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Arts & Entertainment Arts & entertainment Robin Dreaming the Beatles: The by Dave Itzkoff Love Story of One Band and A portrait of Robin Williams that illuminates the Whole World his comic brilliance, conflicting emotions by Rob Sheffield and often misunderstood character, sharing The Rolling Stone columnist and best-selling insights into the gift orf improvisation that author of Love Is a Mix Tape presents an shaped his wide range of characters, his unconventional portrait of The Beatles that struggles with addiction and depression and explores why they are still so relevant in his relationships with friends and family. today's world. Bachelor Nation: Inside the The Destiny Thief: Essays on World of America's Favorite Writing, Writers and Life Guilty Pleasure by Richard Russo by Amy Kaufman Personal essays from the Pulitzer Prize- Presents an unauthorized, behind-the- winning author describes his broad interests scenes cultural history of the Bachelor and experiences, from an analysis on the franchise. value of Mark Twain, to accompanying a good friend on her pursuit of gender The Secret Lives of Color reassignment surgery. by Kassia St Clair The unforgettable, unknown history of All the Pieces Matter: The colors and the vivid stories behind them in a Inside Story of The Wire beautiful multi-colored volume. by Jonathan P. D. Abrams A definitive oral history of the iconic HBO crime drama features interviews with the production's actors, writers and directors and provides exclusive, behind-the-scenes takes on how the show was created, how it Sharp: The Women who Made addressed major world issues and how it is an Art of Having an Opinion establishing an influential legacy. by Michelle Dean From acclaimed literary critic Michelle Dean, Tyrant winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s by Stephen Greenblatt 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in A world-renowned Shakespeare scholar Reviewing, a powerful portrait of ten women explores the bard's insight into history's writers who managed to make their voices controversial, often mentally unstable, heard amidst a climate of sexism and rulers, illuminating how Shakespeare's nepotism, from the 1920s to the 1990s. plays reflected his investigations into the social causes, psychological roots and Unmasked: A Memoir twisted consequences of tyranny. by Andrew Lloyd Webber A memoir by the award-winning composer, Orwell on Truth producer and impresario of some of the by George Orwell most recognized musicals in theater history A collection of writings from across Orwell’s traces his half-century career. career. arts & entertainment Homey Don't Play That!: The Ursula K. Le Guin: Story of in Living Color and Conversations on Writing the Black Comedy Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin by David Peisner In a series of interviews with David Naimon, Engaging behind-the-scenes stories about Le Guin provides advice and guidance for the boundary-breaking sketch comedy show writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a draw on interviews with cast members, chance to sound off on some of her avf orite writers, producers and network executives subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the to celebrate its enduring influence on natural world, and what, in her opinion, comedy, race relations and the careers of makes for great writing. some of today's biggest stars. Black Ink: Literary Legends on Being Wagner: A Larger-than- the Peril, Power, and Pleasure life Biography of a Short Man of Reading and Writing by Simon Callow by Stephanie Stokes Oliver Richard Wagner's music dramas have never Spanning 250 years, a collection highlights been more popular or more divisive. A man the hard-won literary progress of black who spent most of his life in abject poverty, people in America, who were once forbidden inspiring both critical derision and hysterical by law to learn how to read, with essays hero-worship, Wagner was a walking from Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, contradiction: belligerent, flirtatious, Booker T. Washington, Maya Angelou and disciplined, capricious, demanding, many more. visionary, and poisonously anti-Semitic. The Vanity Fair Diaries: Sticky Fingers: The Life and 1983-1992 Times of Jann Wenner and by Tina Brown Rolling Stone Magazine The irreverent diaries of the author's by Joe Hagan celebrated years as editor-in-chief of Vanity A portrait of the iconic founder of Rolling Fair also serves as a vibrant portrait of the Stone magazine draws on personal 1980s in New York and Hollywood, documents and letters to include coverage describing her summons from London in the of his ambiguous sexuality, reinvention of hopes of saving Condé Nast's troubled youth culture and influence on innumerable periodical and her experiences within the extraordinary lives. cutthroat world of glamour magazines. Improv Nation: How We Made Wild Things: The Joy of a Great American Art Reading Children's Literature by Sam Wasson As an Adult A sweeping history of the uniquely American by Bruce Handy art form of improv, which has never been A nostalgic ramble through classic children's more popular—from its beginnings during literature by a Vanity Fair contributing editor the McCarthy Era through the rise of such explores the stories of forefront authors and institutions as Second City, the Groundlings illustrators while revealing the wisdom that and the Upright Citizens Brigade and such can be found in masterpieces ranging from performers as Tine Fey, Steve Carell and Bill The Cat in the Hat and Charlotte's Web to Murray. Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Sherwood Public Library 22560 SW Pine St Sherwood, Oregon 97140-9019 | 503-625-6688 www.sherwoodoregon.gov/library.
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