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  <title><![CDATA[Writing in Restaurants: Essays and Prose ]]></title>
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  <default_description>Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screenwriter, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actors, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it. </default_description>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Essays. Mamet is at his best telling a story about something that happened to him and his opinions on theatre are interesting too; but he has a tendency to digress in a most plodding manner. The prose is inelegant, and you see immediately the difference between prose and (his strength) dialogue, whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23315336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun, unabashed observations and critiques on a variety of subjects from a guy who loves theatre and holds it on a pedestal as an art form above all art forms. Which is probably why his essays relating to theatre are the most rewarding...although his pieces on pool halls and hunting are equally rewar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29756298">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When you become famous you get to have your collected laundry lists, after-dinner speeches, and random samplings of hot air set down in book form, which is what this little collection of largely hyperbolic oddities represents. Damn, if only I were famous...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok. some of Mamet's essays come off as preachy and naive. There are some great essays on the importance of integrity in theatre. His writing is so articulate and well crafted that it usually  makes up for his high horse opinions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sad to say that he is basically an asshole. True Stories of Bitchiness is proof enough of it. Too bad there was a good moment or two in some of the early essays.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Decay: Some Thoughts for Actors&quot; is the most galvanizing thing ever.]]></body>
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