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A collection of "deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest" essays on art, life, and politics by the acclaimed actor and playwright (Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn).Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the people who serve our food ... Read more

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A collection of "deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest" essays on art, life, and politics by the acclaimed actor and playwright (Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn).Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the people who serve our food
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Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)

by Wallace Shawn ...

• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton• Four star review in The Guardian• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into ... Read more

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• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton• Four star review in The Guardian• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into
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The Designated Mourner

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“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” –Time“Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times“In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . [Shawn] offers a definition of the self that should rattle the defenses of ... Read more

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“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” –Time“Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times“In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . [Shawn] offers a definition of the self that should rattle the defenses of
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Night Thoughts

by Wallace Shawn ...

This "acerbic yet compassionate" meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers "curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Beloved actor and Obie Award–winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched ... Read more

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This "acerbic yet compassionate" meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers "curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Beloved actor and Obie Award–winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched
... Read more
Grasses of a Thousand Colors

by Wallace Shawn ...

"Brilliantly upsetting and endearing . . . riveting."—NewsdayAn updated and revised edition of Wallace Shawn's most outlandish work to date.This poetic epic about a scientist, his wife, and his two mistresses as they fend for their lives in a world savagely close to extinction, raises issues of redemption, forgiveness, and responsibility. Grasses of a Thousand Colors is a troubling, erotic ... Read more

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"Brilliantly upsetting and endearing . . . riveting."—NewsdayAn updated and revised edition of Wallace Shawn's most outlandish work to date.This poetic epic about a scientist, his wife, and his two mistresses as they fend for their lives in a world savagely close to extinction, raises issues of redemption, forgiveness, and responsibility. Grasses of a Thousand Colors is a troubling, erotic
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As You Wish

Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

by Cary Elwes, Joe Layden ...

Narrated by Cary Elwes, Rob Reiner, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Chris Sarandon, Andy Scheinman, Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright0 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, ... Read more

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From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman,
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What We Did Before Our Moth Days

by Wallace Shawn ...

And so yes, well, I'd simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, I'd dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and down it had gone into the city's sewers, and no one ever saw it again.Set in a rather privileged world of intelligent and gentle people, a father, mother, son and the father's long-time mistress tell the intimate story of their lives. Wallace Shawn, a student of ... Read more

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And so yes, well, I'd simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, I'd dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and down it had gone into the city's sewers, and no one ever saw it again.Set in a rather privileged world of intelligent and gentle people, a father, mother, son and the father's long-time mistress tell the intimate story of their lives. Wallace Shawn, a student of
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Your Duck Is My Duck

Stories

by Deborah Eisenberg ...

Narrated by Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton ...

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront
... Read more

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Final Edition

by Wallace Shawn, Jonathan Schell, Mark Strand, Deborah Eisenberg ...

Final Edition is a one-issue-only political magazine written by people who are aesthetes and literary writers and edited by Wallace Shawn, who seriously believes that part of our national problem is that the people who run the country have a crude and minimal imaginative life and are too little acquainted with the quartets of Beethoven.The issue consists of five pieces:"Before the Election ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Final Edition is a one-issue-only political magazine written by people who are aesthetes and literary writers and edited by Wallace Shawn, who seriously believes that part of our national problem is that the people who run the country have a crude and minimal imaginative life and are too little acquainted with the quartets of Beethoven.The issue consists of five pieces:"Before the Election
... Read more
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Night Thoughts

An Essay

by Wallace Shawn ...

Narrated by Wallace Shawn ...

Unabridged

1 hour 48 min

In a gloomy hotel room, after reading compulsively about murders, Shawn tries to sleep but is troubled by meandering thoughts and memories that follow one another in an apparently random chain. Ultimately a point of view begins to emerge. In a world dominated by privileged killers, how should we live? What world do we want?Having recently passed the age of seventy, before which he found it ... Read more

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In a gloomy hotel room, after reading compulsively about murders, Shawn tries to sleep but is troubled by meandering thoughts and memories that follow one another in an apparently random chain. Ultimately a point of view begins to emerge. In a world dominated by privileged killers, how should we live? What world do we want?Having recently passed the age of seventy, before which he found it
... Read more
Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts

Two Plays

by Wallace Shawn ...

“[Our Late Night is] a short play, but a savage one...Neurosis, panic and sexual surreality underlie Shawn’s startling vision of New Yorkers at play.”—GuardianWallace Shawn’s OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, and was revived in London in 1999 under direction of Caryl Churchill. A Thought in Three Parts ... Read more

$11.99 USD

“[Our Late Night is] a short play, but a savage one...Neurosis, panic and sexual surreality underlie Shawn’s startling vision of New Yorkers at play.”—GuardianWallace Shawn’s OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, and was revived in London in 1999 under direction of Caryl Churchill. A Thought in Three Parts
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The Village of Ben Suc

by Jonathan Schell ...

With a new introduction by Wallace Shawn, a classic work of war reportage that describes, with unblinking vision, the systematic leveling of a Vietnamese village by American troops.In January 1967, as President Lyndon Johnson sent more forces to the war in Vietnam, the US military began what was to be the largest ground operation of the entire conflict. Not far from Saigon, the capital of South ... Read more

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With a new introduction by Wallace Shawn, a classic work of war reportage that describes, with unblinking vision, the systematic leveling of a Vietnamese village by American troops.In January 1967, as President Lyndon Johnson sent more forces to the war in Vietnam, the US military began what was to be the largest ground operation of the entire conflict. Not far from Saigon, the capital of South
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