Mamet pulls no punches in his art or in his politics. And as a former liberal who woke up, he will win over an entirely new audience of others who have grown irate over America's current direction.

Product Description: "Mamet remains American theater's most urgent five-letter word."—Guardian "The finest American author of his generation."—Sunday Mail "Mr. Mamet's talent for burying layers of meaning into simple, precisely distilled, idiomatic language can only be compared to Harold Pinter's...read more

Product Description: "One of the undeniably great playwrights of the baby boomer generation. . . . His zany recent lampoon Keep Your Pantheon showcases what is perhaps Mamet's most underrated gift: his Houdini-like ability to slip out of pigeonholes."-Los Angeles Times"School offers a textbook example of the style that made its author famous...read more

Product Description: For the past thirty years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. In some of the great movies and plays of our time, his characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system...read more

Product Description: Celebrations of Curious Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jay—raconteur, historian, and one of the world’s great sleight-of-hand artists—exposing a wonderful world of amusing and arcane knowledge. Adapted from his popular radio series “Jay’s Journal of the Air,” Celebrations of Curious Characters features one-page anecdotes of mind-bending performers (limbless jugglers, banjo-picking birds, Anglo-Texan saxophone-playing siamese twins) paired with engravings, mezzotints, and broadsheets from the author’s remarkable collection...read more

Product Description: American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries. From President Barack Obama to actress Julie Andrews; from basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to former First Lady and librarian Laura Bush and many others, stars of literature, politics, entertainment, and the public arena speak with Kniffel about the ways libraries have been critical in their lives...read more

Product Description: For years, David Mamet has given the world gripping drama, hilarious encounters, and unforgettable characters through his plays, films, and novels. Now he brings his trademark style to a whole new genre, with a laugh-out-loud comic collection that provides a clever and postmodern take on the world of superheroes and ordinary life...read more

Product Description: If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, “many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical.” As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theory...read more

Product Description: David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet confronts what he sees as an insidious predilection among some Jews to exclude themselves from the equation and to seek truth and meaning anywhere--in other religions, political movements, mindless entertainment--but in Judaism itself...read more

THE SPANISH PRISONER"Elegant, entertaining. . . . Mamet's craftiest and most satisfying cinematic puzzle." --The New York TimesTHE WINSLOW BOY"One of the most subtly compelling love stories of the year." --The New York ObserverPulitzer Prize winner David Mamet ranks among the century's most influential writers for stage and screen. His dialogue--abrasive, rhythmic--illuminates a modern aesthetic evocative of Samuel Beckett. His plots--surprising, comic, topical--have evoked comparisons to masters from Alfred Hitchcock to Arthur Miller. Here are two screenplays demonstrating the astounding range of Mamet's talents.         The Spanish Prisoner, a neo-noir thriller about a research-and-development cog hoodwinked out of his own brilliant discovery, demonstrates Mamet's incomparable use of character in a dizzying tale of twists and mistaken identity. The Winslow Boy, Mamet's revisitation of Terence Rattigan's classic 1946 play, tells of a thirteen-year-old boy accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and the tug of war for truth that ensues between his middle-class family and the Royal Navy. Crackling with wit, intelligent and surprising, The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy celebrate Mamet's unique genius and our eternal fascination with the extraordinary predicaments of the common man.

Product Description: 11m / Comedy In Keep Your Pantheon, an impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term "dying on stage...read more

As the presidential election approaches, incumbent Charles Smith is looking at all kinds of challenges to his reelection, with his approval ratings down, money running out, and the world on the verge of nuclear war, until inspired by his pardoning of a couple of Thanksgiving turkeys, he decides to risk it all to win back public support. Original.

Product Description: The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation...read more

Product Description: Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr...read more

A subversive, inside glimpse of the complex world of the film industry provides candid descriptions of every aspect of filmmaking, from initial concept, to script, to screen, covering topics that range from 'How Scripts Got So Bad' to 'Hollywood Manners,' as well as his personal choices for favorite actor, favorite film, and more. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines...read more

Product Description: Brigitte Lacombe: Cinema / Theater Brigitte Lacombe ranks among the most prominent photographers of the contemporary movie and theater scene in France and the US. Her black-and-white portraits of actors and directors, among them Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Roberto Rossellini, Robert de Niro, Arthur Miller, Gérard Depardieu, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Dustin Hoffman, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Adjani, Joseph Losey, to name but a few, bespeak a trust and familiarity between model and artist that is unique in today’s photography...read more

The father of a young son, a philosopher who has spent his life seeking to uncover the inner workings and meaning of the universe encounters a mysterious magus who challenges him to choose between the pride of intellect and the subjection of familial love, in a contemporary new version of the classic tragedy of Dr. Faustus. Original. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until he’s forced to choose between his friend’s sure hit and a beautiful girl’s art house project. During an evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers that the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems...read more

A challenging new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright imagines a future in which the internet crashes and the past must be reconstructed from the memories of Ginger, wife of ex-President Woodrow Wilson. Reprint.

A monumentally important scholar of Jewish spirituality and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright join forces to explore the meaning of the Bible in the modern world, focusing on the pentateuch. 20,000 first printing.

A fortune-teller's teasing rumination sends Edmond lurching into New York City's hellish underworld, his whole life abandoned in a searing quest for self-discovery and redemption.

Product Description: One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society...read more

Product Description: One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society...read more