Frontline. Whose vote counts / PBS.

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New York Stories : the Best of the City Section of the New York Times. by Rosenblum, Constance

Table of Contents: “…Rain, Rain, Come Again; The Agony of Victory; Street Legal, Finally; Time Out; Wild Masonry, Murderous Metal and Mr. Blonde; Part III New Yorkers; Love's Labors; Ballpark of Memory; The Paper Chase; The War Within; Uptown Girl; My Friend Lodovico; Fare-Beater Inc.; The Ballad of Sonny Payne; Part IV City Lore; The White Baby; New York, Brick by Brick; Memory's Curveball; My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise; Ship of Dreams; The Day the Boy Fell From the Sky; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; A B O U T T H E E D I T O R.…”
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And here's the kicker : conversations with 21 top humor writers on their craft / Mike Sacks. by Sacks, Mike

Table of Contents: “…Show with Bob and David) -- Todd Hanson (The onion) -- Marshall Brickman (The tonight show, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The muppet show) -- Mitch Hurwitz (Arrested development) -- David Sedaris (Naked, Me talk pretty one day) -- George Meyer (Army man, The Simpsons) -- Al Jaffee (Mad's fold-in, "Snappy answers to stupid questions") -- Allison Silverman (The daily show, Late night with Conan O'Brien, The Colbert report) -- Robert Smigel (Saturday night live, Late night with Conan O'Brien, "TV funhouse") -- Dave Barry (Dave Barry's guide to marriage and/or sex) -- Dick Cavett (The Tonight show, The Dick Cavett show) -- Larry Wilmore (In living color, The Bernie Mac show, The daily show, The office) -- Jack Handey (Saturday night live, The New Yorker) -- Larry Gelbart (Caesar's hour, M*A*S*H, Tootsie).…”

The first Chinese American : the remarkable life of Wong Chin Foo / Scott D. Seligman. by Seligman, Scott D.

Table of Contents: “…(1887) -- Fifty cents a pound (1887) -- The Chinese in New York (1887-89) -- I have always been a republican (1888-89) -- I'll cut your head off if you write such things (1888-91) -- The only New Yorker without a country (1891) -- The Chinese equal rights league (1892) -- Is it then a crime to be a chinaman? …”
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Die schrifttafeln der osterinsel;in der lesung metoros und ure vaeikos. by Egbert Richter-Ushanas

Table of Contents: “…Der Brustschmuck Rei Miro 2; 4. Die New Yorker Vogelmann-Figur; 5. König Hotu-matua und die Tafel Aruku Kurenga; 6. …”
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Hans Bethe and his physics / edited by Gerald E. Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee.

Table of Contents: “…Three weeks with Hans Bethe / Christoph Adami. Hans Bethe at The New Yorker / Jeremy Bernstein. My sixty years with Hans Bethe / Edwin E. …”
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Crazy rich Asians : [screenplay] / written by Keith Bunin ; revisions by Peter Chiarelli ; current revisions by Adele Lim ; based on the novel by Kevin Kwan. by Bunin, Keith, Chiarelli, Peter, Lim, Adele

Grand union : stories / Zadie Smith. by Smith, Zadie

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Omnibus, Annie Proulx - Way Out West / BBC Worldwide Learning.

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The bullfighter checks her makeup : my encounters with extraordinary people / Susan Orlean. by Orlean, Susan

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Physics of Sorrow. by Rodel, Angela

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The legacy project : dramatists talk about their work. Vol. 2, Terrence McNally / directed by Jeremy Levine. by Levine, Jeremy

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Videofashion news. Volume 36, Episode 44, Occidental tourist / by Videofashion. by Charney, Nicolas H.

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Temperaments : memoirs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and other artists / Dan Hofstadter. by Hofstadter, Dan

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The Best Business Writing 2013. by Starkman, Dean

Table of Contents: “…/ Peter Whoriskey -- Washington Post -- Big business -- Making the world's largest airline fly / Drake Bennett -- Businessweek -- Gusher / Steve Coll -- The New Yorker -- Bad business -- Vast Mexico bribery case hushed up by Wal-Mart after top-level struggle / David Barstow -- New york times -- Chesapeake and rival plotted to suppress land prices / Brian Grow, Joshua Schneyer, and Janet Roberts -- Reuters -- Fear fans flames for chemical makers / Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe -- Chicago Tribune -- Media and marketing -- His. …”
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84 Charing Cross Road / Columbia Pictures ; a Brooksfilms production ; a David Jones film ; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore ; produced by Geoffrey Helman ; directed by David Jones. by Jones, David, 1934-2008, Whitemore, Hugh, Roose-Evans, James

The best short stories 2022 : the O. Henry Prize winners / guest editor: Valeria Luiselli ; series editor, Jenny Minton Quigley. by Zambra, Alejandro, 1975-, Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe), Dávila, Tere, O'Neill, Joseph, 1964-, Sigers, Shanteka, Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-, Delgado, Yohanca, Nevo, Eshkol, Aguda, 'Pemi, Mitra, Amara, Oikonomou, Chrēstos, 1970-, Oza, Janika, Sorokin, Vladimir, 1955-, González, Francisco, Nieva, Michel, 1988-, Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-, Øyehaug, Gunnhild, 1975-, Ryan, David (David W.), 1964-, Moore, Lorrie, Schweblin, Samanta, 1978-

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Common threads : stories from the quilt / a film by Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

Christmas in Connecticut / Warner Bros. presents ; screenplay by Lionel Houser & Adele Comandini ; directed by Peter Godfrey.

Speedboat / Renata Adler ; afterword by Guy Trebay. by Adler, Renata