My Years At The Gotham Book Mart With Frances Steloff Proprietor
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My Years At The Gotham Book Mart With Frances Stelloff Proprietor
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Author : Howard Koch
language : en
Publisher: Worthy Shorts Inc
Release Date : 2009-09-11
My Years At The Gotham Book Mart With Frances Stelloff Proprietor written by Howard Koch and has been published by Worthy Shorts Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This short story was written in 1984 by one of Hollywood's finest screenwriters, until he was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1950. During the 1940s, he was responsible or partially responsible for such great films as The Letter, The Sea Hawk (both 1940), Sergeant York (1941) and Casablanca (1942), for which he shared an Oscar with his co-writers.
My Years At The Gotham Book Mart With Frances Steloff Proprietor
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Author : Matthew Tannenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Worthy Shorts Inc
Release Date : 2009
My Years At The Gotham Book Mart With Frances Steloff Proprietor written by Matthew Tannenbaum and has been published by Worthy Shorts Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Booksellers and bookselling categories.
The proprietor of the present "The Bookstore" in Lenox, MA, the author reflects on working early on at the legendary Gotham Book Mart on West 47th Street in New York City. He writes, "I am very fortunate to have found Frances Steloff, founder of The Gotham Book Mart, when I was a very young man, and she turned me into the bookman that I have since become. . . . to speak of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart is to remember the entire twentieth century in belles-lettres." Tannenbaum provides anecdotes and vignettes of Steloff as well as some of the many literary figures he met after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam war, including Tennessee Williams, Galway Kinnell, Anne Sexton, Archibald MacLiesh, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, J.D. Salinger ("a guy I almost tripped over one morning"). Steloff opened the Gotham in 1920, starting "a literary salon in the middle of New York City in the most wonderful time of its own history." Among those there: Martha Graham, Christopher Morely, Mencken and Dreiser, and Anais Nin. Steloff had her "battles with the censors, the court dates, the time she was actually arrested and only an 11th hour phone call to Bennett Cerf of Random House kept her out of prison." This charming memoir is enriched by the author's wonderment, drinking it all in with such memories as the weekend he "walked all over Manhattan . . . wearing e.e. cummings' fedora."
The Bookshop
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Author : Evan Friss
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2024-08-06
The Bookshop written by Evan Friss and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-06 with History categories.
"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are Magic An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost. Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand, Chicago’s Marshall Field & Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over the course of more than two centuries—including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who signed books at Marshall Field’s in 1944. The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life—and why we still need them.
Errand Into The Maze
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Author : Deborah Jowitt
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2024-01-30
Errand Into The Maze written by Deborah Jowitt and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the legendary dance critic Deborah Jowitt, Errand into the Maze is the definitive biography of the visionary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. “Deborah Jowitt chronicles a life passionately, artfully lived. An essential read about a true legend.” —Mikhail Baryshnikov In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique—primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body—that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what is now the oldest dance company in the country and produced nearly two hundred ballets, many of them masterpieces. And along the way, she engaged with the major debates, events, and ideas of the twentieth century, creating works that cut to the core of the human experience. Time magazine’s “Dancer of the Century,” and the first dancer and choreographer to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Graham was a visionary artistic force and an international cultural figure: hers was the iconic face of what came to be known as modern dance. From the renowned dance writer and former longtime critic for The Village Voice Deborah Jowitt, Errand into the Maze draws on more than a decade of firsthand research to deliver the definitive portrait of this titan. Beginning with Graham’s childhood in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and her early studies at the Denishawn School; weaving in her offstage adventures, including her relationship with her dancer and muse Erick Hawkins; and chronicling her retirement from dancing at age seventy-five and her remarkably productive final years, this elegant, empathetic biography portrays the artist in all her passionate complexity. Most important, Jowitt places Graham’s creations at the heart of her story. Her works, brimming with raw intensity, are intimately linked with their creator, who played the heroine in almost all that she choreographed: Joan of Arc, Jocasta, Clytemnestra, and Judith, among others. In this volume, Graham is centerstage once more, and Jowitt casts a brilliant spotlight on her life and work.
The Rise Of The Modernist Bookshop
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Author : Huw Osborne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
The Rise Of The Modernist Bookshop written by Huw Osborne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist era provided distinctive spaces of literary production that exceeded and yet never escaped their commercial functions. As the contributors show, these booksellers were essential institutional players in literary networks. When the eight shops examined first opened their doors, their relevance to literary and commercial life was taken for granted. In our current context of box stores, online shopping, and ebooks, we no longer encounter the book as we did as recently as twenty years ago. By contributing to our understanding of bookshops as unique social spaces on the thresholds of commerce and culture, this volume helps to lay the groundwork for comprehending how our relationship to books and literature has been and will be affected by the physical changes to the reading experience taking place in the twenty-first century.
Footnotes From The World S Greatest Bookstores
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Author : Bob Eckstein
language : en
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Footnotes From The World S Greatest Bookstores written by Bob Eckstein and has been published by Clarkson Potter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times Bestseller From the beloved New Yorker cartoonist comes a collection of paintings and stories from some of the world’s most cherished bookstores. This collection of 75 evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. The book features an incredible roster of great bookstores from across the globe and stories from writers, thinkers and artists of our time, including David Bowie, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Lethem, Roz Chast, Deepak Chopra, Bob Odenkirk, Philip Glass, Jonathan Ames, Terry Gross, Mark Maron, Neil Gaiman, Ann Patchett, Chris Ware, Molly Crabapple, Amitav Ghosh, Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, and many more. Page by page, Eckstein perfectly captures our lifelong love affair with books, bookstores, and book-sellers that is at once heartfelt, bittersweet, and cheerfully confessional.
James Joyce
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Author : E H Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1990-06-29
James Joyce written by E H Mikhail and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Night Thoughts
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Author : Robert Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-16
Night Thoughts written by Robert Fraser and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This pioneering biography of the British poet and translator David Gascoyne (1916-2001) candidly describes his creative work, involvement with surrealism, addictions, tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and France.
The Publishers Weekly
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language : en
Publisher:
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The Publishers Weekly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with American literature categories.
Publishers Weekly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Publishers Weekly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Publishers' catalogs categories.