Last Words features extensive interviews with Christopher Nolan, Harmony Korine, Charlie Kaufmann, Nicolas Winding Refn, Wim Wenders, Michael Winterbottom, Christian Petzhold, and many others. Each interview is preceded by an overview of the director's work, and the volume's authoritative introductory essay explores the value of these directors and why they are rarely given an appropriate platform to discuss their craft.
Christian,” supposedly the parting shot of Casanova, of all people.8 There is controversy even about the all-but-sacrosanct wording, though not the sentiment, of Nathan Hale's universally known words pronounced under the gallows, ...
Famous Last Words traces a broad historical transition- from the 1840s to the 1980s- from the more rigid dichotomy of the Victorian novel, in which good women must marry and fallen women die, to the more open alternatives of twentieth ...
Markus Novak just wants to come home.
Veteran FBI Special Agent Mia Shields heads for the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, Maryland, when a depraved killer leaves the body of an unidentified woman, naked and completely encased in plastic wrap, on the backseat of the car ...
From the gritty glamour of Bondi Beach to the cold streets of London, here is a tale of tragedy and literary betrayal, of a publishing industry grappling with change and a great love drowning in guilt-wracked grief.
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time.
This collection of 700 quotes includes the last words of commoners, atheists, poets, and politicians along with noted Christians and martyrs. Ready reference source for the pastor or public speaker.
Still other poems are appreciations of music or the visual arts, as in “My Hand Placed on a Rubens Drawing”: The ages work toward mastery Of a single gesture.
Parallel narrative of a Holocaust survivor in 1942 and her granddaughter, who discovers her diary in present day.
Regine’s blog about living with Leukemia gained a huge following, and eventually became this book.