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Books by David Denby
  | | Do the Movies Have a Future?(Reprint) by David Denby Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2013 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9948-7, ISBN: 1-4165-9948-7 "Received as an important work of one of our most important film critics, Do the Movies Have a Future? draws from a selection of the New Yorker writer’s published pieces over a dozen years to examine the art, business, and future of the movies.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 ..." |
 | | Snark A Polemic In Seven Fits by David Denby Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2010 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9946-3, ISBN: 1-4165-9946-0 "• An acclaimed and thoughtful author: David Denby has been writing insightful film reviews since the 1970s. Formerly a columnist for The Atlantic and New York magazine, he has been with The New Yorker for the past decade. His nonfiction account of Western literature, Great Books , has been praised for its intelligence and breadth of scope..• A biting polemic on the cultural tone of today: Snark tells the story of that nasty combination ..." |
 | | Lit Up(Reprint) One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives. by David Denby Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador Paper ISBN-13: 978-1-250-11703-8, ISBN: 1-250-11703-8 "“[A] masterpiece . . . Denby is especially astute in describing what it takes to capture teenagers’ attention. . . . [A] wonderful book.” ---The Huffington PostIt’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. Seeing this indifference as a grievous loss, bestselling author and distingu ..." |
 | | Lit Up One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives. by David Denby Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Henry Holt And Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-9585-2, ISBN: 0-8050-9585-3 "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 personal loss, too, for millions of teen ..." |
 | | American Sucker(Reprint) by David Denby Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Back Bay Books ISBN-13: 978-0-316-15928-9, ISBN: 0-316-15928-X "In this Bracingly Honest, Page-Turning Memoir, what begins as a manic money chase-desperate to hang on to his home after his marriage breaks up. David Denby realizes he can buy out his wife's share only if he can first make a killing in the stock market-ultimately becomes an unforgettable encounter with such eternal issues as envy, love, death, sanity, and happiness. American Sucker is a singularly compelling tale of the high-tech bubbl ..." |
 | | GREAT BOOKS(Reprint) by David Denby Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1997 by Simon & Schuster Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83533-4, ISBN: 0-684-83533-9 "Paperback. Pub Date :1997-09-29 Pages: 492 Language: English Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt the age of forty-eight. writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces - the great books - that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books. he leads us o ..." |
 | | Do the Movies Have a Future? by David Denby Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Simon & Schuster Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9947-0, ISBN: 1-4165-9947-9 "The New Yorker critic, one of our most important film writers draws from a selection of his published pieces over a dozen years to examine the art, business, and future of what used to be America’s primary popular entertainment and is now an endangered species.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 ..." |
 | | Snark, It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our conversation(1st Edition) by David Denby Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9945-6, ISBN: 1-4165-9945-2 "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" critic and bestselling author David Denb ..." |
 | | American Sucker(1st Edition) by David Denby Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Little, Brown And Company ISBN-13: 978-0-316-19294-1, ISBN: 0-316-19294-5 "In 2000, the bottom dropped out of David Denby's life when his wife announced she was leaving him. To make matters worse, it looked like he might lose their beloved apartment in the split. Determined to hold onto his home and seized by the "irrational exuberance" of the stock market, Denby joined the investment frenzy with a particular goal: to make $1 million in one year so he could buy out his wife's share of their home. Denby gathere ..." |
 | | Great Books(1st Edition) by David Denby Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 1996 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-684-80975-5, ISBN: 0-684-80975-3 "At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby, dissatisfied with his life within the media bubble, went back to Columbia University and took again the two famous courses in Western classics (Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization) required of all students--courses he first took in 1961. In recent years, collections of literary and philosophical masterpieces such as those taught in these courses have been reviled by the ..." |
 | | This Has Happened(1st Edition) An Italian Family in Auschwitz by Piera Sonnino, Ann Goldstein, David Denby, Mary Doria Russell Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan Trade ISBN-13: 978-0-230-61399-7, ISBN: 0-230-61399-3 "Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account is strikingly accurate in bringing to life the methodical and relentless erosion of the freedoms and human dignity of the Italian Jews, from Mus ..." |
 | | A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht, David Denby Paperback, 680 Pages, Published 2020 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-25179-1, ISBN: 0-300-25179-3 "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 interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named ..." |
 | | Awake in the Dark(1st Edition) An Anthology of American Film Criticism, 1915 to the Present by David Denby Paperback, 391 Pages, Published 1977 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72194-1, ISBN: 0-394-72194-2 "An Anthology of American Film Criticism, 1915 to the Present David Denby ... dead young soldiers after battle; the dark, slow movement of the Union Army away from the camera, along a valley which is quartered strongly between hill- shadow ..." |
 | | Great Books by David Denby 496 Pages, Published 2013 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-2715-5, ISBN: 1-4391-2715-8 "For permission to reprint copyrighted material, grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers and translators: Excerpts from The Iliad of Homer ( Lattimore, trans.); Oedipus the ... used by permission of Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. Excerpts from The ... Alan Ritter and Julia Conaway Bondanella, editors, and from The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition, Robert C. Tucker, editor, us ..." |
 | | Snark by David Denby 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-1008-9, ISBN: 1-4391-1008-5 "Like the editors of Spy, many of its writers come from outside New York, but, once they hit the city, despite their journalistic ambitions, they become the latest version of Manhattan party kids clamoring for a little attention— and getting it, in this ..." |
 | | American Sucker by David Denby Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-101906-2, ISBN: 0-14-101906-9 "In early 2000 the bottom dropped out of the life of writer David Denby when his wife decided to leave him. Propelled to make some money quickly, and seized by the irrational exuberance' of the stock market, then approaching its peak, Denby enthusiastically joined the investment frenzy. Over the next few months he listened raptly to bullish stock analysts, dreamy hi-tech gurus and boastful heads of companies. He plunged into a season of ..." |
 | | Agee on Film(Updated) Criticism and Comment on the Movies (Modern Library the Movies) by James Agee, David Denby, Martin Scorsese Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2000 by Modern Library ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75529-3, ISBN: 0-375-75529-2 ""In my opinion, [Agee's] column is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today."--W. H. AudenJames Agee was passionately involved with the movies throughout his life. A master of both fiction and nonfiction, he wrote about film in clean, smart prose as the reviewer for Time magazine and as a columnist for The Nation. Agee was particularly perceptive about the work of his friend John Huston and recognized the artistic ..." |
 | | This Has Happened An Italian Family in Auschwitz by Piera Sonnino, Ann Goldstein, David Denby, Mary Doria Russell Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by St. Martin's Press Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-7508-9, ISBN: 1-4039-7508-6 "Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered one year ago in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account is strikingly accurate in bringing to life the methodical and relentless erosion of the freedoms and human dignity of the Italian J ..." |
 | | Solidarity(Reprint) The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980-1981 (Msh) by Alain Touraine, Jan Strzelecki, Prof Michel Wieviorka, François Dubet, David Denby, Franã§Ois Dubet, Touraine J., David J. Denby Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1984 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-27595-8, ISBN: 0-521-27595-4 "This 1983 book records a fascinating analysis of the Solidarity movement in Poland. Alain Touraine here proposes an understanding of the place of social movements in contemporary society, and a fresh means of analysing them through 'sociological intervention'. In 1981 he and a team of researchers applied these research methods to the Solidarity movements. Groups of Solidarity activists were involved in a discourse over the nature and ai ..." |
 | | Jacob's Room(Reprint) (Signet Classics) by Virginia Woolf, David Denby Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Signet Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-451-52665-6, ISBN: 0-451-52665-1 "With its publication in 1922, Virginia Woolf revolutionized the modern novel with Jacob's Room. Based on the life of her own brother, this unforgettable book chronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders, from childhood to his death in World War I. An untraditional tale focusing on a flow of random impressions through the minds of its characters, Jacob's Room remains an important work in the development of the novel form-and a shining ..." |
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