Kalo Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 More Than Night: Film Noir and Its Contexts, by James Naremore Hey, that's the guy I interviewed for this show. He teaches here at IU; quite a jazz fan. Wow, I'm liking this guy more all the time. I just finished his The Magic World of Orson Welles, which is excellent, despite the off-putting title, which was foisted on him by the publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 More Than Night: Film Noir and Its Contexts, by James Naremore Hey, that's the guy I interviewed for this show. He teaches here at IU; quite a jazz fan. Wow, I'm liking this guy more all the time. I just finished his The Magic World of Orson Welles, which is excellent, despite the off-putting title, which was foisted on him by the publisher. You mean, you don't think it's a magic world??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Maybe a magic act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 I'm past the half way mark on Against the Day. Only 500 pages to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 (edited) The truce by Mario Benedetti, a major book that was written in 1959 that still rings true today. Edited April 11, 2007 by Van Basten II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Read a couple of short (but fine) pieces before going to sleep last night: Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O." and Steve Voce's "Don't Shoot - We're American!" from Reading Jazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Enjoying the first volume of 'Chroniques de la Montagne' by Alexandre Vialatte an excellent French writer who probably is unknown in non-French reading countries. Vialatte wrote almost daily chronicles for the central France newspaper 'La Montagne'. Love his style and his humor. An author for the 'happy few'! Vialatte also is known for translating Franz Kafka into French from 1933 on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Percival Everett's story: "The Fix" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 James Naremore also has a book on acting that I found in a local library. Titled "Acting In the Cinema" it has some very good chapters on Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted April 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 Thomas Merton, LEARNING TO LOVE: V. 6 OF THE JOURNALS, 1966-67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 (edited) Putting some order in my library I stumbled in this book: David Bordwell "The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960", a ponderous, but absolutely essential, reading for everybody seriously interested in Cinema. It was one of the texts at my History of Cinema courses at University. Warmly reccomended to every patient cinephile. Edited April 16, 2007 by porcy62 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Finished, for like the one hundredth time, my all-time favorite coffee table book: George T. Simon's Simon Says: The Sights And Sounds Of The Swing Era 1933 - 1955. It's a collection of a lot of his articles, interviews and reviews that he wrote for Metronome magazine. It really is a journey back in time and quite interesting. Of course, it's long OOP, but it comes up on Ebay every now and then, a couple of years ago I was able to get a copy in mint condition and it's traveled with me ever since. If you like the big band era, and kind of corny writing, this book is a goldmine. Just some excerpts from the book to give you a flavor: The famous 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert is headlined with this. Benny and cats make Carnegie debut real howling success. Shorthairs Shag, Longhairs Wag, Walls sag, as Goodman's gang transforms ancient hall into modern swing emporium. Love this from a review about Ellington at the Cotton Club: The Cotton Club draws many ickies who pester Ellington to play pop tunes that were hardly intended from him to attack. He plays them, and the fact that he plays them well enough to satisfy those ickies, and to draw there applause, should be added to the plus rather than to minus side when computing Duke's final score. Just very interesting to read these "you are there" accounts of historic jazz bands and figures. Highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Joe Boyd: White Bicycles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 Ross Feld's Shapes Mistaken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 (edited) Anybody read le Tombeau de Marot by Douglas R. Hofstadter, as i was doing some clean up, i found it and remembered the pleasure i had reading it. On another matter, currently reading Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team that Gave Birth to Modern Baseball By Burt Solomon. Edited May 1, 2007 by Van Basten II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz. I am sort of marking the recent death of Geertz by rereading some of his classic essays. I read about 1/3 of this book in grad school and decided to read all of it. I have to admit it is more of a slog now than it was then. I am sure this is partly because reading it on the train is hardly ideal for concentration, but I am just in a different place now and am not nearly as interested in grand or even middle-range social theory compared to where I was 5 or so years ago. I'm down to the last two chapters. Fortunately, these are some of the best in the book, dealing with thick description of Balinese customs. I'll be glad to get back to some light entertainment after this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BruceH Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 "Robert Cormier: Daring To Disturb the Universe" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 "Robert Cormier: Daring To Disturb the Universe" Biography? I was quite a fan as an adolescent. Right now: Gerald Clarke's Judy Garland bio, GET HAPPY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 "Robert Cormier: Daring To Disturb the Universe" Biography? I was quite a fan as an adolescent. Yes, a bio. I just happened to glance at it in a library and was fascinated because all I knew about him was that he was the guy who wrote The Chocolate War and I Am the Cheese. Turns out he wrote a lot more than that, and he was from Leominster, MA! What a surprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 (edited) The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great, by Andrew Chugg. A beautiful book. My fourth book about Alexander in a row. Edited May 7, 2007 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 Jonathan Lethem: You Don't Love Me Yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 A biography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockefeller center Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 A biography. What's wrong with biographies? I just finished Ronnie O'Sullivan's autobio which I found quite entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 Jack Kerouac - "On the Road" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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