Frank

"These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss{u2019}s working-class ch... (more)

"These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss{u2019}s working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare. Like a series of cels on a filmstrip, frank: sonnets captures the magnitude of a life lived honestly, a restless search for some kind of g2sbeauty or relief.g3s Seuss is at the height of her powers, devastatingly astute, austere, and{u2015}in a word{u2015}frank."--Amazon.com. (less)

Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of his own personality. He also made the very act of liste... (more)

Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of his own personality. He also made the very act of listening to pop music a more personal experience than it had ever been. In "Frank: The Voice," Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable vocal instrument. (less)

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"The candid political memoir of Barney Frank, former House Representative from Massachusetts ... and a pioneering, openl... (more)

"The candid political memoir of Barney Frank, former House Representative from Massachusetts ... and a pioneering, openly gay politician"-- (less)

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Frank Auerbach, works seven days a week and has the reputation of being something of a hermit. In the past this has only... (more)

Frank Auerbach, works seven days a week and has the reputation of being something of a hermit. In the past this has only been fairly true; he saw films, went to the theatre and spent time with friends but these days he rarely leaves his small corner of North London. ..So when an exhibition of his work opened in the Kunstmuseum Bonn in before travelling to Tate Britain, film maker Jake Auerbach decided to go and film the show so that his father could see how it looked… they set up a projector and filmed his responses to seeing the work after a break of anything up to 60 years...The result is a film that unfolds an obsessive painter’s personal manifesto (citing references as diverse as Morecambe & Wise, Gauguin and Shakespeare) which is woven into the relationship between father and son. (less)