Books written by John Sayles
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52 Essential Business Tips
As business and marketing your business moves and changes at a faster pace, it is necessary to find quick methods to stay current.52 Essential Business Tips is a quick, to the point, comprehensive source which gives you valuable insights, ...
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Thinking In Pictures: The Making Of The Movie Matewan
Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of ...
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Yellow Earth
Since the Pashas of Petroleum have encamped in the Bakken oil field, the former Gateway to Manitoba can now boast a paltry 3% jobless rate, the lowest in the country (in Williams County it is under 1%), enormous growth in population and ...
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Jane Campion: Interviews
... Alain Depardieu , Mark Turnbull ; Director / Writer : Jane Campion ; Cinematographer : Stuart Dryburgh ; Original music : Michael Nyman ; Production Designer : Andrew McAlpine ; Costume Designer : Janet Patterson ; Editor : Veronika ...
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A Moment in the Sun
Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time.
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John Sayles: Interviews
Then once you have a Charlie Sheen ( center fielder Hap Felsch ) , John Cusak ( third baseman Buck Weaver ) or D.B. Sweeney ( left fielder ' Shoeless ' Joe Jackson ) say yes , then all of a sudden it becomes an attractive project for ...
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Sayles on Sayles
Interviews with John Sayles who worked on such widely varied projects as The return of the Secaucus seven; Baby, it's you; Brother from another planet; Matewan; Passion fish; Piranha; Alligator; The howling; Apollo 13; City of hope, Lone ...
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Yellow Earth
In Yellow Earth, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the Tribal Business Council.
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Silver City and Other Screenplays
John Sayles—winner of the John Steinbeck Award and others—has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. Silver City and Other Screenplays is a collection...
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Union Dues: A Novel
The setting is Boston, Fall 1969.
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A Moment in the Sun
This is the story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of our greatest storytellers of all time.
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Los Gusanos
Los Gusanos
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Men with Guns: &, Lone Star
In the first of these screenplays a doctor journeys through a Mexican community intimidated by gunmen.
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Pride of the Bimbos
The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball team—The Brooklyn Bimbos—who play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South.
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The Anarchist's Convention and Other Stories
Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction.
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Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Short Stories
A collection of short stories by the American filmmaker that explores life on the edge of poverty and fame.
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Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan
A unique book for anyone who has ever wondered how movies really get made, by America's most brilliant independent filmmaker. Sayles gives an illuminating book about the choices that lie...
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Los Gusanos: A Novel
"Set in Miami in 1981 but spanning six decades of a family's life in Cuba and the United States, Los Gusanos portrays a range of characters - old and young, black and white, men and women - all struggling to make a life in their adopted ...
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Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey
This is a first-rate historical novel told with wit, verve and a subtle understanding of the mechanics of the genre.' - The New York Times Book Review "John Sayles is a living master.