John Sayles, Author . Nation Books $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56025-632-8
Though Sayles is best known as the writer/director of acclaimed independent films (Lone Star
; Matewan
), he's also an accomplished novelist (Union Dues
; Los Gusanos
). In this engaging collection, his first in 25 years, he reminds us of his...
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John Sayles, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-395-45388-9
A novelist, film writer and independent director explains how he conceived, wrote, casted, funded, directed, designed, shot and edited a movie about a coal miners' strike and massacre in West Virginia in the 1920s. Coinciding with the release of...
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John Sayles, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22.95 (473p) ISBN 978-0-06-016653-3
``Los Gusanos,'' or ``worms,'' is Fidel Castro's epithet for the Cubans who fled the island after the revolution. The story of these exiles--full of violent passions, tender memories and old vendettas--is what filmmaker/author Sayles ( Union City...
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John Sayles, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-092159-0
Novelist turned filmmaker Sayles returns to print with an ambitious story--a BOMC selection in cloth--of Cuban exiles in the United States over the decades since Castro. Impressive psychological details and a generous spirit compensate for...
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John Sayles. McSweeney's, $29 (968p) ISBN 978-1-936365-18-0
Though known best as a filmmaker (Eight Men Out), Sayles is also an accomplished novelist (Union Dues), whose latest will stand among the finest work on his impressive résumé. Weighing in at nearly 1,000 pages, the behemoth recalls E.L. Doctorow's...
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John Sayles, Author, Gavin Smith, Editor, Gavin Smith, Joint Author Faber & Faber $16.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-571-19280-9
Smith's book-length interview with independent filmmaker John Sayles chronicles Sayles's start as a novelist (Union Dues, 1977, was nominated for a National Book Award), his apprenticeship writing horror scripts (The Howling, 1980) for producer...
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John Sayles. Melville House, $32 (736p) ISBN 978-1-61219-988-7
Film director and novelist Sayles (Yellow Earth) follows in this strong outing the parallel stories of a Scottish rebel and a young Scottish woman pressed into servitude and sent to the Caribbean. The author opens with the 1745 Battle of Culloden....
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John Sayles. Melville House, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-6858-9141-1
Filmmaker and novelist Sayles (Jamie McGillivray) offers an electrifying and convincing chronicle of resistance among Indigenous students at the Carlisle Industrial School in 1890. Antoine LaMere travels from Wisconsin to the school in southern...
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