6 Best nonfiction books like Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings by Frank O'Hara, Morton Feldman, B.H. Friedman

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Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings

By: Frank O'Hara , Morton Feldman , B.H. Friedman

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the twentieth centur…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings by Frank O'Hara, Morton Feldman, B.H. Friedman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Silence: Lectures and Writings

By: John Cage

4.22

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of "Cag… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The world is teeming; anything can happen."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

"The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

"...for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside."

-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

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2. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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  • american
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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3. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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  • american
"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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4. Four Quartets

By: T.S. Eliot

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more

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  • american
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5. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings

By: Frank O'Hara , Morton Feldman , B.H. Friedman

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the twentieth centur… read more

Similar categories in Frank O'Hara's Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings book and Frank O'Hara's Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings

  • music
  • art
  • american
  • classical music
  • collections
  • nonfiction
  • essays

7. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

By: Alex Ross

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • classical music

8. Notes on the Cinematographer

By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and som… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays

9. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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10. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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  • american
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

11. The Joy of Music

By: Tim Page , Leonard Bernstein

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wond… read more

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12. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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13. Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

By: Tiqqun , Ariana Reines

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She is the fi… read more

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14. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

15. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

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16. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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17. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

18. Alfred Schnittke

By: Alexander Ivashkin

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This biography of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (born in 1934) presents a portrait of a man… read more

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19. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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20. Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music

By: None

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Derek Bailey's Improvisation, originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new … read more

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21. Scenes from a Childhood

By: Jon Fosse

3.67

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more

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5 must-read american books like Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings by Frank O'Hara, Morton Feldman, B.H. Friedman

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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3.46

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T.S. Eliot

3.67

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3.70

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Oblivion: Stories

David Foster Wallace

4.07

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Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

4.20

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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