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Sam Adams Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Writer, @SlateCulture. Member @NYFCC | @NatSocFilmCrix | @WGAEast Thinking about movies and cities.

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Book Cover for: Living: The 7 Blessings of Human Experience, Simran

Living: The 7 Blessings of Human Experience

Simran
Sam AdamsSam Adams

a 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
Book Cover for: Underground: My Life with Sds and the Weathermen, Mark Rudd

Underground: My Life with Sds and the Weathermen

Mark Rudd
Sam AdamsSam Adams

32 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
Book Cover for: Asteroid City, Wes Anderson

Asteroid City

Wes Anderson
Sam AdamsSam Adams

I 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
Book Cover for: Asteroid City, Wes Anderson

Asteroid City

Wes Anderson
Sam AdamsSam Adams

Wes 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
Book Cover for: Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, Stephen Sondheim

Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes

Stephen Sondheim
Sam AdamsSam Adams

eight 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)
Book Cover for: Succession: Season One: The Complete Scripts, Jesse Armstrong

Succession: Season One: The Complete Scripts

Jesse Armstrong
Sam AdamsSam Adams

for 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
Book Cover for: The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway, William Goldman

The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway

William Goldman
Sam AdamsSam Adams

@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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Book Cover for: Sundance, D. B. Knight

Sundance

D. B. Knight
Sam AdamsSam Adams

a 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
Book Cover for: Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author, Victor S. Navasky

Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author

Victor S. Navasky
Sam AdamsSam Adams

@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
Book Cover for: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Greil Marcus

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

Greil Marcus
Sam AdamsSam Adams

@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