Michael Lesy's Books

Wisconsin Death Trip

By: Michael Lesy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826358403

ISBN 13

9780826358400

Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910

By: Michael Lesy,Lisa Stoffer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910

By: Michael Lesy,Lisa Stoffer

What we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America’s first real food revolution, 1900–1910. Before Julia Child introduced the American housewife to France’s cuisine bourgeoise, before Alice Waters built her Berkeley shrine to local food, before Wolfgang Puck added Asian flavors to classical dishes and caviar to pizza, the restaurateurs and entrepreneurs of the early twentieth century were changing the way America ate. Beginning with the simplest eateries and foods and culminating with the emergence of a genuinely American way of fine dining, Repast takes readers on a culinary tour of early-twentieth-century restaurants and dining. The innovations introduced at the time—in ingredients, technologies, meal service, and cuisine—transformed the act of eating in public in ways that persist to this day. Illustrated with photographs from the time as well as color plates reproducing menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Menu Collection, Repast is a remarkable record of the American palate.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393241246

ISBN 13

9780393241242

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

By: Michael Lesy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

By: Michael Lesy

Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." —Luc Sante Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of Murder in America. Just as Lesy’s first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so Murder City exposes the dark side of the Jazz Age. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder cases—including that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musical Chicago—Lesy's sharp, fearless storytelling makes a compelling case that this collection of criminals may be progenitors of our modern age.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393077713

ISBN 13

9780393077711

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

By: Michael Lesy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

By: Michael Lesy

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393077713

ISBN 13

9780393077711

People of the Big Voice

Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942

By: Tom Jones,Michael Schmudlach,Matthew Daniel Mason,Amy Lonetree,George A. Greendeer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

People of the Big Voice

Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942

By: Tom Jones,Michael Schmudlach,Matthew Daniel Mason,Amy Lonetree,George A. Greendeer

People of the Big Voice tells the visual history of Ho-Chunk families at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond as depicted through the lens of Black River Falls, Wisconsin studio photographer, Charles Van Schaick. The family relationships between those who “sat for the photographer” are clearly visible in these images—sisters, friends, families, young couples—who appear and reappear to fill in a chronicle spanning from 1879 to 1942. Also included are candid shots of Ho-Chunk on the streets of Black River Falls, outside family dwellings, and at powwows. As author and Ho-Chunk tribal member Amy Lonetree writes, “A significant number of the images were taken just a few short years after the darkest, most devastating period for the Ho-Chunk. Invasion, diseases, warfare, forced assimilation, loss of land, and repeated forced removals from our beloved homelands left the Ho-Chunk people in a fight for their culture and their lives.” The book includes three introductory essays (a biographical essay by Matthew Daniel Mason, a critical essay by Amy Lonetree, and a reflection by Tom Jones) and 300-plus duotone photographs and captions in gallery style. Unique to the project are the identifications in the captions, which were researched over many years with the help of tribal members and genealogists, and include both English and Ho-Chunk names.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Wisconsin Historical Society

Published Date

ISBN 10

0870206591

ISBN 13

9780870206597

William T. Vollmann

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Michael Hemmingson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

William T. Vollmann

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Michael Hemmingson

A prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the National Book Award for Europe Central, William T. Vollmann is considered by many to be one of America's most important living writers. Vollmann has written short stories, novels, and essays, and he has contributed to such publications as Esquire, Granta, Harper's, The New Yorker, Playboy, and Spin magazine. As the author of several works of fiction, including Butterfly Stories, The Royal Family, and You Bright and Risen Angels—as well as such nonfiction as the seven-volume Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means—Vollmann continues to produce significant material at an astounding rate. In this annotated bibliography, Michael Hemmingson has assembled a comprehensive list of all editions of Vollmann's books in every language, as well as every short story, every essay, his investigative journalism, and book reviews. This book also includes an extensive listing of Vollmann's limited edition "book object" artist editions. William T. Vollmann: An Annotated Bibliography is a much needed volume for libraries and fans.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

115

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0810883643

ISBN 13

9780810883642

Walker Evans: Last Photographs and Life Stories

By: Michael Lesy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Walker Evans: Last Photographs and Life Stories

By: Michael Lesy

A unique meeting of two transformative talents in American photography, Walker Evans (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) and Michael Lesy (Wisconsin Death Trip), with a selection of Evans's little-seen Polaroid portraits and last works

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

176

Published Date

ISBN 10

0922233527

ISBN 13

9780922233526

The Last American Puritan

The Life of Increase Mather, 1639–1723

By: Michael G. Hall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Last American Puritan

The Life of Increase Mather, 1639–1723

By: Michael G. Hall

Powerful preacher, political negotiator for New England in the halls of Parliament, president of Harvard, father of Cotton Mather, Increase Mather was the epitome of the American Puritan. He was the most important spokesman of his generation for Congregationalism and became the last American Puritan of consequence as the seventeenth century ended. The story begins in 1639 when Mather was born in the Massachusetts village of Dorchester. He left home for Harvard College when he was twelve and at twenty-two began to stir the city of Boston from the pulpit of North Church. He had written four books by the time he was thirty-two. Certain he was God's chosen instrument and New England God's chosen people, he disciplined mind and spirit in service to them both. Tempted to "Atheisme" and unbelief, afflicted early by nightmares and melancholy, then by hope and joy, he was a pioneer in recognizing the excitement of the new sciences and sought to reconcile them to theology. This well-wrought biography, the first of Increase Mather in forty years, draws on the extensive Mather diaries, which were transcribed by Michael Hall.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

457

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0819572543

ISBN 13

9780819572547

Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

By: Michael Lynn Crews

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

By: Michael Lynn Crews

Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthy's literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthy's correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences—impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive—vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

357

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1477314709

ISBN 13

9781477314708

Drifting on a Read

Jazz as a Model for Writing

By: Michael Jarrett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Drifting on a Read

Jazz as a Model for Writing

By: Michael Jarrett

Forsøg på at indkredse jazzmusikkens væsen ved en gennemgang af forskellige måder at beskrive jazz på i musikkritikken, i skønlitteraturen og i udsagn fra musikere og komponister

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

SUNY Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0791440982

ISBN 13

9780791440988

Ghosts in the Machine

Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema

By: Michael Atkinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ghosts in the Machine

Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema

By: Michael Atkinson

(Limelight). Looking back on a century that witnessed the emergence of motion pictures to become, almost immediately, a dominant cultural force in our lives, this penetrating and provocative book argues that "movies (like cathedrals) cannot help but display the subconscious impulses oftheir society." From D.W. Griffith to the Marx Brothers to film noir, "what are conceived and consumed as innocent pop movies ... are in fact manifestations of wild horror, superstitious ignorance, fatalistic dread and bigoted savagery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Hal Leonard Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

0879102853

ISBN 13

9780879102852

The Conversations

Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

By: Michael Ondaatje,Walter Murch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Conversations

Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

By: Michael Ondaatje,Walter Murch

These recorded consversations between highly acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje and veteran editor Walter Murch, two giants of their respective industries, elucidate the world of film from the inside out.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

0747564728

ISBN 13

9780747564720

The Haunt of Home

A Journey through America's Heartland

By: Zachary Michael Jack

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Haunt of Home

A Journey through America's Heartland

By: Zachary Michael Jack

What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourish in many of the nation's most far-flung and forgotten places. The Haunt of Home introduces us to a cast of real-life Midwestern characters grappling with the Gothic in their own lives, from promising young professionals debating the perennial "Should I stay or should I go" dilemma, to recent émigrés and entrepreneurs seeking personal reinvention, to faithful boosters determined to keep their communities alive despite the odds. In The Haunt of Home Zachary Michael Jack considers the many ways a region's abiding spirit shapes the ethos of a land and its people, offering portraits of others who, like himself, are determined to live out the unique promise and predicament of the Gothic.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501751816

ISBN 13

9781501751813

Mystic Chords of Memory

The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mystic Chords of Memory

The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic." —Washington Post Book World In this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—have been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly." —Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task . . . an importnat book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves." —Milwaukee Journal

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

879

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307761401

ISBN 13

9780307761408

Wisconsin Curiosities

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

By: Michael Feldman,Diana Cook

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wisconsin Curiosities

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

By: Michael Feldman,Diana Cook

Popular public radio show host Michael Feldman and coauthor Diana Cook introduce Wisconsin's weirdest, wackiest, and most outrageous people, places, and things including a man who owes his life to a foam rubber cheesehead, a worm that plays basketball, and the best place to savor chicken in a hubcap.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1461747252

ISBN 13

9781461747253

Missouri Irish

The Original History of the Irish in Missouri

By: Michael C. O'Laughlin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Missouri Irish

The Original History of the Irish in Missouri

By: Michael C. O'Laughlin

The first history ever written on the Irish in Kansas City, St. Louis, The Irish Wilderness and Missouri at large. Includes the early settlers and settlements, family history, parades, organizations, politics, from the earliest times to modern day. This is the only enlarged and updated edition ever in print. Sources for futher study included. Indexed. Authored by the most published author in the field. Free "Missouri Irish" companion podcast series to this book, hosted by the author, at www.Irishroots.com

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

Irish Roots Cafe

Published Date

ISBN 10

0940134268

ISBN 13

9780940134263

Book's by Michael Lesy

Wisconsin Death Trip

Wisconsin Death Trip

Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910

Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

People of the Big Voice

People of the Big Voice

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

Walker Evans: Last Photographs and Life Stories

Walker Evans: Last Photographs and Life Stories

The Last American Puritan

The Last American Puritan

Books Are Made Out of Books

Books Are Made Out of Books

Drifting on a Read

Drifting on a Read

Ghosts in the Machine

Ghosts in the Machine

The Conversations

The Conversations

The Haunt of Home

The Haunt of Home

Mystic Chords of Memory

Mystic Chords of Memory

Wisconsin Curiosities

Wisconsin Curiosities

Missouri Irish

Missouri Irish

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email