The playwright's first collection of non-fiction offers short, powerful blasts of intellect, insight, humor, and venom. From the dead-on indictment of faddish art in "Decadence" to a beautiful recollection of place in "Pool Halls," Mamet's prose is clarion and his observations are keen. Do not miss "True Stories of Bitches" and "Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill."

Harold Check