A S Hamrah Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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writer and film critic • @thebafflermag, @bookforum, @nplusonemag, @harpers, etc. • member @NatSocFilmCrix • my book, The Earth Dies Streaming, link below

Burning Down the House
Jane Mendelsohn
Watching Succession reminds me of reading Jane Mendelsohn’s 2016 novel Burning Down the House. The sudden death of the mogul father, the son named Roman…
Paperback, 2017
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Depraved Indifference
Gary Indiana
Feb 4, 7pm @mcnallyjackson in Wburg, the great Gary Indiana and I discuss his sick novel of the long con, a tale of two grifters off to see the world: Depraved Indifference. ~Finally in print again!~ https://t.co/EoNQTOnNLA
Paperback, 2020
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2000-2018
A. S. Hamrah
Criterion curatorial director @_Ash_Clark shouts out my book The Earth Dies Streaming in his new newsletter. Thanks, Mr. Clark! https://twitter.com/_ash_clark/status/1548328520094343170
Paperback, 2018
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Music of Chance
Paul Auster
Check out this all-region Blu-Ray I did the commentary track on — Philip Haas’s The Music of Chance (1993), based on the Paul Auster novel, starring the lurid, the sly, the great James Spader. https://t.co/ZNVZqWZQfQ
Paperback, 1991
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Tesla: All My Dreams Are True
Michael Almereyda
Michael Almereyda’s book on writing and directing his film Tesla is out now and includes my interview with him from Aug 2020. An excellent study of screenwriting and history. https://t.co/6bOnwqIl8B
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hill of Beans: A Novel of War and Celluloid
Leslie Epstein
Tonight I'm doing a talk for @booksmithtweets with Leslie Epstein about his latest novel, Hill of Beans, a retelling of the making of Casablanca, which was written by his father and uncle, the twin screenwriters Philip and Julius Epstein. Register here: https://t.co/YXqd3BSaXi
Hardcover, 2021
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Cinema House and the World: The Cahiers Du Cinema Years, 1962-1981
Serge Daney
Here’s Greg Gerke on Serge Daney’s The Cinema House and the World (@SemiotextePress) and on how we (some of us) watch movies today. https://t.co/JoV69EQvSr
Hardcover, 2022
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
Bradley Garrett
Social geographer Bradley Garrett speaks with @HoosacInstitute in this interview about BUNKER, her doc feature that plays tomorrow night at @MovingImageNYC at 8. https://t.co/0gYyZV9zGa
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book