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  • Great Books

    by David Denby ...
    ***NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “**A lively adventure of the mind...The tone of the prose...is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy, vigor, intellectual curiosity, and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative journalism.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAt the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Eminent Jews

    Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

    by David Denby ...
    Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life.They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then, they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a ... Read more

    Was $16.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Lit Up

    by David Denby ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author and critic investigates whether teens can be turned on to serious reading and what kinds of teachers can do it."Denby makes an impassioned case for the critical importance of books to the lives of young people." — The New York Times Book Review"[A] masterpiece… . . . Denby is especially astute in describing what it takes to c... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Do the Movies Have a Future?

    by David Denby ...
    In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the movies, once America’s primary popular art form, have become an endangered species. Do the Movies Have a Future? is a rousing and witty call to arms. In these sharp and engaging essays and reviews, New Yorker movie critic David Denby weighs in on “conglomerate aesthetics,” as embodied in the frenzied, weightless action spectacles that dominate ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Snark

    by David Denby ...
    What is snark? You recognize it when you see it -- a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her effectiveness. In this sharp and witty polemic, New Yorker ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Child of the Century

    by Ben Hecht ...
    Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after.“His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • American Sucker

    by David Denby ...
    A candid memoir of money, desire, and greed, from the author of Great Books.David Denby was a happy and content man living in New York City with a good job, a wife and two sons, and an Upper West Side apartment. But in 2000, he found himself channeling his anger and grief over his wife's decision to end their 18-year marriage into investing. Convinced that the only way to redeem his shattered life ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Eminent Jews

    Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

    by David Denby ...
    Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 33 min

    Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life. They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then, they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    American Sucker

    by David Denby ...
    Narrated by David Boutsikaris ...

    Abridged

    9 hours 22 min

    Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. ... Read more

    $23.07 USD

  • Audiobook

    Snark

    by David Denby ...
    Narrated by William Dufris ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 1 min

    What is snark? You recognize it when you see it—a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her effectiveness. In this sharp and witty polemic, New Yorker ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lit Up

    One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.

    by David Denby ...
    Narrated by William Dufris ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    A bestselling author and distinguished critic goes back to high school to find out whether books can shape livesIt's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. This indifference has become a grievous loss to our standing as a great nation--and a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    The Vanishing Neighbor

    The Transformation of American Community

    Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    A sweeping new look at the unheralded transformation that is eroding the foundations of American exceptionalism.Americans today find themselves mired in an era of uncertainty and frustration. The nation's safety net is pulling apart under its own weight; political compromise is viewed as a form of defeat; and our faith in the enduring concept of American exceptionalism appears increasingly ... Read more

    $29.99 USD