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HOW LUCKY I WAS: MY LIFE AND TIMES

The self-published autobiography of a writer, professional poker player and teacher who once counted yours-truly among his pupils

A solid, if not entirely satisfying, overview of the life and output of the late Paul Bartel

The first and only book devoted to the life and literary output of England’s John W. Wall, a.k.a. Sarban

The first book about the ultra-combative, never-to-be-repeated Siskel & Ebert dynamic

The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing

An unabashed puff piece that nonetheless emerges as the definitive resource on all things BILLY JACK

A history of “horror’s most misunderstood film,” written by that film’s own writer-director

20th Century horror, as covered by the enromously intelligent and always entertaining David J. Skal

A “Pre-Posthumous Memoir” by the outspoken London-based cartoonist-turned-director Terry Gilliam, and everything you’d expect

From the underground publishing outfit Amok Books, a sumptuously designed art book about a most unique European art collective