Woody Allen: A Biography

7 best books like Woody Allen: A Biography (Eric Lax): No One Here Gets Out Alive, Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), The Code of the Woosters, The Way Things are, This Is Orson Welles, Scorsese on Scorsese, Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

No One Here Gets Out Alive

Author	Danny Sugerman
ISBN	0446697338

Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography...

Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Author	Immanuel Kant
ISBN	0521599628

This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar...

The Code of the Woosters

Author	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	0393339815

No one weaves a plot like Wodehouse. Also, if you have a cow creamer, guard it with your life.

The 2012 re-read:
Aunt Dahlia dispatches Bertie to Totleigh Towers to purlorn a silver cow creamer coveted by his uncle Tom from Sir Watkyn Basset. Unfortunately, Bertie has his work cut out for...

The Way Things are

Author

Lucretius

ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)

When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...

This Is Orson Welles

Author

Orson Welles

Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent...

Scorsese on Scorsese

Author	David Thompson
ISBN	0571178278

This book is filled with insights on Marty's filmmaking process. When I started reading this book, I decided to watch his films along the way. It was a slow but very fulfilling experience! While one may not like all of his films, one would still gain certain appreciation for these films having read his...

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

Author	Stefan Kanfer
ISBN	0375702075

This definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest comedians unflinchingly yet affectionately uncovers the man behind the cigar.

Here is the amazing career of the man the world recognized as Groucho: the improbable disasters of the vaudeville years; the Marx Brothers, an act so...