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Shooting Midnight Cowboy
Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations of the classic American Westerns High Noon and The Searchers now reveals the history of the controversial 1969 Oscar-winning film that signaled a dramatic shift in American popular culture.Director John Schlesinger's Darling was nominat...
Mark Harris
2022-10-26T00:50:53.000ZThe hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots....
Mark Harris
2022-06-26T02:23:46.000ZThis dazzlingly original work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world.The closest we’ve come to the destruction of all life on earth isn’t by nuclear holocaust. It’s not by...
Mark Harris
2021-07-06T23:21:06.000ZFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carré's new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019.The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement--especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with ...
Mark Harris
2021-04-10T01:16:25.000Z
So Many Ways to Lose
The Amazin' True Story of the New York Mets―the Best Worst Team in Sports
The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the worst, no team in sports has ever done it better than the Mets. In So Many Ways to Lose, author and lifelong Mets fan Devin Gordon sifts through the detritus of Queens for a baseball history like no other. Remember the time the Mets lost an All-Star a...
Mark Harris
2021-03-16T18:26:07.000ZWith iconic movies like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols was the most prominent American director during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism argues that he overhauled the style of psychological realism, and, in doing so, conti...
Mark Harris
2021-02-18T19:57:30.000Z
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA student...
Mark Harris
2021-02-18T01:44:37.000Z
Kill Switch
The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate is controlled by a party representing an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate. How did we get to this point?In Kill Switch, Adam Jentle...
Mark Harris
2021-01-27T18:49:43.000ZAlso recommended by
Matt Lieberman
Alright, Alright, Alright
The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
“Melissa Maerz’s brilliant oral history is the definitive account of a cult-classic movie that took a slow ride into the Seventies and defined the Nineties.” –Rob Sheffield, Rolling StoneThe definitive oral history of the cult classic Dazed and Confused , featuring behind-the-scenes stories from the cast, crew, and Oscar-nominated director Richard...
Mark Harris
2020-12-09T20:42:39.000ZA new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America.Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into ...
Mark Harris
2020-04-25T19:35:29.000ZThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Montgomery Clift by Patricia Bosworth