The Age of Movies: Selected Writings

7 best books like The Age of Movies: Selected Writings (Pauline Kael): The Emperor's Children, Renegade, The Journal of Jules Renard, The White People and Other Weird Stories, Serenade, Rub Out the Words: The Letters, 1959-1974, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005

The Emperor's Children
AuthorClaire Messud
From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of...
Renegade
AuthorMark E. Smith
ISBN0670916749
Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the proper one’ Mark E. Smith Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music — odd, spare, cranky and circular — an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The...
AuthorJules Renard
ISBN0979419875
Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains largely undiscovered in the United...
AuthorArthur Machen
ISBN0143105590
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is...
AuthorJames M. Cain
ISBN0394725859
John Sharp had just flopped in Rigoletto, down in Mexico, when he first saw Juana. Somehow, the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute offered him a way back, a chance to rebuild his career in New York and Hollywood. But then, like the snake in the garden, Winston Hawes, the prodigiously accomplished...
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”
—Joan Didion

“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.”
—Jack Kerouac

Carefully edited from more than 1000 of his personal...
Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005
AuthorLuc Sante
ISBN1891241532
In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is “one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher...
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