Brecht in Exile

Cook, Bruce

Henry Holt Co.

Listen to the Blues is an engrossing account into the making of America's fundamental music and the men and women who created it on riverboats, in whorehouses, at country dances, and in medicine shows. With guitars and the melancholic power of their voices these musicians developed a unique form of music that contributed to jazz and served as the roots of rock. Bruce Cook writes vividly about the music, explaining its origins and evolution, the conflicts among blues scholars, the hardship and danger that marked the lives of professional bluesmen. Based on original interviews, Listen to the Blues is filled with profiles of people like Leadbelly, Mance Lipscomb, Skip James, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, Son House, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King. With new photos and a new discography, this book is an astute, outstanding introduction to the impact and spirit of the blues.

Listen To The Blues

Arts & Photography

Music

Da Capo Press

Los Angeles private eye Antonio "Chico" Cervantes returns, caring for a pregnant prostitute, Alicia, and taking a job guarding Ursula Toller, a film director's spoiled daughter, from kidnappers

Rough Cut

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Hired by Majestic Studios to keep their name out the news after a corpse is found in their recording department, Los Angeles private eye Chico Cervantes investigates himself and discovers that the murdered man had had many secrets to hide.

Death As a Career Move

Young Will: The Confessions of William Shakespeare

A fresh and vivid re-imagining of Shakespeare's early years in Stratford and in London It's 1616 and William Shakespeare is back in his native Stratford-Upon-Avon. His extraordinary career as a playwright and poet in London seems like another world. A strange encounter with a witch-like madwoman in his local churchyard fills Will with dread, and sends him reeling back in memory to those darker days in London along the filthy, fevered banks of the Thames-a time when politics, plagiarism, sexual passions, and betrayed friendship conspired to the point of murder. Author Bruce Cook perfectly captures Shakespeare's coming of age in a fresh and vivid way. The actors, teachers, lovers, and fellow writers spring to life in Shakespeare's confessions-especially a talented, twisted, compelling, and dangerous man called Kit Marlowe, who would change Will's life forever. Shakespeare speaks, from first page to last, and tells everything. Literally everything...

Contemporary

Truman Talley Books

St. Martin's: Griffin

Private investigator Antonio "Chico" Cervantes, looking into the death of a couple on the eve of their wedding, follows a trail of opium, and battles opposition in his quest for a killer

Mexican Standoff (Mean Streets)

St.Martin's Press

Years after its original publication & one hundred thousand copies later comes a reissued edition of the most comprehensive examination of the Beat movement. Cook objectively analyzes this countercultural movement & its influences today. He includes material on Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsburg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth & others.

Beat Generation

Greenwood Pub Group

Looks at the development of Branson, Missouri into an entertainment center for country music, describes the theaters there, and recommends hotels, restaurants, and shops

The Town That Country Built: Welcome to Branson, Missouri

Reference

Avon/Books

Private Investigator Antonio "Chico" Cervantes, looking into the death of a couple on the eve of their wedding, follows a trail of opium, and battles opposition in his quest for a killer

Mexican Standoff

Franklin Watts

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Brecht in Exile

Listen To The Blues

Rough Cut

Death As a Career Move

Young Will: The Confessions of William Shakespeare

Young Will: The Confessions of William Shakespeare

Mexican Standoff (Mean Streets)

Beat Generation

The Town That Country Built: Welcome to Branson, Missouri

Mexican Standoff