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Literary critic Shearman Waxx can kill a good book with just a few acidly worded bon mots. And as one unlucky author is about to discover, that’s not all he’s prepared to kill. . . .
From #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz comes a mesmerizing thriller about the battle of wills that ensues when a successful author and likable family man confronts a reclusive sociopath who wields an all-too-deadly poison
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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In her nearly quarter-century (1968-1991) reviewing films at The New Yorker, Pauline Kael became the most widely read, the most influential, the most powerful, and, often enough, the most provocative critic in America. Her passionate engagement with the work of a new generation of artists--and her ability to share her enthusiasm with a fresh, vernacular, and confrontational style--changed the face of film criticism. On the tenth anniversary of her...
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Language
English
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A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 80 movie reviews. In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to an underread content aggregator. His job is dreary routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film, free of the hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing on lousy movies for a website that no one reads, Noah smuggles into his reviews depictions...
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English
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"It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A.S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter on his mind. Sitting in the Brighton Royal Theater with Constable Twitten, Crystal intends to tell the detective the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. And yet, just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead...
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English
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In this memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. Beginning in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle, she grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, and took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who...
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 242
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
xx, 447 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 296
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xxi, 450 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
10) Antkind: a novel
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
705 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From a personal obsession with film, to an unorthodox mentorship with the legendary Pauline Kael, to establishing himself with the upstart Entertainment Weekly, Movie Freak is the memoir by veteran film critic Owen Gleiberman that will speak to anyone whose life has been changed by a great film.
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English
Description
An award-winning editor and film critic raises the curtain on the often-antagonistic partnership, which later transformed into genuine friendship, between Robert Ebert and Gene Siskel, whose signature "Two thumbs up!" would become the most trusted critical brand in Hollywood -- one that still lives on today.
20) Artfully yours
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Series
Duke undone volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Sparks fly between a lordly art critic and a lady forger in this enthralling Victorian historical romance. Nina Finch isn't suited for a life of crime. Raised by her art-forger brother, she can paint like Boticelli. But she'd so much rather be baking gooseberry tarts. She finally has the money she needs to open her own bakery. Unfortunately, her brother's carelessness lands her-and their forgeries-directly under the nose of London's most discerning...
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