Books by Jonathan Baumbach
Open City #22: Fiction/Nonfiction
by Jerry Stahl, Vestal McIntyre, Sam Lipsyte, Leni Zumas, Vince Passaro, Open City Magazine, Jonathan Baumbach, Herbert Gold, Jocko Weyland, Priscilla Becker
A literary magazine of fiction, poetry, and artwork, Open City has a youthful, adventurous spirit and an uncanny knack for finding vibrant and original voices. It’s a rare cultural phenomenon: a literary journal that entices readers and writers from each new generation, and makes people genuinely excited about literature and the thrill of discovering something fresh. Open City #22, a special double-sided fiction/nonfiction issue, features writing by Sam Lipsyte, Edmund White, Stanley Crouch, Priscilla Becker, Matthew Kirby, Ann Hillesland, and a stunning fiction debut by Suhay Rosario.
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The Pavilion of Former Wives
A man and woman carry out an unusual courtship through a series of letters that gradually strip away their facades. A husband and wife argue about an infidelity that may never have happened. A liaison that hinges on a lost car ends before it begins when dreams influence reality. And a man confronts the specters of his failed relationships in the mysterious Pavilion of Former Wives. In 14 thematically linked stories, Jonathan Baumbach explores the sour and bitter sweetness of relationships just beginning and already over, and the frailty that love makes of us.
A staple in the literary scene for over 40 years, Jonathan Baumbach is the author of 14 books of fiction, including You, or The Invention of Memory, On The Way To My Father’s Funeral: New and Selected Stories, and B, a novel. He has published over ninety stories in Esquire, Open City, Boulevard, and elsewhere, and his fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize, and The Best of Tri-Quarterly.
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Shots in the Dark: Collected Film Criticism
Product Description Novelist and critic Jonathan Baumbach was a contributor to Film Culture in the late 1950s, and then was the film critic for the Partisan Review from the 1970s through the early 1980s. His essays touched on a range of interests, including the legacy of French New Wave, the rise of New Hollywood, and the critical reputation of Pauline Kael. Though he was a contemporary of Kael, Andrew Sarris and others in the "Golden Age" of film criticism, Baumbach's writing on cinema has never before been collected in one place. Shots in the Dark will bring this significant body of work together for the first time. Jonathan Baumbach is the son of a painter and the father of a filmmaker, a photographer, and a film theorist. He has had cameo appearances in several of his son, Noah's films. Shots in the Dark is his seventeenth book and second book of criticism. His novels include A Man to Conjure With, Reruns, Separate Hours and YOU or The Invention of Memory. He is a former two-time chairman of The National Society of Film Critics. Miriam Bale is an independent film programmer and writer based in New York. She has written for the New York Times, New York Daily News, Film Comment, Cineaste, Filmmaker, The L, Bomb, as well as film websites such as Moving Image Source and Indiewire. Her programming work has been frequently highlighted in the the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. From the Inside Flap Novelist and critic Jonathan Baumbach was a contributor to Film Culture in the late 1950s, and then was the film critic for The Partisan Review from the 1970s through the early 1980s. His essays touched on a range of interests, including the legacy of French New Wave, the rise of New Hollywood, and the critical reputation of Pauline Kael. Though he was a contemporary of Kael, Andrew Sarris and others in the Golden Age” of film criticism, Baumbach’s writing on cinema has never before been collected in one place. Shots in the Dark will bring this significant body of work together for the first time. From the Back Cover Novelist and critic Jonathan Baumbach was a contributor to Film Culture in the late 1950s, and then was the film critic for The Partisan Review from the 1970s through the early 1980s. His essays touched on a range of interests, including the legacy of French New Wave, the rise of New Hollywood, and the critical reputation of Pauline Kael. Though he was a contemporary of Kael, Andrew Sarris and others in the “Golden Age” of film criticism, Baumbach’s writing on cinema has never before been collected in one place. Shots in the Dark will bring this significant body of work together for the first time. About the Author Jonathan Baumbach is the son of a painter and the father of a filmmaker, a photographer, and a film theorist. He has had cameo appearances in several of his son, Noah’s films. Shots in the Dark is his 17th book and second book of criticism. His novels include A Man to Conjure With, Reruns, Separate Hours and YOU or The Invention of Memory. His most recent short story collection The Pavilion of Former Wives was published by Dzanc in 2016. He is a former two time chairman of The National Society of Film Critics.
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