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Browser's Ecstasy by Geoffrey O'Brien 9781582432458
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582432458Author Geoffrey O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
Arabian Nights of 1934 Geoffrey O'brien 9781949597271
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $30.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949597271Author Geoffrey O'brienFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher... -
Went Like It Came by Geoffrey O'Brien 9781953252876
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953252876Author Geoffrey O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint DOS Madres PressPublisher DOS... -
Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780472066834
Booksplease Price: $40.28In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. O'Brien... -
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780306807732
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.29Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis , these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties,... -
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780393312966
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.51In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in... -
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780312577148
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $36.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312577148Author Geoffrey O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher... -
Crime Novels of the 1960s: Nine Classic Thrillers (A Library of America Boxed Set) by Geoffrey O'Brien 9781598537390
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $115.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537390Author Geoffrey O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 1900Imprint The Library of... -
Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (LOA #371): The Fiend / Doll / Run Man Run / The Tremor of Forgery by Geoffrey O'Brien
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $52.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537383Author Geoffrey O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 950Imprint The Library of... -
Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370): The Murderers / The Name of the Game Is Death / Dead Calm / The Expendable Man / The Score by Geoffrey O'Brien
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $52.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537376Author Geoffrey O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 950Imprint The Library of... -
The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa by Evan Eisenberg 9780300099041
Booksplease Price: $54.05First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg... -
In a Mist by Geoffrey G. O'Brien 9781848613607
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"The spare, elegiac poems in Geoffrey O'Brien's new collection move at the borderline between actual memory and screen memory. I love their chiseled intimate strangeness. Reading them I discover... -
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $76.23More than 150 years after its initial publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations now enters its nineteenth edi tion. First compiled by John Bartlett, a bookseller in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a... -
The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad by Sean Wilentz 9780393328257
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $46.33Praised by Robbie Robertson of The Band as "a classic & a ticket to ride," The Rose & the Briar assembles an astonishing group of writers and artists: Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch,... -
The Nonconformist's Memorial: Poems by Susan Howe 9780811212298
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.91The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. How is a poet of language in history... -
I Would Prefer Not to: Essential Stories by Herman Melville
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $15.08In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first... -
Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 by Susan Howe 9780811213226
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.23Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret History of the Dividing Line (1978) that differ in some respects from their... -
More Classics Revisited by Kenneth Rexroth 9780811210836
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.22More Classics Revisited is the second volume of the late poet and polymath Kenneth Rexroth's brilliant, succinct analyses of some of the key documents in literary history. It presents East and West:... -
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Prof. Harold Bloom 9781573227513
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $46.52"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is... -
Miyazawa Kenji: Selections by Kenji Miyazawa 9780520247796
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.67The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. "Miyazawa Kenji:... -
The Best American Poetry 1995 by David Lehman 9780684801513
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.85The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise,... -
Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen
Booksplease Price: $44.84Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," to his... -
Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen 9780226112633
Booksplease Price: $79.36Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," to his... -
The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi 9780393928082
Booksplease Price: $34.04Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date-the first... -
Seinfeld, Masters of Its Domain: Revisiting TV's Greatest Show by David Lavery 9780826418036
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $56.51After a slow and inauspicious beginning, Seinfeld broke through to become one of the most commercially successful sitcoms in the history of television. It was named by TV Guide as "The Greatest Show... -
Olivier Assayas Kent Jones 9783901644436
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.78Over the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Desordre (1986) and such major works as L'Eau froide, Irma... -
Gondwana Nathaniel Tarn (New Directions) 9780811225021
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive landmass at the the end of the world while looking out at the ethereal... -
The Quarry: Essays by Susan Howe
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new "Vagrancy in the Park" (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential... -
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber 9781838858407
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.83'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much... -
The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot 9780199538867
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.56The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic... -
To Go Into the Words by Norman Finkelstein 9780472039418
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $58.04To Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen... -
Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary): (An Urban Bestiary) Peter Wortsman 9781885983596
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.31Ravens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickens in Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination and intellect in words and art by this father-daughter team. ... -
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $48.30Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of... -
My Beckett, My Howe, My Son: A Literary Memoir Michael Coffey 9781682196083
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.31Beckett's Children is a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation that probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe in search... -
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson 9781439194065
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $73.96Frank Capra called her, "The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known." Yet she was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Now Victoria Wilson, gives us the most complete... -
110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11 by Ulrich Baer 9780814799055
Booksplease Price: $190.20New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event... -
This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project by Eric Weisbard 9780674013445
Booksplease Price: $68.71A range of genres, rooted in local impulses, reaching global audiences; a main prop of commercial culture and an art form open to aspirants and fans from every background: About the vast and diverse... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.12Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11 by Ulrich Baer
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67Collected stories from renowned and emerging voices writing fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose in the aftermath of 9/11 New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride 9780231186445
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $175.46Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and...