Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
$17.99 Add to cartLos Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world–a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA, and Vanity… [more below]
- Author: Anolik, Lili
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 150112580X
- Language: English
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We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
$29.99 Add to cartJoan Didion opened The White Album (1979) with what would become one of the most iconic lines in American literature: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Today, this phrase is deployed inspi
- Author: Wilkinson, Alissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092610
- Language: English
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Self-Sabotage: And Other Ways I’ve Spent My Time
$28.00 Add to cartIn the vein of works by Gary Janetti and Danny Pellegrino, an honest, funny, and heartfelt memoir-in-essays about chasing your dreams, making big messes, and finding yourself along the way.
In in his d
- Author: Self, Jeffery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063328771
- Language: English
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Good Times, Ain’t We Lucky We Got ‘Em: Memoir of an American Sweetheart
$30.00 Add to cart“Norman Lear’s Good Times wasn’t just a television show-it reflected the times, a powerful narrative shaped by the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties and seventies, and a story of love, laughter, an
- Author: Stanis, Bernnadette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0977036170
- Language: English
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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
$29.99 Add to cartMerle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that “launched a thousand ships,” a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and f
- Author: Sen, Mayukh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050810
- Language: English
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Being Henry: The Fonz. . .and Beyond
$22.99 Read more- Author: Winkler, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1420519018
- Language: English
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Funny Because It’s True: How the Onion Created Modern American News Satire
$30.00 Add to cartDiscover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion.
In 1988, a band of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergrads and dropouts beg
- Author: Wenc, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0762484438
- Language: English
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Doom Guy: Life in First Person
$18.00 Read moreThe inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero―”a highly entertaining and thoughtful memoir” (Wall Street Journal)
After years in the gam- Author: Romero, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1419770179
- Language: English
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Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech
$32.50 Add to cartA sly and chatty collection of the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist’s most notorious celebrity profiles.
Shining a white-hot spotlight on America’s famous, from Hollywood legend
- Author: Dowd, Maureen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063392224
- Language: English
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Sergio Leone by Himself
$49.95 Add to cartCompiled writings and interviews from the director who pioneered the “spaghetti Western” film genre
Between the worldwide box-office success of his Dollars trilogy and his untimely death in April 1989
- Author: Frayling, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1909526967
- Language: English
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Kubrick: An Odyssey
$21.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.
The enigmatic and elu- Author: Kolker, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368760
- Language: English
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Never: The Autobiography
$30.00 Add to cart‘I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been l
- Author: Astley, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1035049392
- Language: English
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I See Myself: Musings and Memories of a Blessed Life
$22.00 Add to cartIn I See Myself, Joe Bonsall reflects on the contrasts and the crossroads of his life. From growing up in the inner city of Philadelphia to sitting on the front porch of his log home in rural Tennesse… [more below]
- Author: Bonsall, Joseph S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1956454837
- Language: English
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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
$16.99 Read moreWith laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child,… [more below]
- Author: Birbiglia, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1538701529
- Language: English
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The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin’s Priestess of Decadence
$22.95 Add to cartThe Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first contemporary biography of a notorious actor/dancer/poet/playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s.
In
- Author: Gordon, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1932595120
- Language: English
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
$19.00 Add to cartA mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more
Van Morrison’s Astr- Author: Walsh, Ryan H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735221367
- Language: English
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An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West
$19.99 Read moreFor all the West’s failings – terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few – it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he ex… [more below]
- Author: Kisin, Konstantin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1408716062
- Language: English
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David Lynch: A Retrospective
$39.99 Read moreAt once a pop culture icon, cult figure and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch’s work is primed to act on
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1786751275
- Language: English
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True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal — And How Nearly Dying Saved My Life
$16.99 Read moreIn this inspiring memoir, the star of Hercules shares the story of the sudden aneurysm and multiple strokes that left him incapacitated–but ultimately redefined his definition of success.
On televisi- Author: Sorbo, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 073821602X
- Language: English
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This Much Is True
$19.99 Read more‘There is no one on earth quite so wonderful’ STEPHEN FRY
‘As outrageously entertaining as you’d expect’ Daily Express
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabb- Author: Margolyes, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1529379903
- Language: English
