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  • Three Uses of the Knife

    On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

    by David Mamet ...
    The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Secret Knowledge

    On the Dismantling of American Culture

    by David Mamet ...
    David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed worldview.In 2008 Mamet wrote a hugely controversial op-ed for the Village Voice, "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Disenlightenment

    Politics, Horror, and Entertainment

    by David Mamet ...
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment. David is a special man and talent. Get his book, NOW!" — President Donald TrumpOne of America's greatest living literary legends invites you think for yourself in this compelling narrative of manipulation, power, and the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Some Recollections of St. Ives

    A Novel

    by David Mamet ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross comes Some Recollections of St. Ives**, a masterful novel masquerading as the memoir of Charles Hollis—a fictional man whose life spanned continents and conflicts, culminating in a decades-long tenure at one of America’s most storied institutions: The St. Ives School.**Written in the final years of Hollis’s life, Some Recollecti... ... Read more

    $26.09 CAD

  • The Wicked Son

    Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews

    by David Mamet ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesAs might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder—the child who asks, “What does this story mean to you?” ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Oleanna

    A Play

    by David Mamet ...
    In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations

    Two Plays

    by David Mamet ...
    David Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross.The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Wilson

    A Consideration of the Sources

    by David Mamet ...
    A "curiously compelling" novel by the Pulitzer prize–winning playwright in which the internet crashes and the past is reconstructed from memories. ( Publishers Weekly)When the Internet—and the collective memory of the twenty-first century—crashes, the past is reassembled from the downloaded memories of Ginger, wife of ex-President Wilson. The transcripts take the reader on an intellectually ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everywhere an Oink Oink

    An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

    by David Mamet ...
    Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his “smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful” (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • True and False

    Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

    by David Mamet ...
    One of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. Acting schools, “interpretation,” “sense memory,” “The Method”—David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Theatre

    by David Mamet ...
    If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical." As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theory. For Mamet, either actors are good or they are non ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Five Television Plays (David Mamet)

    A Waitress in Yellowstone; Bradford; The Museum of Science and Industry Story; A Wasted Weekend; We Will Take You There

    by David Mamet ...
    Five unique short plays for television by one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. A 'Waitress in Yellowstone' (or: 'Always Tell the Truth') is a parable about an honest waitress and a corrupt congressman. In Bradford, a new police chief arriving in a small New England town is plunged into the midst of its cozy secrets and uncovers the truth behind his predecessor's mysterious fatal hunting ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD