8 Best nonfiction books like Inland Empire by Melissa Sue Anderson

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Inland Empire

By: Melissa Sue Anderson

3.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Inland Empire is a film by David Lynch about a once-feted Hollywood actress who is cast in a movie …

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1. McGlue

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.67

Format: None pages,

Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more

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2. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

3. My Last Sigh

By: Luis Buñuel , Abigail Israel

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

This long out-of-paint autobiography provides insight into the genesis of Bunuel's films and convey… read more

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4. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer

By: Paul Schrader

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the scr… read more

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5. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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6. 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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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film
"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

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7. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film
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8. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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9. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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10. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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11. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

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13. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

By: Carrie Courogen

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A deeply researched, psychologically astute new biography of May by Carrie Courogen...The book is … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • film
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14. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)

By: Dino Buzzati

3.53

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more

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15. Doppelgänger

By: Daša Drndić

3.56

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Two elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year’s E… read more

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16. Inland Empire

By: Melissa Sue Anderson

3.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Inland Empire is a film by David Lynch about a once-feted Hollywood actress who is cast in a movie … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film
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17. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

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18. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

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19. Tale of Cinema

By: Dennis Lim

4.29

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In the fourth title of the Decadent Editions series, Dennis Lim explores the filmography of South K… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • film
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20. Goodbye, Dragon Inn

By: Nick Pinkerton

4.37

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Is cinema really dying? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film
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21. Ten Skies

By: Erika Balsom

4.26

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

‘James Benning’s movies show me how to look, and confirm the way I want to see. Erika Balsom, clear… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film

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Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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