“They must have amused each other – so similar were they, yet so different. If not for their overlapping fascination with amplification and musical instruments, they might not have become friends.” -from The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port (page 34) For my fourteenth birthday my father drove me to a music store on […]
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Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette (Simon & Schuster, $35)
“I didn’t lose the weight in order to write a book. I didn’t train myself to eat healthy in order to share my techniques with the world. I didn’t do it because the trips to the hospital scared me skinny. I did it because I wanted to give myself a few more chances to die […]
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Simon & Schuster, $35)
“David’s penchant for using real names and real-life stories in Seinfeld scripts, week after week, without any effort to conceal constructed a third dimension: There was reality; there was television; and there was Seinfeldia, where the elements of both comingled, passed through, and, as the show’s audience grew, enticed fans into feeling like this was […]
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden (Simon & Schuster, $32)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…The Princess Bride has aged remarkably well. I think this is in part because of the quality of the writing, the directing, and the wonderful ensemble of actors I had the sheer pleasure of working with.” -Cary Elwes Not many people are aware that the motion pictures The […]