American Genius, A Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Genius, A Comedy write by Lynne Tillman. This book was released on 2019-02-01. American Genius, A Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grand and minute, elegiac and hilarious, Lynne Tillman expands the possibilities of the American novel in this dazzling read about a former historian ruminating on her own life and the lives of others--named a best book of the century by Vulture. In the hypnotic, masterful American Genius, A Comedy, a former historian spending time in a residential home, mental institute, artist’s colony, or sanitarium, is spinning tales of her life and ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair design, textiles, pet deaths, family trauma, a lost brother, the Manson family, the Zulu alphabet, loneliness, memory, and sensitive skin--and what “sensitivity” means in our culture and society. Showing what might happen if Jane Austen were writing in 21st-century America, Tillman fashions a microcosm of American democracy: a scholarly colony functioning like Melville's Pequod. All this is folded into the narrator's memories and emotional life, culminating in a seance that may offer escape and transcendence--or perhaps nothing at all. This new edition of a contemporary classic features an introduction by novelist Lucy Ives.
The Comedians
The Comedians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comedians write by Kliph Nesteroff. This book was released on 2015-11-03. The Comedians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal
Furious Cool
Furious Cool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Furious Cool write by David Henry. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Furious Cool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a rare glimpse into the life of an outrageously human, fearlessly black, openly angry and profanely outspoken comedic genius whose humble beginnings as the child of a prostitute helped shaped him into one of the most influential and outstanding performers of our time.
What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Would Lynne Tillman Do? write by Lynne Tillman. This book was released on 2014. What Would Lynne Tillman Do? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Features essays written by the author on different subjects, but often comes back to the questions what happens when men behave badly and when women behave too well.
Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy
Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy write by William Paul. This book was released on 1983. Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes the style and social themes of the comic films made in Hollywood by the director, Ernst Lubitsch
