Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century
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DescriptionThe Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness. In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time.
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
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Metropole (New California Poetry)
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Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
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Dream Time
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Columbus Dispatchtesting turns tables on rapistFranklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien didn't, and the results confirmed that Dumas was indeed the rapist, according to paperwork O'Brien filed in court yesterday. In the absence of a cheek swab, O'Brien had tracked down an old blood sample from Dumas