John Simon

21 books

Against the American Grain: Essays of the Effects of Mass Culture by John Simon, Dwight Macdonald

Against the American Grain: Essays of the Effects of Mass Culture

John Simon, Dwight Macdonald

nonfiction essays philosophy reflective fast-paced

427 pages | first published 1962

The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner by Elia Kazan, Edmund Wilson, Alan Dale, Langston Hughes, Frank Rich, Olive Logan, Charles Sprague, William Gillette, Anna Cora Mowatt, Edward P. Hingston, Brooks Atkinson, John Lithgow, Hallie Flanagan, Luis Valdez, Lorraine Hansberry, Hutchins Hapgood, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Thornton Wilder, Jr., Ed Bullins, David Mamet, Morton Eustis, Robert Benchley, Washington Irving, Elizabeth Hardwick, Fred Allen, Willa Cather, Wendy Wasserstein, Ludwig Lewisohn, Gilbert Seldes, John Lahr, Lottie Blair Parker, Walter Kerr, Edward Albee, Djuna Barnes, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Mary McCarthy, Eric Bentley, Laurence Senelick, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Charles Ludlam, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harold Clurman, Sidney Skolsky, Alexander Woollcott, S.J. Perelman, Charles L. Mee, John Houseman, John Mason Brown, Channing Pollock, William Winter, Frances Milton Trollope, John Simon, Tony Kushner, William Dunlap, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Van Vechten, Charles King Newcomb, Stark Young, Philip Hone, Susan Sontag, Thomas Wolfe, Walt Whitman, Anne Bogart, Rollin Lynde Hartt, Don Marquis, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, William Goldman, Alain LeRoy Locke, Ezra Pound, Lee Simonson, Spalding Gray, Ring Lardner, James G. Huneker, Thomas M. Disch, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner

Elia Kazan, Edmund Wilson, Alan Dale, Langston Hughes, Frank Rich, Olive Logan, Charles Sprague, William Gillette, Anna Cora Mowatt, Edward P. Hingston, Brooks Atkinson, John Lithgow, Hallie Flanagan, Luis Valdez, Lorraine Hansberry, Hutchins Hapgood, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Thornton Wilder, Jr., Ed Bullins, David Mamet, Morton Eustis, Robert Benchley, Washington Irving, Elizabeth Hardwick, Fred Allen, Willa Cather, Wendy Wasserstein, Ludwig Lewisohn, Gilbert Seldes, John Lahr, Lottie Blair Parker, Walter Kerr, Edward Albee, Djuna Barnes, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Mary McCarthy, Eric Bentley, Laurence Senelick, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Charles Ludlam, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harold Clurman, Sidney Skolsky, Alexander Woollcott, S.J. Perelman, Charles L. Mee, John Houseman, John Mason Brown, Channing Pollock, William Winter, Frances Milton Trollope, John Simon, Tony Kushner, William Dunlap, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Van Vechten, Charles King Newcomb, Stark Young, Philip Hone, Susan Sontag, Thomas Wolfe, Walt Whitman, Anne Bogart, Rollin Lynde Hartt, Don Marquis, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, William Goldman, Alain LeRoy Locke, Ezra Pound, Lee Simonson, Spalding Gray, Ring Lardner, James G. Huneker, Thomas M. Disch, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

nonfiction reference informative reflective slow-paced

850 pages | first published 2010

John Simon on Film: Criticism 1982-2001 by John Simon

John Simon on Film: Criticism 1982-2001

John Simon

nonfiction art history reflective medium-paced

700 pages

John Simon on Theater: Criticism 1974-2003 by John Simon

John Simon on Theater: Criticism 1974-2003

John Simon

nonfiction art history sad medium-paced

840 pages

Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler, John Simon, Margret Schaefer

Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas

Arthur Schnitzler, John Simon, Margret Schaefer

fiction classics short stories challenging reflective sad slow-paced

288 pages | first published 1926

On Movies by John Simon, Dwight Macdonald

On Movies

John Simon, Dwight Macdonald

nonfiction essays reflective medium-paced

492 pages | first published 1969

Truth, Lies & Hearsay: A Memoir of a Musical Life in and Out of Rock and Roll by John Simon

Truth, Lies & Hearsay: A Memoir of a Musical Life in and Out of Rock and Roll

John Simon

nonfiction music informative medium-paced

344 pages

Critical Essays by Reinhold Grimm, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, John Simon

Critical Essays

Reinhold Grimm, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, John Simon

informative medium-paced

272 pages | first published 1982

Dream Garden by Lei Yang, John Simon

Dream Garden

Lei Yang, John Simon

fiction historical challenging medium-paced

244 pages

Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon

Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry

John Simon

poetry reflective medium-paced

265 pages | first published 2001