10 Best pop culture books like Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel

Cover of Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel

Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

By: Glenn Frankel

4.23

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scene…

If you liked the pop culture plot in Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. Midnight Cowboy

By: James Leo Herlihy

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Joe Buck, naively charming Texan cowboy, seeks his fortune in the Big Apple, but encounters Ratso R… read more

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2. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

By: Mark Harris

4.10

Format: None pages,

Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 19… read more

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3. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

By: Ed Zwick

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more

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  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Cover of Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

4. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan

5. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm   Harris

6. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

8. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson

9. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

10. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter

11. Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Philip Gefter

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbrea… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson

12. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas by Glenn Kenny

13. Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas

By: Glenn Kenny

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For the thirtieth anniversary of its premiere comes the vivid and immersive history behind Martin S… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
" Irwin Winkler did not share the credit of “Producer."

-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas

"Barbara De Fina said that Irwin Winkler was, and has been, “ nothing but nasty "

-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas

"Who found the material, who pursued the material and how, who bought the material, whose account is true or accurate: these might not seem consequential questions now. But they have definite implicat…"

-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas

Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

14. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger

15. Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss

16. Hilma af Klint: A Biography

By: Julia Voss

4.29

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter.   The Swedish painter … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker

17. Kubrick: An Odyssey

By: Robert P. Kolker

4.26

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Shining , and A Clockwork Or… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow

18. From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy

By: Scott Meslow

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tra… read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson

19. The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible

By: Luke Mogelson

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accele… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel

20. Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

By: Glenn Frankel

4.23

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scene… read more

Similar categories in Glenn Frankel's Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic book and Glenn Frankel's Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

  • audiobook
  • new york
  • cultural
  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • pop culture
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

21. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

19 best-selling audiobook books like Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris

3.90

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16 must-read audiobook books like Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas by Glenn Kenny

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Transform Your Habits

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson

4.22

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