Showing results for "Das Talent" in Literature & Fiction

Hollywood Wives meets A Visit from the Goon Squad in this captivating Hollywood drama, an “utterly alive, dazzlingly brilliant, and so true-to-life” (Andrew Lipstein, author of Last Resort) emotional debut novel unraveling the secrets, struggles, and fierce rivalries of actresses navigating...

Anna Brisker, a once promising student, has fallen behind. Her PhD on inspiration is overdue, and instead she busies herself with power-eating strawberry Pop-Tarts and watching as her doctoral peers fly off to take posts at prestigious universities. Alone over the holidays, Anna strikes up an unexpected and life-changing friendship. But what can Helen Langley, a middle-aged antiquarian bookbinder, have in her possession that might unlock Anna’s thesis and her chronic inertia? And what laws will Anna break to get it? 

Yegor could not imagine his future works, but he could see distinctly how the papers would talk of him, how the shops would sell his photographs, with what envy his friends would look after him.

Sean Wellington is a neurotic music video director who was just given the opportunity of a lifetime: to direct his first feature film. In the midst of this celebration, comes a tumultuous breakup with his girlfriend as his neurosis looms overhead while he tries to reorganize his personal and professional lives. A Talent for Trouble is the story of Sean’s battle to balance real-life romance while living through a camera lens.

Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate. By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life...

Mitchell Irwin isn’t the sort of a man who believes in second chances. Once upon a time, this respected Shakespearean actor sold his soul to Hollywood in exchange for fame and fortune. Ignoring a warning to be careful what you wish for, he has become a cynical, world-weary celebrity searching for escape from rumors of another scandal. He finds sanctuary in a remote little fishing village populated by artists, poets, and fishermen who don’t know who he is.

Know, O prince, that before the years when texters sank into open man holes and the rise of the sequels of Lucas, there was an Age undreamed of, when glittering Kingdoms lay spread across the world like cracker crumbs after a sneeze. Hither came Titanicus the Barbarian, blonde haired, blue eyed, battle axe in hand, a fighter, arm wrestler, small of wit but having great hair, understanding few jokes but laughing at them anyway, to tread the golden thrones of the world under his flip flopped feet. Let me tell you of the days of mid to high adventure.