Tenth of december : stories / George Saunders. by Saunders, George, 1958-

What it means when a man falls from the sky / Lesley Nneka Arimah. by Arimah, Lesley Nneka

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Drinking coffee elsewhere / ZZ Packer. by Packer, ZZ

The Life & times of Allen Ginsberg / a film by Jerry Aronson ; editors, Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerry Aronson.

Hot money.

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Due considerations : essays and criticism / by John Updike. by Updike, John

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- To the eighth day/ Thornton Wilder -- To the golden west: Hollywood Stories/ Daniel Fuchs -- To Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems -- To elephant house, or, the home of Edward Gorey/ Kevin McDermott -- To Christmas at the New Yorker: stories, poems, humor, and art -- To the German catalogue of an exhibit of photographs by Ulrich Mack of the Ipswich marshes -- Monuments -- The great I am -- Big dead white man -- Down the river -- Oz Is us -- Hide and seek -- Thurber and White -- Introduction to the perennial edition of Is sex necessary? …”

In the words of E.B. White : quotations from America's most companionable of writers / edited by Martha White. by White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985

Table of Contents: “…. -- Landscape -- Language -- Leisure -- Letters -- Liberty -- Life -- Literature -- Love -- Loyalty -- Luck -- Maine -- Maine Speech -- Marriage -- Middle Age -- Miracles -- Moon -- Morning -- Nationalism -- Nature -- Newspapers -- New York City -- The New Yorker -- Nothing -- Passion -- Peace -- Photography -- Poets and Poetry -- Polls -- Pollution -- Possessions -- Prejudice -- Pseudonyms -- Public Speaking -- Quotations -- Railroads -- Rats -- Reading -- Religion -- Ross, Harold -- Sailing -- Science -- Sea -- Seasons -- Security -- Sex -- Skating -- Society -- Spelling -- Spiders -- Spring -- Style -- Summer -- Symbolism -- Taxes -- Telephone -- Television -- Terror -- Thoreau, Henry David -- Thurber, James -- Time -- War -- Weather -- Winter -- Words -- Work -- Worry -- Writing and Writers -- Youth -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.…”
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I am Cuba / Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos ; Gosudarstvenii Komitet po Kinematografii ; Francis Ford Coppola & Martin Scorsese present a film by Mikhail Kalatozov. Siberian mammoth / a film by Vicente Farraz. A film about Mikhail Kalatozov / directed by Mikhail Kalatozishvili.

Trembling before G-d Le-fanekha bi-reʻadah / [presented by] Simcha Leib Productions and Turbulent Arts in association with Keshet Broadcasting, Ltd. (Israel) in co-production with Pretty Pictures (Paris) and Cinephil, Ltd. (Tel Aviv) ; produced by Sandi Simcha Dubowski and Marc Smolowitz in creative collaboration with and edited by Susan Korda ; director/producer, Sandi Simcha Dubowski ; producer, Marc Smolowitz.

L'esquive / Rezo Films ; Jacques Ouaniche présente ; une production Lola Films/Noé Productions avec la participation de CinéCinéma ; un film de Abdellatif Kechiche ; producer, Jacques Ouaniche ; scénario, Abdellatif Kechiche ; adaptation et dialogues, Ghalya Lacroix, Abdellatif Kechiche ; un film produit par Jacques Ouaniche ; réalisation, Abdellatif Kechiche. by Kechiche, Abdellatif, Kechiche, Abdellatif, Lacroix, Ghalia

Uncovered : revolutionary magazine covers, the inside stories told by the people who made them / Ian Birch. by Birch, Ian

Policing the Police 2020 / PBS.

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Männer = Men / ein film von Doris Dörrie ; eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion der OLGA Film gmbh mit dem ZDF. by Dörrie, Doris, 1955-

Weekend / Comacico, Copernic, Lira Films and Ascot Cineraid.

Charlie Rose / produced by Charlie Rose, Inc., Thirteen WNET New York ; directed by Mike Jay.

60 Minutes. Sacred Ground / produced by Phil Shimkin.

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Publishing short stories / Tin Cat Media.

Table of Contents: “…Serendipity, the Muse, and Divine Intervention (5:03) -- Amy Tan: Voice and Narrative (3:34) -- Amy Tan: Inspiration and Muse (2:10) -- Amy Tan: Process and Place in Fiction (4:59) -- Finding Characters for Her Novel (8:42) -- Coincidences in Writing Her Novel (7:10) -- Writer's Logic and Coincidences (2:39) -- Meeting Publication Deadlines (4:05) -- Meaning and Muses in Tan's Novel (3:14) -- Marketing the Short Story (4:41) -- Submitting Stories for Publication (3:11) -- "The New Yorker"-Style Short Story (2:49) -- Handling Rejections as a Writer (3:12) -- Resources for Ideas and Submissions (2:07) -- Editors: Practices and Limitations (4:01) -- Trends in Short Story Writing (6:20) -- From Short Fiction to Novels (3:06) -- Differences in Writing Genres (2:43) -- Entering Writing Contests (2:23) -- Online Publishing and Editors (3:36) -- Two-Step Process for Publishing (4:17) -- How Editors Choose Stories (2:43) -- Ideal Length for a Short Story (3:55)…”
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Boy loses girl : Broadway's librettists / Thomas S. Hischak. by Hischak, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse -- Charley, Flora, Fiorello, and the Yankees : George Abbott and company -- The New Yorkers : the Fields family -- Flahooley's rainbow : E.Y. …”

Translocated modernisms : Paris and other lost generations / edited by Emily Ballantyne, Marta Dvořák, and Dean Irvine. by Dvorak, Marta

Table of Contents: “…6: Morley Callaghan as Literary "Heavyweight": Modernism, the New Yorker, and Contingencies of Cultural Value7: Relational Autobiographies: John Glassco, Authenticity, Sexuality, and the Lost Generation Memoir; 8: Malcolm Lowry's "Lost" Novel: From Paris Stories to Canadian Ashes to Archival Return; IV Intersections; 9: Sheila Watson's Paris Journals and the "Imminent Narrative"; 10: Equivocal Heaven: Paris, Toronto, and the Divine City in Wyndham Lewis and Sheila Watson; 11: "through the back door": Roy K. …”
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At night we walk in circles / Daniel Alarcon. by Alarcón, Daniel, 1977-