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Something Wonderful Right Away

The Birth of Second City—America's Greatest Comedy Theater

By: Jeffrey Sweet

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Something Wonderful Right Away

The Birth of Second City—America's Greatest Comedy Theater

By: Jeffrey Sweet

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Building scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a fine way to develop great actors, directors, and writers. Alumni went on to create such groundbreaking works as The Graduate, Groundhog Day, and Don’t Look Up. Many of them also became stars on Saturday Night Live. Something Wonderful Right Away features the pioneers of the empire that transformed American comedy. This new edition tells even more of the story. Included for the first time is an interview with Viola Spolin, the genius who invented theater games that were the foundation of improvisational theater. Also included are dozens of follow-up stories about Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, Del Close, Joan Rivers, Alan Arkin, and Gilda Radner, plus “You Only Shoot the Ones You Love,” the story of how this book’s author, playwright Jeffrey Sweet, became so involved in the community he covered that he was captured by it.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621538257

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9781621538257

Hot Sour Salty Sweet

A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

By: Jeffrey Alford,Naomi Duguid

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Hot Sour Salty Sweet

A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

By: Jeffrey Alford,Naomi Duguid

Luminous at dawn and dusk, the Mekong is a river road, a vibrant artery that defines a vast and fascinating region. Here, along the world's tenth largest river, which rises in Tibet and joins the sea in Vietnam, traditions mingle and exquisite food prevails. Award-winning authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid followed the river south, as it flows through the mountain gorges of southern China, to Burma and into Laos and Thailand. For a while the right bank of the river is in Thailand, but then it becomes solely Lao on its way to Cambodia. Only after three thousand miles does it finally enter Vietnam and then the South China Sea. It was during their travels that Alford and Duguid—who ate traditional foods in villages and small towns and learned techniques and ingredients from cooks and market vendors—came to realize that the local cuisines, like those of the Mediterranean, share a distinctive culinary approach: Each cuisine balances, with grace and style, the regional flavor quartet of hot, sour, salty, and sweet. This book, aptly titled, is the result of their journeys. Like Alford and Duguid's two previous works, Flatbreads and Flavors ("a certifiable publishing event" —Vogue) and Seductions of Rice ("simply stunning"—The New York Times), this book is a glorious combination of travel and taste, presenting enticing recipes in "an odyssey rich in travel anecdote" (National Geographic Traveler). The book's more than 175 recipes for spicy salsas, welcoming soups, grilled meat salads, and exotic desserts are accompanied by evocative stories about places and people. The recipes and stories are gorgeously illustrated throughout with more than 150 full-color food and travel photographs. In each chapter, from Salsas to Street Foods, Noodles to Desserts, dishes from different cuisines within the region appear side by side: A hearty Lao chicken soup is next to a Vietnamese ginger-chicken soup; a Thai vegetable stir-fry comes after spicy stir-fried potatoes from southwest China. The book invites a flexible approach to cooking and eating, for dishes from different places can be happily served and eaten together: Thai Grilled Chicken with Hot and Sweet Dipping Sauce pairs beautifully with Vietnamese Green Papaya Salad and Lao sticky rice. North Americans have come to love Southeast Asian food for its bright, fresh flavors. But beyond the dishes themselves, one of the most attractive aspects of Southeast Asian food is the life that surrounds it. In Southeast Asia, people eat for joy. The palate is wildly eclectic, proudly unrestrained. In Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, at last this great culinary region is celebrated with all the passion, color, and life that it deserves.

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1579655645

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9781579655648

The Tree Book

A Practical Guide to Selecting and Maintaining the Best Trees for Your Yard and Garden

By: Jeffrey G. Meyer

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The Tree Book

A Practical Guide to Selecting and Maintaining the Best Trees for Your Yard and Garden

By: Jeffrey G. Meyer

A practical guide to selecting and maintaining the best trees for your yard and garden.

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420

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Simon and Schuster

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0743249747

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9780743249744

Sweet Return

By: Anna Jeffrey

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Sweet Return

By: Anna Jeffrey

Clova has no one to help run her struggling ranch, so Joanna decides to call on her other son, Dalton, who left home years earlier to be a Los Angeles photojournalist. But when Dalton returns to Texas, he's angered to find Joanna's nasty chickens living on a few acres of the ranch. When Dalton accuses Joanna of exploiting his mom, she counters by pointing out his 15-year absence. As the steely recriminations fly, they spark a fire between the rugged, self-confident Dalton and the wise, uncompromising Joanna.

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0739489917

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9780739489918

Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Jeffrey D. Schultz,Luchen Li

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Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Jeffrey D. Schultz,Luchen Li

Celebrates the American writer who in his works confronted and explored the social fabric of the United States in the early 20th century. More than 500 entries include synopses of his novels, short stories, and nonfiction; descriptions of his characters, details about family, friends, and associates.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108508

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9781438108506

The Action Against Sol Schumann

By: Jeffrey Sweet

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The Action Against Sol Schumann

By: Jeffrey Sweet

THE STORY: As told by the Chicago Tribune : Jeffrey Sweet's deeply felt and profoundly moving new play confronts its characters, and its audience, with a complex moral dilemma. Sol Schumann, a devout American Jew and beloved father of two gr

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822219492

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9780822219491

Stevia Sweet Recipes

Sugar-Free-Naturally

By: Jeffrey Goettemoeller

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Stevia Sweet Recipes

Sugar-Free-Naturally

By: Jeffrey Goettemoeller

Stevia Sweet Recipes offers health-conscious readers over 165 kitchen-tested recipes that use Stevia—a calorie-free, nonglycemic herbal sweetener—in place of refined sugar or artificial sweeteners. Enjoy the author’s many creative dishes, from healthy breakfast shakes to sensational salads to luscious desserts, while learning how to use this amazing herb in your own treasured family dishes. Soon you’ll be sweetening all your foods the natural way, with Stevia.

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Square One Publishers, Inc.

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075705112X

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9780757051128

What Playwrights Talk about when They Talk about Writing

By: Jeffrey Sweet

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What Playwrights Talk about when They Talk about Writing

By: Jeffrey Sweet

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights. Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories onstage featuring extensive interviews with a gallery of gifted contemporary dramatists. In their own words, Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, David Hare, and many others offer insights into all aspects of the creative writing process as well as their personal views on the business, politics, and fraternity of professional theater. This essential work will give playwrights and playgoers alike a deeper and more profound appreciation of the art form they love.

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Yale University Press

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0300211449

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9780300211443

Kunstler

By: Jeffrey Sweet

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Kunstler

By: Jeffrey Sweet

Famous for defending the Chicago Seven and his involvement at Attica and Wounded Knee, the radical attorney and civil rights activist William Kunstler had an outsize personality and a tremendous appetite for life. In this two-character play, tensions flare when he arrives on a college campus to give a seminar. The brilliant young law student assigned to introduce him objects to his appearance and is determined to confront him. Has Kunstler finally met his match?

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822238918

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9780822238911

The Value of Names and Other Plays

By: Jeffrey Sweet

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The Value of Names and Other Plays

By: Jeffrey Sweet

Spanning a quarter of a century, this collection of plays demonstrates author Jeffrey Sweet’s eye for the drama of human relationships. Sweet works with sensitivity and irony to confront both personal politics and the impact of historical change. These nine works, taken together, present a playwright who extends the struggles of his small circles of characters to his audience and humanity in general. The title work, first mounted in 1982, is a comedy-drama about the aftermath of the blacklist whose continued relevance makes it a frequently produced play today. The family drama Porch suggests larger social changes through the interaction of a small-town shopkeeper and his defiant daughter. The lauded American Enterprise, set in the Chicago of the robber barons, is a song-filled true story about a millionaire whose stubborn idealism leads to disaster. Stay Till Morning is a rueful comedy about sex and accommodation in the Florida Keys. The three plays that grew out of his fascination with the effects of World War II—Berlin ’45, Court-Martial at Fort Devens, and The Action Against Sol Schumann—dramatize the ways in which that conflict transformed private fates. Each script is accompanied by an extended introduction from the playwright as well as complete performance notes.

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566

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Northwestern University Press

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0810123959

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9780810123953

Drama

By: Jeffrey D. Hoeper,James H. Pickering,Deborah K. Chappel

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Drama

By: Jeffrey D. Hoeper,James H. Pickering,Deborah K. Chappel

An anthology of twenty-nine theatrical works, with critical commentary.

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Macmillan College

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0023556013

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9780023556012

Book's by Jeffrey Sweet

Something Wonderful Right Away

Something Wonderful Right Away

Hot Sour Salty Sweet

Hot Sour Salty Sweet

The Tree Book

The Tree Book

Sweet Return

Sweet Return

Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

The Action Against Sol Schumann

The Action Against Sol Schumann

Stevia Sweet Recipes

Stevia Sweet Recipes

What Playwrights Talk about when They Talk about Writing

What Playwrights Talk about when They Talk about Writing

Kunstler

Kunstler

The Value of Names and Other Plays

The Value of Names and Other Plays

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Drama

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