationby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671610503 (0-671-61050-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reformation'Book summary:The Story of Civilization, Volume VI: A history of European civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300-1564. This is the sixth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series. [via]
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Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964by Emily Bernard, Langston Hughes, Carl Van VechtenISBN 0679451137 (0-679-45113-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964'Book summary:When their correspondence began in 1925, Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was the nation's leading Caucasian enthusiast for African American culture, and Langston Hughes (1902-67) was a struggling poet who lived with his mother in Washington, D.C., and plaintively closed one letter, "Remember me to Harlem." Over the four-decade-long friendship that's captured engagingly in these warm, funny letters, Hughes would become more famous, and Van Vechten less so, but their mutual affection and respect only would deepen. Editor Emily Bernard, a professor at Smith College, sensibly decided to include only a fraction of the letters that the pair exchanged, but to print those in their entirety, so that readers might get a vivid sense of each man's personality. Van Vechten is lighthearted, flirtatious, gossipy, effusive in his appreciation for Hughes' writing, and frank when he finds it not to his taste. Despite his unflinching commitment to civil rights, he's considerably less political than Hughes, whose equally witty correspondence has an underlying seriousness that's commensurate with a personal history that's far more turbulent and painful than that of his affluent friend. They share a dislike for "uplift-the-race" sanctimoniousness and a zest for African American folk culture; their letters are rife with references to the music of Bessie Smith and other great blues singers, as well as to the many Harlem Renaissance artists who were their personal acquaintances. The correspondence also provides a sustained chronicle of the working writer's life: they swap news of assignments and story ideas; Van Vechten generously makes his book-publishing and magazine contacts available to Hughes; and the poet loyally defends his friend's controversial novel, Nigger Heaven, against its numerous detractors. Helpfully, everyone is identified in Bernard's copious footnotes, which make this a handy reference work, as well as a delightful record of an extraordinary relationship between two uniquely gifted figures in American letters. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Report from Engine Company 82by Dennis SmithISBN 0671785753 (0-671-78575-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Report from Engine Company 82'Book summary:Dennis Smith is a member of the busiest engine company in New York, one that averages 700 call a month. His firehouse is in the South Bronx, a community with more homicides, more drug traffic, and more prostitution per square mile than anywhere else in the United States. In Report From Engine Co. 82, Smith recreates a fireman's life as it has never before appeared in print. With him you climb the ladders into burning buildings, crawl Indian-fashion down treacherous halls through poisonous black smoke, knowing that the ceiling may fall or the floor collapse or a hidden explosive ignite. Alongside him, you watch friends die - and see lives saved with bare and blistered hands. Firemen never know what they'll meet when they respond to an alarm - a fire, a family quarrel, a hold-up, a homicide. Whatever the emergency, the fireman is prepared to handle it. [via]
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The Roosevelts: An American Sagaby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 0671652257 (0-671-65225-7)
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A Safe Place : The True Story of a Father, a Son, a Murderby Lorenzo CarcaterraISBN 0679402829 (0-679-40282-9)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 067960250X (0-679-60250-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Sitaby Kate MillettISBN 0671731696 (0-671-73169-6)
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Six Degrees of Separationby John GuareISBN 0679734813 (0-679-73481-3)
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Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0679724265 (0-679-72426-5)
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The Soul of a New Machineby Tracy KidderISBN 0679602615 (0-679-60261-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soul of a New Machine'Book summary:The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done--just look at today's news for reports of hard-driven, highly-motivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of Data General design and build a new 32-bit minicomputer in just one year. His thoughtful, prescient book, The Soul of a New Machine, tells stories of 35-year-old "veteran" engineers hiring recent college graduates and encouraging them to work harder and faster on complex and difficult projects, exploiting the youngsters' ignorance of normal scheduling processes while engendering a new kind of work ethic.
These days, we are used to the "total commitment" philosophy of managing technical creation, but Kidder was surprised and even a little alarmed at the obsessions and compulsions he found. From in-house political struggles to workers being permitted to tease management to marathon 24-hour work sessions, The Soul of a New Machine explores concepts that already seem familiar, even old-hat, less than 20 years later. Kidder plainly admires his subjects; while he admits to hopeless confusion about their work, he finds their dedication heroic. The reader wonders, though, what will become of it all, now and in the future. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Spirits White as Lightningby Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary EdghillISBN 0671318535 (0-671-31853-5)
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Sweet Liarby Jude DeverauxISBN 0671689746 (0-671-68974-6)
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The Thin Manby Dashiell HammettISBN 0679722637 (0-679-72263-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thin Man'Book summary:The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett's classic tale of murder in Manhattan, became the popular movie series with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and both the movies and the novel continue to captivate new generations of fans.
Nick and Nora Charles, accompanied by their schnauzer, Asta, are lounging in their suite at the Normandie in New York City for the Christmas holiday, enjoying the prerogatives of wealth: meals delivered at any hour, theater openings, taxi rides at dawn, rubbing elbows with the gangster element in speakeasies. They should be annoyingly affected, but they charm. Mad about each other, sardonic, observant, kind to those in need, and cool in a fight, Nick and Nora are graceful together, and their home life provides a sanctuary from the rough world of gangsters, hoodlums, and police investigations into which Nick is immediately plunged.
A lawyer-friend asks Nick to help find a killer and reintroduces him to the family of Richard Wynant, a more-than-eccentric inventor who disappeared from society 10 years before. His former wife, the lush and manipulative Mimi, has remarried a European fortune hunter who turns out to be a vindictive former associate of her first husband and is bent on the ruin of Wynant's family fortune. Wynant's children, Dorothy and Gilbert, seem to have inherited the family aversion to straight talk. Dorothy, who has matured into a beautiful young woman, has a crush on Nick, and so, in a hero-worshipping way, does mama's boy Gilbert. Nick and Nora respond kindly to their neediness as Nick tries to make sense of misinformation, false identities, far-fetched alibis, and, at the center of the confusion, the mystery of The Thin Man, Richard Wynant. Is he mad? Is he a killer? Or is he really an eccentric inventor protecting his discovery from intellectual theft?
The dialogue is spare, the locales lively, and Nick, the narrator, shows us the players as they are, while giving away little of his own thoughts. No one is telling the whole truth, but Nick remains mostly patient as he doggedly tries to backtrack the lies. Hammett's New York is a cross between Damon Runyon and Scott Fitzgerald--more glamorous than real, but compelling when visited in the company of these two charmers. The lives of the rich and famous don't get any better than this! --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.by Ron ChernowISBN 0679757031 (0-679-75703-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'Book summary:The patrician accent of George Plimpton (author of Truman Capote and The X Factor), with its edge of aristocracy and money, is perfectly suited for telling the rags-to-riches story of America's most famous businessman and philanthropist. Indeed, Plimpton seems to positively relish the superlatives that describe the life of John D. Rockefeller, who was far and away one of the most calculating, secretive, competitive, merciless, and talented figures ever to dominate the free market. Showing, early on, his keen attachment to hard work and keeping accounts, Rockefeller started out as an accountant in Cleveland. From there he went into the produce business, and then on to oil. By the time he was 31, he was the most powerful oil refinery owner in the world. His strategies for suppressing competition and controlling all aspects of the oil business while still paying attention to the smallest details make for dramatic listening in this well-documented and accessible narrative. Plimpton recounts how Rockefeller was the ultimate clutch player, calm in the face of adversity, a manager who was constantly searching for talented people and another way to grow Standard Oil into a megalithic modern corporation. Ultimately his rapacious business practices would make him head of the most powerful monopoly in America and the richest man in the world. Plimpton's engrossing reading of Titan brings out the human side of Rockefeller, a man of contradictions who was greedy yet giving, a capitalist villain and a do-gooder. A teetotalling Baptist, he began giving to charity when he was earning just a few dollars a week. As his wealth grew, so too his financial gifts. In the end, Rockefeller's philanthropic acts rivaled the precedents he set as a businessman. The oil baron died just short of his last goal--to reach the age of 100--but the indelible imprint he made on America's financial landscape will live on into the 21st century. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes) --A.E.D. [via]
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The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolutionby Gary B. NashISBN 0674930568 (0-674-93056-8)
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The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolutionby Gary B. NashISBN 0674930592 (0-674-93059-2)
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Was It Something I Saidby Valerie BlockISBN 0671025864 (0-671-02586-4)
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Washington Squareby Henry James, Elizabeth Hardwick, Library of American Art StaffISBN 0679732292 (0-679-73229-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington Square'Book summary:"Washington Square is perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced work comparable to Jane Austen's," said Graham Greene.
Inspired by a story Henry James heard at a dinner party, Washington Square tells how the rakish but idle Morris Townsend tries to win the heart of heiress Catherine Sloper against the objections of her father. Precise and understated, the book endures as a matchless social study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.
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The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcenturyby Mary F. CoreyISBN 0674961935 (0-674-96193-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury'Book summary:Today The New Yorker is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. A self-selected community of 250,000 readers, who wanted to know how to look and sound cosmopolitan, found in its pages information about night spots and polo teams. They became conversant with English movies, Italian Communism, French wine, the bombing of the Bikini Atoll, prêt-à-porter, and Caribbean vacations. A well-known critic lamented that "certain groups have come to communicate almost exclusively in references to the [magazine's] sacred writings." The World through a Monocle is a study of these "sacred writings."
Mary Corey mines the magazine's editorial voice, journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoons, and poetry to unearth the preoccupations, values, and conflicts of its readers, editors, and contributors. She delineates the effort to fuse liberal ideals with aspirations to high social status, finds the magazine's blind spots with regard to women and racial and ethnic stereotyping, and explores its abiding concern with elite consumption coupled with a contempt for mass production and popular advertising. Balancing the consumption of goods with a social conscience which prized goodness, the magazine managed to provide readers with what seemed like a coherent and comprehensive value system in an incoherent world.
Viewing the world through a monocle, those who created The New Yorker and those who believed in it cultivated a uniquely powerful cultural institution serving an influential segment of the population. Corey's work illuminates this extraordinary enterprise in our social history.
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The Worst Team Money Could Buyby Bob Klapisch, John HarperISBN 0679419756 (0-679-41975-6)
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