Book Detective

Most overviews of film are written from some high, sunlit mountaintop. In this first collection of Harlan Ellison's cinema criticism (with expanded, never-before-collected articles as well as an essay written especially for this volume) come from the darkened interiors of a thousand movie houses where this most peculiar of all Observers of the Passing Scene has spent much of his life. The view is guaranteed to make you grind your teeth in anger, nod your head in blessed agreement, and open your eyes in a manner of judging films that is definitely not plebeian. Harlan Ellison's love affair with movies is obvious. As an essayist, he has no equal; as a film critic he has no friends. Take care.

Nobody's Perfect by Anthony Lane

The Great Movies by Roger Ebert

I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger Ebert

The Other Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed: Essays by Harlan Ellison

The Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver

The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov

The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate

A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett

Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones

Giving Good Weight by John McPhee

Finding Serenity by Jane Espenson

The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera

Henry Miller on Writing by Henry Miller

Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert

The Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin

The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit