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The collected prose of the author of American Buffalo and now Oleanna - one of America's most provocative writers.In his previous volumes of notes and essays, David Mamet has touched upon many aspects of his life as a writer. In Writing in Restaurants he reflects modestly on his career, while Some Freaks discourses loudly and entertainingly on aspects of contemporary culture - like the movies, Disneyland and on being a tourist. On Directing Film shows his ebullient and practical approach to his own film making.

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David Mamet was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays and screenplays include Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Winslow Boy The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog and The Verdict, the last two of which won Academy Award nominations. He has also received an Obie Award, and has written a collection of poems, five collections of essays, and a book on acting, True and False. His first novel, The Village, was published by Faber in 1994, followed by the publication of The Old Religion in 1998.

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