The director, screenwriter, actor, artist and author, most recently, of “The First Bad Man,” can’t stand Garfield. “That dumb man and his dumb, mean cat have gotten more of our attention than they deserve.”
Picture-book biographies of the painter Benny Andrews and the soprano Leontyne Price trace their paths from African-American childhoods in the segregated South to international acclaim.
Pamela Katz’s “The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink” is an account of “The Threepenny Opera” collaborators Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
In “The Martini Shot,” featuring seven short stories and a novella, George Pelecanos covers his usual milieu but dips into the television world as well.
In “The Martini Shot,” featuring seven short stories and a novella, George Pelecanos covers his usual milieu but dips into the television world as well.
