Sam Adams Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Sam Adams on XWriter, @SlateCulture. Member @NYFCC | @NatSocFilmCrix | @WGAEast Thinking about movies and cities.

Living: The 7 Blessings of Human Experience
Simrana remake of my favorite* Kurosawa is the last thing I’d want to see, but glad I listened to @davidlfear/ @TABULA4 and made time for LIVING, a lovely, lyrical gloss on IKIRU with great performances by Bill Nighy and Aimee Lee Wood. Pair with LAST FLIGHT HOME for added 😭 #Sundance
Hardcover, 2022
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Underground: My Life with Sds and the Weathermen
Mark Rudd32 SOUNDS’ room-tone montage is a bit of a speed round for past Sam Green docs. What’s up, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND’s Mark Rudd? #Sundance
Paperback, 2013
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Asteroid City
Wes AndersonI wrote about how ASTEROID CITY, which just had the biggest weekend of Wes Anderson's career, is a skeleton key that unlocks his entire body of work https://t.co/ASmryGzHBZ
Hardcover, 2023
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Asteroid City
Wes AndersonWes Anderson's ASTEROID CITY is out on digital today. It might be his strangest and most complicated movie, but if you can figure out how to read it, it unlocks new meaning in his entire body of work. https://t.co/ASmryGzHBZ
Hardcover, 2023
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes
Stephen Sondheimeight months after ordering it I finally have my copy of Finishing the Hat, and my god, the gems just spill with every sentence. Two from page 1: “Poetry is an art of concision, lyrics of expansion”; “Noël Coward, a writer whose lyrics I cordially but intensely dislike…”
Hardcover, 2010
$60.00Member price:$35.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Succession: Season One: The Complete Scripts
Jesse Armstrongfor some reason despite knowing about the crossover I have only just put together that the best Black Mirror episode was written by Succession's Jesse Armstrong
Paperback, 2023
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway
William Goldman@jondmaas @BCDreyer @sarahw @Helen_E_Shaw I just read William Goldman’s The Season and it’s very clear that year there was Plaza Suite and then there was everything else on Broadway
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Sundance
D. B. Knighta remake of my favorite* Kurosawa is the last thing I’d want to see, but glad I listened to @davidlfear/ @TABULA4 and made time for LIVING, a lovely, lyrical gloss on IKIRU with great performances by Bill Nighy and Aimee Lee Wood. Pair with LAST FLIGHT HOME for added 😭 #Sundance
Paperback, 2019
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author
Victor S. Navasky@mattzollerseitz I wanted to find a place in this for the moment in The Wes Anderson Collection where he talks about nicking a story from Victor Navasky’s Naming Names for The Life Aquatic, but there was too much to fit in
Paperback, 2003
$36.00Member price:$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Greil Marcus@rocking_bob @prodnose I’ve never seen this but Greil Marcus put it on the Lipstick Traces soundtrack
Paperback, 2009
$33.50Member price:$16.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book