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Room to Dream
In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he’s faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition.
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![Lynch’s lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered personal reflections riff off biographical sections written by close collaborator Kristine McKenna and based on more than one hundred new interviews with surprisingly candid ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and colleagues in various fields who all have their own takes on what happened.
Room to Dream is a landmark book that offers a onetime all-access pass into the life and mind of one of our most enigmatic and utterly original living artists.
With insights into . . .
Eraserhead
The Elephant Man
Dune
Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Lost Highway
The Straight Story
Mulholland Drive
INLAND EMPIRE
*Twin Peaks: The Return
Praise for Room to Dream
“A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs . . . provides a remarkable insight into [David] Lynch’s intense commitment to the ‘art life.’ ” — The Guardian
“This is the best book by and about a movie director since Elia Kazan’s A Life (1988) and Michael Powell’s A Life in Movies (1986). But Room to Dream is more enchanting or appealing than those classics. . . . What makes this book endearing is its chatty, calm account of how genius in America can be a matter-of-fact defiance of reality that won’t alarm your dog or save mankind. It’s the only way to dream in so disturbed a country.” — San Francisco Chronicle](https://pub-1146fd6c5b9443ce8a2adde617e7847d.r2.dev/images/status/090ea113-3e87-4e94-ad2f-0fa834f29f12.jpeg "Lynch’s lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered personal reflections riff off biographical sections written by close collaborator Kristine McKenna and based on more than one hundred new interviews with surprisingly candid ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and colleagues in various fields who all have their own takes on what happened.
Room to Dream is a landmark book that offers a onetime all-access pass into the life and mind of one of our most enigmatic and utterly original living artists.
With insights into . . .
Eraserhead
The Elephant Man
Dune
Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Lost Highway
The Straight Story
Mulholland Drive
INLAND EMPIRE
*Twin Peaks: The Return
Praise for Room to Dream
“A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs . . . provides a remarkable insight into [David] Lynch’s intense commitment to the ‘art life.’ ” — The Guardian
“This is the best book by and about a movie director since Elia Kazan’s A Life (1988) and Michael Powell’s A Life in Movies (1986). But Room to Dream is more enchanting or appealing than those classics. . . . What makes this book endearing is its chatty, calm account of how genius in America can be a matter-of-fact defiance of reality that won’t alarm your dog or save mankind. It’s the only way to dream in so disturbed a country.” — San Francisco Chronicle")
Where's a good online marketplace to sell #usedbooks that is #NOTAmazon? Their Seller Central has become a little too complicated and I have a lot of former rentals my brother used in college which my mom had to purchase because he missed the return deadline. If it helps any, they are #history, #memoir, #christian, #theology, and some #fiction (editions published within the last decade). Also may sell some to local stores. #amazonalternatives @bookstodon
#BookReview The Ukrainian/Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky is described in the introduction this way:
“He was one of the few honest and uncompromised writers of the Soviet period. He managed not to join the Communist Party, to sign his name to any denunciation of another writer, or to sell out his talent to curry favour with Soviet officialdom.”
Earlier this year NYRB published this collection of the first three books of his memoirs in a new translation by Douglas Smith.
Nature and language may have been the two greatest loves of Paustovsky’s life; his descriptions of Kyiv in autumn, his love of being by the sea, and connection with poetry are marvelous.
Reading his eyewitness account of what Ukraine went through after WW1 during the civil war made me appreciate even more what the Ukrainian people have gone through during their traumatic history.
It’s impossible to describe all the riches …
#BookReview The Ukrainian/Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky is described in the introduction this way:
“He was one of the few honest and uncompromised writers of the Soviet period. He managed not to join the Communist Party, to sign his name to any denunciation of another writer, or to sell out his talent to curry favour with Soviet officialdom.”
Earlier this year NYRB published this collection of the first three books of his memoirs in a new translation by Douglas Smith.
Nature and language may have been the two greatest loves of Paustovsky’s life; his descriptions of Kyiv in autumn, his love of being by the sea, and connection with poetry are marvelous.
Reading his eyewitness account of what Ukraine went through after WW1 during the civil war made me appreciate even more what the Ukrainian people have gone through during their traumatic history.
It’s impossible to describe all the riches of the stories and writing this volume contains, a stunning book and unforgettable reading experience, I wanted it to go on for another 800 pages.
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
This vivid, explosive memoir shows “how the Chinese government keeps business in line—and what happens when business people overstep” (The New York Times) and is a “singular, highly readable insider account of the most secretive of global powers” (The Spectator).
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.
The Space Between the Stars
On love, loss and the magical power of nature to heal
A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts.
‘Part memoir, part requiem, part journalistic meditation on the natural world … Naidoo has penned a beautiful reflection on grief, and the unexpected pathway she took to overcome it.’
Review - The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya
An athlete at the center of gender controversy in women's running speaks out about her life and career in this fascinating book.
https://www.spiritblog.net/the-race-to-be-myself/
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Image - a Black person in the starting blocks of a race. Only legs and hands are visible
A FRESH, INSIGHTFUL, FUNNY and touching memoir by writer and activist Curtis Chin is a time machine back to his childhood and his family’s Detroit restaurant. Sharp observations on growing up gay and Chinese-American in the 1980s. B PLUS
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Notes from My Travels
Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
From the ever-intriguing and appealing actress Angelina Jolie comes the personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts in such countries as Sierra Leone and Tanzania, Pakistan and Cambodia.
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No Escape
The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs
A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China's repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
In this personal and illuminating memoir, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, Haise takes an introspective look at the thrills and triumphs, regrets and disappointments, and lessons that defined his career.
My Remarkable Journey
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change.
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Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity.
Here’s a typically sour but perceptive Wrey Gardiner quote. Almost every sentence in that book is an epigraph!
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BARBRA STREISAND’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY is as unique as its subject and her remarkable career. Lots of candor about her childhood and her professional life, very little gossip about her romantic life, a strong throughline of moral and artistic clarity. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-name-is-barbra-barbra-streisand/1108730905?ean=9780525429524
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