Writing in Restaurants

Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.

• Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
• True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
• On Directing Film
• The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
• Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
• Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
• The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
• Speak with Distinction: The Classic Skinner Method to Speech on the Stage
• The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
• Sanford Meisner on Acting