Books written by Anna Deavere Smith

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  Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines

  I was walking down a hallway of a high school, just after Clinton had saluted a number of policemen, and I saw Todd Purdum talking to Maureen Dowd. She grabbed Todd and pulled him into a classroom. The door slammed.

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  Notes from the Field

  But Yin had a friend named Todd. And Todd had actually gone down. And looked at it. And he knew a Greenpeace activist in New York who had experience, you know. Scaling trees and all of these things and so, he was like, “You know, ...

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  Let Me Down Easy

  RUTH KATZ Patient, Yale-New Haven Hospital “That Bedrock of Care” Addressing the audience. White woman in her 40s, red blazerstyle jacket, jeans. Strong Jersey/Atlantic City accent. I'm in a pretty unique position.

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  The Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays: Bystander 9/11; Big Head; The Fence; Come Out Eli; The Travels; On the...

  I feel like my parents couldn't deal with it, it was so strong for them that they couldn't deal with explaining it to us. I have the feeling that there wasn't a limit to evil. Ghost people, in the end. I never asked.

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  The Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays: Bystander 9/11; Big Head; The Fence; Come Out Eli; The Travels; On the...

  Inez McCormick, Northern Ireland interviewed by Carol K. Mack. Mukhtar Mai, Pakistan interviewed by Susan Yankowitz. Mu Sochua, Cambodia interviewed by Catherine Filloux. Marina Pisklakova-Parker, Russia interviewed by Paula Cizmar.

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  Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of...

  At once inspiring and no-nonsense, Letters to a Young Artist will challenge you, motivate you, and set you on a course to pursue your art without compromise.

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  Twilight--Los Angeles, 1992: On the Road : a Search for American Character

  The author's latest work of documentary theater uses the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to show a city in turmoil

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  Fires in the Mirror

  Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict.

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  Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics

  Drawing on five years of research and more than four hundred interviews, the author of Fires in the Mirror offers an inside glimpse of American politics at work as she provides a provocative study of politicians and other Washington ...

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  House Arrest: A Search for American Character in and Around the White House, Past and Present

  THE STORY: HOUSE ARREST is a fascinating and compelling look at nothing less than the civil rights movement, the issues of slavery and racism, and the relationship between the press and the presidency over the course of American history.

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  Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper

  One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a ...

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  Letters to a Young Artist

  Provides advice to young artists on how they can integrate artistic integrity with professional savvy, discussing such topics as the importance of networking, the role of the artist in social change, and how to pursue one's art without ...

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  Lyle Ashton Harris

  Known for self-portraits which explore issues of performance, identity, family, gender, masculinity and race, Lyle Ashton Harris here presents a new series featuring himself in a variety of loaded guises: Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker and ...

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  House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays

  From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience.In the provocative and at times bitterly funny play House Arrest, Smith examines the...

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  Let Me Down Easy (TCG Edition)

  Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying.

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  Let Me Down Easy

  Let Me Down Easy