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It's 1912 in Hollywood, the birth of the Movies, and Mabel Normand, the talented prototype of the contemporary comedienne, is shocking the world. Mabel Normand -- the visionary who turned Charlie Chaplin into a movie star, enchanted Mack Sennett, and...
Part urban history, part thriller, part character study, this mesmerizing novel delves into the young life experiences of William James, the seminal nineteenth-century American thinker whose ideas have so profoundly influenced American thought. After...
Considers what happened in the life of foremost nineteenth-century American psychologist William James in the months after he suffered a devastating mental collapse, in a story that takes him to the side of street urchins in New York, where he works ...
This wicked satire of the Hollywood film industry chronicles the efforts of screenwriter Elmo Zwalt to get his just-completed and very good script produced. He wants to direct it, as does every director who wants to gross a $100 million domestic...