Wallace Shawn, Author Noonday Press $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-15467-7
The narrator is having a mid-life crisis. He's shaking and vomiting in a hotel in a strange Third World country, contemplating the plight of the poor and the oppressed around the globe. As his annoying interior monologue unfolds, he becomes...
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Wallace Shawn, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19 (172p) ISBN 978-0-374-13822-6
Wallace Shawn (A Modest Proposal), known to some as that guy in Clueless, has written a new play called The Designated Mourner. With only three characters and a number of intimate monologues, the play stands up very well as a text. The narrator,...
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Wallace Shawn. Haymarket, $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-60846-812-6
Shawn (Essays), an actor and Obie-winning playwright, reflects on civilization, morality, Beethoven, 11th-century Japanese court poetry, and his hopes for a better world, among other topics. Acerbic yet compassionate, Shawn’s meditations epitomize...
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Wallace Shawn, read by the author, Haymarket Books, unabridged, four CDs, 5 hrs., $36 ISBN 978-1-6084-6004-5
Caveat emptor: these witty, ironic, and observant essays by Wallace Shawn are brought to audio in a shoddy production with such poor sound quality that listeners may justifiably demand their money back. The microphone skips in and out so that parts...
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