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Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass

News flash: Herzog film shoots are unconventional.


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
By the off chance you read Alan Greenberg’s Every Night the Trees Disappear nearly 40 years ago this new, retooled, hardcover edition from Chicago Review Press is the one to get. It’s unlike any behind-the-scenes film book you’ve ever read.
 
Monday, May 7, 2012

Big leagues

A new book details how OKC landed the Thunder.


Nonfiction

Brendan Hoover
David Holt
5-7 p.m. Friday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 NW Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East


Nonfiction

Matt Carney
Oklahoma City lost one of its greatest native sons Feb. 16 when Anthony Shadid succumbed to a severe asthma attack while reporting in journalist-hostile Syria. He was 43.
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Seeking subversion

In his latest book, Oklahoma City pastor Robin Meyers proposes a religious equivalent of the ‘common good.’


Nonfiction

Greg Horton
Robin Meyers
6:30 p.m. Thursday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Big Book of Breasts 3D

Two reasons why the Kindle won’t kill the printed page entirely ...


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
There is no way to review a book like “The Big Book of Breasts 3-D” without appearing like some misogynist perv.
 
Friday, January 20, 2012

Bud light

A collection of letters shows the softer side of legendary OU coach Bud Wilkinson.


Nonfiction

Andrew Gilman
Jay Wilkinson
6:30 p.m. Thursday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900

2 p.m. Saturday
Barnes & Noble
540 Ed Noble Parkway
bn.com
579-8800
 
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

State of shock

Author David A. Farris seeks out Oklahoma’s ‘Spooky Stories,’ all stranger than fiction.


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
David A. Farris
2-3:30 p.m.
Sunday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebookstore.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Blacktop book

From pavement to page, America’s historic highway comes alive in the photographs collected in ‘Route 66 Sightings.’


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
Route 66 Sightings
3 p.m. Saturday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900
 
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

'Into the Storm'

Reed Timmer’s tornadovideos.net team debuted on the second season of “Storm Chasers.”

 
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Hangman

Oklahoma historian Alvin Turner based his new book of poetry on hangings.


Nonfiction

Ryan Querbach
In April of 1909, a vigilante mob hanged four men awaiting trial as murder suspects in Ada. Jim Miller, Jesse West, Joe Allen and D.B. Burrell were set to stand trial for the murder of Gus Bobbitt when the angry mob estimated at around 40 people took matters into their own hands.
 
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music — Nona Willis Aronowitz, ed.

A fascinating republishing of an unfairly forgotten seminal rock critic’s work


Nonfiction

Stephen Carradini
The New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first pop music critic in 1968. She wrote the monthly “Rock, Etc.” column for the magazine until 1975.
 
Friday, June 10, 2011

The Indie Rock Poster Book — Yellow Bird Project and Andy J. Miller

Indie designers take indie songs and make indie posters. What’s not to love?


Nonfiction

Stephen Carradini
Yellow Bird Project is a charity organization that allows musicians and visual artists to do what they do best for charity: create art.
 
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo — Richard C. Rattenbury

Pleases hard-core fans and the curious


Nonfiction

Rod Lott
Remember when going to the rodeo meant your eyes weren’t assaulted by sponsorship logos at every angle?
 
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Memory Lane


Nonfiction

Clifton Adcock
A former district attorney’s new memoir focuses on his experience navigating his belief system and the legal system.
 
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
 
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