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10 best books like 8 (Dustin Lance Black): Quills, Time Stands Still, The Motherfucker With the Hat, Enron, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans, Superman: The High-Flying History of the Man of Steel, Uncle Sam, Culture and the Death of God, The Best Man, Broadway Bound
| Author | Doug Wright |
| ISBN | 0822215314 |
The play recounts the imagined final days in the life of the Marquis de Sade.
Quills premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 1995 and subsequently had its debut Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. Quills garnered the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American...
| Author | Donald Margulies |
| ISBN | 1559363657 |
In his “absorbing intelligent” (Los Angeles Times) and timely new play, Donald Margulies uncovers the layers of a relationship between a photojournalist and foreign correspondent—once addicted to the adrenaline of documenting the atrocities of war, and now grounded in the couple’s Brooklyn...
The Motherfucker With the Hat
| Author | Stephen Adly Guirgis |
Addiction, pain, and explosive tempers are not exactly what you’d call the ingredients for a side-splitting comedy. Yet Steven Adly Guiguis has created a profane, hilarious masterpiece that earned a "hatful" of theatrical accolades in 2011, including a Drama Desk award for Outstanding Actor...
One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became reviled figures from the financial scandal of the century, with...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561635812 |
Nights of terror A city awash in blood New Orleans right after the First World War. The party returns to the Big Easy but someone looks to spoil it. Grocers are being murdered in the dead of night by someone grabbing their axe and hacking them right in their own cushy beds The pattern for each murder is the...
| Author | Larry Tye |
| ISBN | 1400068665 |
Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America's most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Satchel, " has written the first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators,...
| Author | Steve Darnall |
| ISBN | 1563894823 |
This is a very thought provoking book. I cannot understand why that this mini-series didn't get the attention that it deserved.This isn't a superhero book at all. It is about America and how we as a nation have forgotten what we are supposed to stand for. This book is brutally honest about both Sexism,Racism,...
Culture and the Death of God
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
| ISBN | 0300203993 |
New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why “authentic” atheism is so very hard to come by
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this...
| Author | Gore Vidal |
| ISBN | 0822215276 |
3.5⭐️.
| Author | Neil Simon |
| ISBN | 0452267188 |
Neil Simon was one of the first playwrights I loved, although it’s been years since I’ve read one of his plays.
While adult me enjoyed Broadway Bound, it didn’t grab me the way I remember his plays affected me as a teenager. Maybe it’s this particular play and the sole female character....
| Author | Studs Terkel |
| ISBN | 1595580433 |
Rambling, but charming, this is one of Terkel's autobiographical efforts. Written near the end of his life--he was 93--it ranges through the 20th and into the 21st century, celebrating not only the many, ordinary and extraordinary, who touched his life, but also the city of Chicago.
I was...
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
| Author | Roy Blount Jr. |
| ISBN | 0061808164 |
Bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the story of theclassic Marx Brothers wartime satire Duck Soup. As always, Blount isinformed yet informal, tongue-in-cheek yet tempered, providing the perfectvoice to recount the irreverent antics of Harpo, Chico, Groucho, and Zeppo. Readers of HarpoSpeaks,...
| Author | Michael A. Hiltzik |
| ISBN | 1439154481 |
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government’s role in Americans’ lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to...
| Author | Merlin Coverley |
| ISBN | 1904048617 |
Psychogeography. Increasingly this term is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from key lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Situationist Movement...
One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
| Author | Larry Flynt |
| ISBN | 0230105033 |
Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement. Woodrow Wilson’s girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor...
| Author | Charlene Spretnak |
| ISBN | 0807013439 |
I wouldn't normally pick this up but Jennifer Reif used it as a source for Mysteries of Demeter which I am reading.
Call # BL782.S66 1992
In this book, Spretnak claims that before northern "barbarians" invaded Greece, idyllic matriarchal civilizations worshipped Greek goddesses. Then...
| Author | Jonas Beiler |
| ISBN | 1416562982 |
An insider’s look into the events surrounding the nickel mines amish schoolhouse shootings—told by the counselor who was called upon to come to the farmhouse where the families met on that fateful day.
On October 2, 2006, Charles Roberts, a local milk-tank truck driver, bound and shot...
| Author | Sabrina Jones |
| ISBN | 1595585419 |
"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."
—Michelle Alexander
More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project,...
