Book Description
The radio program Vic and Sade was written by Paul Rhymer and broadcast from 1932-1944.
Author : Len Ayers
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780992476670
The radio program Vic and Sade was written by Paul Rhymer and broadcast from 1932-1944.
Author : John T. Hetherington
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476616051
Vic and Sade, an often absurd situation comedy written by the prolific Paul Rhymer, aired on America's radios from 1932 to 1944 (with short-lived revivals afterward). The title characters, known as "radio's home folks," were a married couple exploring the comedic side of ordinary life along with their adopted son and an eccentric uncle. This book examines the program's depiction of many aspects of American culture--leisure activities, community groups, education, films--in light of the critiques put forward by the era's critics such as William Orton. Vic and Sade offered its own subtle cultural critique that reflected how ordinary people experienced mass culture of the time.
Author : Eugene B. Bergmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476848823
Jean Shepherd (1921-1999), master humorist, is best known for his creation A Christmas Story, the popular movie about the child who wants a BB gun for Christmas and nearly shoots his eye out. What else did Shepherd do? He is considered by many to be the Mark Twain and James Thurber of his day. For many thousands of fans, for decades, “Shep” talked on the radio late at night, keeping them up way past their bedtimes. He entertained without a script, improvising like a jazz musician, on any and every subject you can imagine. He invented and remains the master of talk radio. Shepherd perpetrated one of the great literary hoaxes of all time, promoting a nonexistent book and author, and then brought the book into existence. He wrote 23 short stories for Playboy, four times winning their humor of the year award, and also interviewed The Beatles for the magazine. He authored several popular books of humor and satire, created several television series and acted in several plays. He is the model for the character played by Jason Robards in the play and movie A Thousand Clowns, as well as the inspiration for the Shel Silverstein song made famous by Johnny Cash, “A Boy Named Sue.” Readers will learn the significance of innumerable Shepherd words and phrases, such as “Excelsior, you fathead ” and observe his constant confrontations with the America he loved. They will get to know and understand this multitalented genius by peeking behind the wall he built for himself – a wall to hide a different and less agreeable persona. Through interviews with his friends, co-workers and creative associates, such as musician David Amram, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer, publisher and broadcaster Paul Krassner, and author Norman Mailer, the book explains a complex and unique genius of our time. “Shepherd pretty much invented talk radio ... What I got of him was a wonder at the world one man could create. I am as awed now by his achievement as I was then.” – Richard Corliss, Time magazine online
Author : Len Ayers
Publisher :
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2014-03-17
Category :
ISBN : 9780992476618
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1642 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : William F. Nolan
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Karin Roffman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429949805
The first biography of an American master The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery—the winner of nearly every major American literary award—reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of Ashbery during the twenty-eight years that led up to his stunning debut, Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Roffman shows how Ashbery’s poetry arose from his early lessons both on the family farm and in 1950s New York City—a bohemian existence that teemed with artistic fervor and radical innovations inspired by Dada and surrealism as well as lifelong friendships with painters and writers such as Frank O’Hara, Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Willem de Kooning. Ashbery has a reputation for being enigmatic and playfully elusive, but Roffman’s biography reveals his deft mining of his early life for the flint and tinder from which his provocative later poems grew, producing a body of work that he calls “the experience of experience,” an intertwining of life and art in extraordinarily intimate ways.
Author : Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science fiction
ISBN :
Author : Timo Airaksinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134831579
The Marquis de Sade is famous for his forbidden novels like Justine, Juliette, and the 120 Days of Sodom. Yet, despite Sade's immense influence on philosophy and literature, his work remains relatively unknown. His novels are too long, repetitive, and violent. At last in The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade, a distinguished philosopher provides a theoretical reading of Sade. Airaksinen examines Sade's claim that in order to be happy and free we must do evil things. He discusses the motivations of the typical Sadean hero, who leads a life filled with perverted and extreme pleasures, such as stealing, murder, rape, and blasphemy. Secondary sources on Sade, such as Hobbes, Erasmusm, and Brillat-Savarin are analyzed, and modern studies are evaluated. The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade greatly enhances our understanding of Sade and his philosophy of pain and perversion.