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  A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

  by David Foster Wallace

  This exuberantly praised--and uproariously funny--first collection of nonfiction pieces by one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time--the author of "Infinite Jest"--"reconfirms Mr. Wallace's stature as one of his generation's preeminent talents" ("New York Times") 5-city author tour. Print ads .
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  The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

  by Jennifer Lynch

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  Lost Highway

  by David Lynch, Barry Gifford

  From the very first moments of David Lynch's debut film, Eraserhead, it was clear that a distinctive new director had arrived. The unique TV series Twin Peaks that no one has been able to duplicate placed him straight into our living rooms. No one sees the world like Lynch, and after seeing Lost Highway, his latest film, the world will never be the same again.
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  David Lynch: Paintings & Drawings

  by David Lynch

  The first major collection of artwork by the acclaimed movie director David Lynch. Spanning a period of forty years, David Lynch's widely respected films and television series include Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway , and Mulholland Drive . However, his prolific visual art production, which began even before his films, has rarely been seen. This catalogue of his artistic... (more)
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  Lynch on Lynch

  by David Lynch

  David Lynch is one of the most original and distinctive film-makers of contemporary cinema - best known for "Twin Peaks", "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at Heart". This book presents the career of cinema's greatest surrealist, told in his own words.
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  The Impossible David Lynch (Film and Culture)

  by Todd McGowan

  Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd nature of normality itself. Hollywood is often criticized for distorting reality and providing escapist fantasies, but in Lynch's movies, fantasy becomes a means through which the viewer is encouraged to build a... (more)
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  Strange World of David Lynch: Ironic Religion from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr.

  by Eric G. Wilson

  Anyone who has sat through the dark and grainy world of Eraserhead knows that David Lynch's films pull us into a strange world where reality turns upside down and sideways. His films are carnivals that allow us to transcend our ordinary lives and to reverse the meanings we live with in our daily lives. Nowhere is this demonstrated better than in the opening scene of Blue Velvet when our worlds are literally... (more)
• Reel Conversations: Candid Interviews With Film's Foremost Directors and CriticsGeorge Hickenlooper

  

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  Reel Conversations: Candid Interviews With Film's Foremost Directors and Critics

  by George Hickenlooper

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  True History of the Elephant Man

  by Michael Howell, Peter Ford

  Joseph Carey Merrick, born in England on August 5, 1952, is better known as The Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take no more. Hounded, persecuted and starving, he ended up at London’s Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued, housed and fed... (more)
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  Indigo Vertigo

  by Indigo Vertigo

  The story explores the psychological breakdown and breakthrough of a single character through a sequence of hallucinatory scenes.
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  Images

  by David Lynch

  A collection of the controversial film director's private paintings, photographs, and fiction, made public here for the first time, offers a new glimpse into the disturbed, perverse imagination behind such movies as Blue Velvet. 15,000 first printing.