NONFICTION
Released: June 2, 2011
"A Manichean analysis from a strident new voice from the Right—for liberals, something intended to ignite antagonism; for the like-minded, a buttress against the opposition."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning showman and "reformed Liberal" rants about the precarious state of the nation.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 6, 2007
"A sleek and hardboiled seminar on cinema's glorious highs and hellish lows."
The playwright/screenwriter/director/essayist (
The Wicked Son, Oct. 2006, etc.) presents lessons on the movie industry, seasoned with realism.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 10, 2006
"Mamet scolds and laments in this provocative addition to the Jewish Encounters series."
Playwright, novelist, filmmaker and essayist Mamet (
South of the Northeast Kingdom, 2002, etc.) angrily preaches an emphatic sermon to anti-Semites--Jewish anti-Semites in particular.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 8, 2002
"The National Geographic Directions series is proving to be a winner, not quaint but quirky. Mamet comes out swinging and singing, and the sense of place falls neatly in between. (Photographs)"
A sidelong, inferential portrait of Mamet's (
The Cabin, 1992, etc.) Vermont hometown, with a spirited indictment of American political perfidy and cultural poverty.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2001
"Well, folks, we're here to tell you—Wilson isn't even half-vast."
You'll want to clear your sinuses by renting a video of Glengarry Glen Ross or American Buffalo after wrestling with this unruly anti-novel by the noted playwright and remarkably unremarkable writer of fiction.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 1999
"And he is at his worst whenever he's dredging up fragmentary recollections of his youth or trying to play the philosopher."
A thin collection—in content as well as size—of essays from filmmaker, playwright, novelist, and he-man epigone Mamet (The Old Religion, 1996 etc.).
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