Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His latest books, The Fall of the House of Walworth and Early Autumn, were published in the summer of 2010. (February 2011)
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
February 10, 2011
Frank: The Voice
by James Kaplan
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A Night in the Mind of Boris
November 25, 2010
Boris Godunov an opera by Modest Mussorgsky, directed by Stephen Wadsworth
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The Grandest Duke
October 28, 2010
Duke Ellington’s America
by Harvey G. Cohen
The Duke Box Storyville, eight CDs, $79.98
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The Beauty of a Debacle
June 10, 2010
Creditors by August Strindberg, a production by the Donmar Warehouse, London, directed by Alan Rickman
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Giving Gogol His Head
April 29, 2010
The Nose an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, directed by William Kentridge
William Kentridge: Five Themes
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, February 24–May 17, 2010; the Jeu de Paume, Paris, July 5–September 26, 2010; the Albertina, Vienna, October 30, 2010–January 30, 2011; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, March 5–May 29, 2011; and the S
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Sparks of God
January 14, 2010
From the House of the Dead an opera by Leoš Janáček, staged by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
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The Glimmerglass ‘Traviata’
September 24, 2009
La Traviata an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Jonathan Miller
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When Hollywood Dared
July 2, 2009
Pre-Code Hollywood Collection: The Cheat/Merrily We Go to Hell/Hot Saturday/Torch Singer/Murder at the Vanities/Search for Beauty
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Three: Other Men’s Women/The Purchase Price/Frisco Jenny/Midnight Mary/Heroes for Sale/Wild Boys of the Road
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Our Nights Chez Rohmer
October 23, 2008
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon a film by Eric Rohmer
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A World of Saints and Gangsters
April 17, 2008
Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005
by Luc Sante
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A Northern New Jersey of the Mind
August 16, 2007
The Sopranos a television series created by David Chase
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The Jimmy Stewart Story
November 2, 2006
Jimmy Stewart: A Biography
by Marc Eliot
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Nightmare on the Prairie
September 21, 2006
Jenufa by Leos Janácek, directed by Jonathan Miller
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He Walked with a Zombie
March 9, 2006
The Val Lewton Horror Collection 9 films by Val Lewton
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures
by Alexander Nemerov
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‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’
December 15, 2005
Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
by Ken Emerson
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Cold Comfort
August 11, 2005
War of the Worlds a film directed by Steven Spielberg
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The Man in the Smoking Jacket
December 16, 2004
Cary Grant: A Biography
by Marc Eliot
Cary Grant: In Name Only
by Gary Morecambe and Martin Sterling
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Is It All Just a Dream?
August 12, 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 a film by Michael Moore
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Lear for Real
March 25, 2004
King Lear by William Shakespeare, directed by Jonathan Miller
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Fallen World
December 18, 2003
Mystic River a film directed by Clint Eastwood
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You Can’t Go Home Again?
July 3, 2003
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Unlocking the Cupboard
December 5, 2002
The Human Country: New and Collected Stories
by Harry Mathews
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Popcorn Park
June 13, 2002
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Hitchcock: The Hidden Power
November 15, 2001
Hitchcock et l’Art: Coïncidences Fatales (Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences) catalog of the exhibition edited by Dominique Païniand Guy Cogeval
The Hitchcock Murders
by Peter Conrad
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On ‘Sleepless Nights’
September 20, 2001
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Very Special Effects
August 9, 2001
A.I. a film by Steven Spielberg
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All the Luck in the World
March 8, 2001
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903å?1940 by Gary Giddins
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Seven Years in the Life
January 11, 2001
The Beatles Anthology
the Beatles
1 the Beatles
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The Triumph of Marxism
July 20, 2000
Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
by Stefan Kanfer
The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx
edited by Stefan Kanfer
Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers
by Simon Louvish
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Stompin’ at the Savoy
February 24, 2000
Topsy-Turvy a film directed by Mike Leigh
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Rock of Ages
December 16, 1999
Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977
by James Miller
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Burt Bacharach Comes Back
May 6, 1999
The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection compilation produced by Patrick Milligan
Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach executive producer, John Zorn
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The Last Shakespearean?
February 18, 1999
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom
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Silent Screams
December 17, 1998
Les Vampires (1915-1916) a film directed by Louis Feuillade
Irma Vep (1996) a film directed by Olivier Assayas
The Mystery of Irma Vep a revival of the 1984 production by Charles Ludlum, directed by and starring Everett Quinton. at the Westside Theatre, New York
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Child’s Play
July 16, 1998
Cymbeline of Music, June 3-6, and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., June 23-July 5, 1998 a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Adrian Noble. performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Brooklyn Academy
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Recapturing the American Sound
April 9, 1998
Anthology of American Folk Music compiled by Harry Smith
Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival
by Robert Cantwell
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity
by Richard A. Peterson
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Sein of the Times
August 14, 1997
Seinfeld: a television series by Jerry Seinfeld, by Larry David
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The Ghost at the Feast
February 6, 1997
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet film directed by Baz Luhrmann
Hamlet a film directed by Kenneth Branagh
Looking for Richard a film directed by Al Pacino
Twelfth Night a film directed by Trevor Nunn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tramway Theater, Glasgow, February 4-7; the Palais Résidence, Brussels, February 12-15; and the Cultural Center Belem, Lisbon, February 19-23 a play directed by Jonathan Miller. At the Almeida Theatre, London, through February 1, 1997; then the
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Magnificent Obsession
December 19, 1996
Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, restored by Robert A. Harris, by James C. Katz
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The Great Prose Painter
February 29, 1996
Winslow Homer October 15, 1995-January , 1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 21-May 26 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 20-September 2. an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,, Catalog of the exhibition by Nikolai Cikovsky Jr., by Franklin Kelly
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Whitman’s Revolution
October 19, 1995
Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography by David S. Reynolds
Complete Poetry and Collected Prose by Walt Whitman
Selected Letters of Walt Whitman edited by Edwin Haviland Miller
Constructing the German Walt Whitman by Walter Gründzweig
The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts
edited by Sam Abrams
The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman
edited by Robert K. Martin
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A Kinder, Gentler Perversity
November 17, 1994
Ed Wood directed by Tim Burton. Touchstone Pictures
The Violent Years
Jail Bait
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Bride of the Monster
Glen or Glenda (I Changed My Sex)
Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora directed by Ted Newsom
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Hide and Seek
November 3, 1994
Georges Perec: A Life in Words by David Bellos
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The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street
December 2, 1993
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Horror for Pleasure
April 22, 1993
Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau
Dracula directed by George Melford
Vampyr directed by Carl Dreyer
Freaks directed by Tod Browning
The Black Cat directed by Edgar Ulmer
I Walked with a Zombie directed by Jacques Tourneur
Curse of the Demon directed by Jacques Tourneur
Horror of Dracula by Terence Fisher
Black Sunday directed by Mario Bava
The Haunted Palace directed by Roger Corman
The Fearless Vampire Killers directed by Roman Polanski
The Conqueror Worm directed by Michael Reeves
Daughters of Darkness directed by Harry Kümel
Ganja and Hess directed by Bill Gunn
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre directed by Tobe Hooper
Suspiria directed by Dario Argento
The Brood directed by David Cronenberg
Fear No Evil directed by Frank Laloggia
Dead Ringers directed by David Cronenberg
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Blazing Passions
September 24, 1992
Red Sorghum directed by Zhang Yimou (1987)
Horse Thief directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang (1986)
The Big Parade directed by Chen Kaige (1985)
Yellow Earth directed by Chen Kaige (1984)
Raise the Red Lantern directed by Zhang Yimou (1991)
Fists of Fury directed by Lo Wei (1972)
Shanghai Blues directed by Tsui Hark (1984)
Peking Opera Blues directed by Tsui Hark (1986)
A Chinese Ghost Story directed by Ching Siu-ting (1987)
A Better Tomorrow directed by John Woo (1986)
Boat People directed by Ann Hui (1982)
Rouge directed by Stanley Kwan (1988)
Once Upon a Time in China directed by Tsui Hark (1991)
A Touch of Zen directed by King Hu (1975)
A Terra-Cotta Warrior directed by Ching Siu-ting (1990)
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Killing Time
March 5, 1992
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns by Jane Tompkins
Western Films: A Complete Guide
by Brian Garfield
Box-Office Buckaroos: The Cowboy Hero from the Wild West Show to the Silver Screen by Robert Heide, by John Gilman
The BFI Companion to the Western
edited by Edward Buscombe, forward by Richard Schickel
The Western edited by Phil Hardy
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The Return of Film Noir!
August 15, 1991
The Seventh Victim directed by Mark Robson
The Dark Mirror directed by Robert Siodmak
Desperate directed by Anthony Mann
The Street With No Name directed by William Keighley
Road House directed by Jean Negulesco
Follow Me Quietly directed by Richard Fleischer
Caught directed by Max Ophuls
Gun Crazy directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Panic in the Streets directed by Elia Kazan
The Underworld Story directed by Cyril Endfield
Try and Get Me directed by Cyril Endfield
The Narrow Margin directed by Richard Fleischer
On Dangerous Ground directed by Nicholas Ray
Pickup on South Street directed by Samuel Fuller
Human Desire directed by Fritz Lang
Kiss Me Deadly directed by Robert Aldrich
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The Ghost Opera
May 30, 1991
History of the American Cinema, Vol. 1: The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Charles Musser
History of the American Cinema, Vol. 2: The Transformation of Cinema: 19071915 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Eileen Bowser
History of the American Cinema, Vol. 3: An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 19151928 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Richard Koszarski
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, CrimeFilms of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
by Kevin Brownlow
Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative
edited by Thomas Elsaesser, edited by Adam Barker
Life to Those Shadows by Noël Burch, translated and edited by Ben Brewster
The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures by Christopher Rawlence
Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen
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The Sturges Style
December 20, 1990
Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges adapted and edited by Sandy Sturges
Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges
by James Curtis
Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges by Donald Spoto
Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges
edited and with an introduction by Brian Henderson
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Water Music
July 20, 1989
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Free Spirits
July 21, 1988
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges by James Harvey
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Grand Illusions
August 13, 1987
A Life in Movies: An Autobiography by Michael Powell
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Thoreau’s Book of Life
January 15, 1987
Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson Jr.
The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau edited and with commentaries by Robert Bly
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Metropolis, Enlarged
June 22, 2010
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In Strindberg's Exquisite Hell
May 4, 2010
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Industrial Lyricism in the Met's Hamlet
April 7, 2010
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The Persistent Pleasures of Eric Rohmer
January 19, 2010