David Mamet: 42 books
The Old Religion
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
“Mamet’s intellectual rigor is evident on every page. There is not a wasted word” in this novel b****ased on the wrongful murder conviction of a Jewish man (Time Out).
In 1913, a young woman was found murdered in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. The investigation focused on the Jewish...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"Gripping. . . . Deep in its gut, Mamet's new play argues, everything in America-and this play throws in sex, rape, the law, employment and relationships-is still about race."-Chicago Tribune"A dramatist celebrated for introducing expletives to the American theatre now tackles a truly taboo four-letter...
The Secret Knowledge
On the Dismantling of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.
In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed worldview.
In...
Five Cities of Refuge
Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
In the ancient Jewish practice of the kavannah (a meditation designed to focus one’s heart on its spiritual goal), Lawrence Kushner and David Mamet offer their own reactions to key verses from each week’s Torah portion, opening the biblical text to new layers of understanding.
Here is a...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Anarchist [an/er-kist] n.1. A person who opposes the authority of the state.2. A person who causes disorder or upheaval.3. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s new play about one woman who is put away for life, and another who is committed to her rehabilitation. Students of Mamet won’t...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical." As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less...
The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy
Two Screenplays
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet ranks among the century's most influential writers for stage and screen. His dialogue--abrasive, rhythmic--illuminates a modern aesthetic evocative of Samuel Beckett. His plots--surprising, comic, topical--have evoked comparisons to masters from Alfred Hitchcock to...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
“The finest American author of his generation.” —Sunday Mail
“Viewed as an indictment of journalism or the law—take your pick—The Penitent is timely and exciting and, in the best of ways, awfully depressing.” —NBC New York
“David Mamet is an American theater icon for...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
"The finest American author of his generation."—Sunday Mail
This complex new work from celebrated playwright David Mamet revolves around a wealthy man, his young fiancée, and an airplane. The man has just bought a new plane as a wedding present for the girl. He intends to go into...
Five Television Plays (David Mamet)
A Waitress in Yellowstone; Bradford; The Museum of Science and Industry Story; A Wasted Weekend; We Will Take You There
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Five unique short plays for television by one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. A 'Waitress in Yellowstone' (or: 'Always Tell the Truth') is a parable about an honest waitress and a corrupt congressman. In Bradford, a new police chief arriving in a small New England town is plunged into the...
Keep Your Pantheon (and School)
Two Unrelated Plays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Best known for his precision-blade language and hot-button subject matter, David Mamet shows off a lighter side with his equally dexterous screwball comedy Keep Your Pantheon. Featuring an over-the-hill acting guru who lusts after both his toga-clad protégé Philius and a spot in the Sicilian Cork...
I tre usi del coltello
Saggi e lezioni sul cinema
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Questo libro, a metà strada fra l’autoritratto di un mostro sacro di Hollywood e il manuale per aspiranti cineasti, ha riunito per la prima volta in italiano i saggi del premio Pulitzer David Mamet. Sceneggiatore, regista, attore, produttore, drammaturgo, romanziere e perfino poeta, Mamet è una...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.
Mamet’s Faustus—like Marlowe’s and...
The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
As might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using...