Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights: Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, et al. by Stella Adler

On August 31, 2012, in Art & Photography, Book Reviews, Entertainment, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

Her new book, brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, brings together her most important lectures on America’s plays and playwrights, the giants of the twentieth century, men she knew, loved, and worked with.

New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families – Essays by Colm Toibin

On June 12, 2012, in Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

From Jane Austen’s aunts to Tennessee Williams’s mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literature’s greatest works. Tóibín, celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays, and currently the Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia, traces and interprets those intriguing, eccentric, often twisted family ties in New Ways to Kill Your Mother.

Jackson Pollock – A Biography Of An American Icon by Evelyn Toynton

On February 26, 2012, in Art & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous “drip paintings,” he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire—the role that made Marlon Brando famous.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram

On February 3, 2012, in Art & Photography, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come, and transforming the American literary landscape forever.