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his Art Deco News and The Modernist, Posters from the Glenn Loney Poster
Collection, 50 years of theatre, dance, & opera production-photos, special
sites for the Bayreuth, Bregenz, Edinburgh, Munich, & Salzburg Festivals,
several decades of Drama Desk discussions, and 50 years of Loney
audio-interviews with artists, architects, & performing-artists.
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GLENN LONEY BOOK SHOP
WHAT'S IN STOCK ON THE VIRTUAL-SHELVES?
The purpose of the Glenn Loney Book Shop Web site is to make easily available
out-of-print books and previously unpublished manuscripts that their author
believes will be of both special interest and practical use for a varied
reading-audience. The author holds the copyright to all of these titles.
Should there be interest in publishing any of these titles in print as
bound-books, the author welcomes enquiries.
Initially, in order to make the various texts immediately available for
online-reading or print-out, they have been simply formatted, with no
photographs or other illustrations. As there are a number of titles — and some
texts are still in the process of scanning, editing, and formatting — useful
photos and graphics will be added later.
Most of the titles have been provided with a form of chat-room so that readers
can share additional information that can be incorporated in the texts, offer
helpful comments, and even correct misspellings and editorial glitches.
If there is urgent need for illustrations that obviously would be useful in
connection with some texts — especially in course-work with students —it may be
possible to scan and e-mail such photos and sketches before they are added to
the printed-texts, but there would have to be an extra charge for such
services, as this project is not subsidized and thus has to be self-sustaining.
Many of the photographs will be drawn from the author's 50-year worldwide
INFOTOGRAPHY archive of photos he has made of Art, Architecture, Historical
Subjects, Landmarks, Landscapes, Monuments, Theatres, Performances, Posters,
Lifestyles, Fashions, Folklore, Patterns, Designs, and other special
categories of images.
Once this sub-site is well-established, it may be possible to make available
online the texts and manuscripts of other authors who have not been able to
find a print-publisher for them. Several of the author's graduate-students
have interesting manuscripts that deserve some form of publication, but — like
some of the author's own titles — have too limited an appeal for publishers
seeking titles that will sell 150,000 copies or more.
The oldest text among the titles listed below was published in 1959, by
McGraw-Hill. At that time, it was the first text to deal with problems of
Briefing & Conferencing, a subject the author was teaching US
military-officers for the University of Maryland Overseas, in Europe, North
Africa, and the Middle-East. It was written in an outline-form to make it easy
to use as a handbook. Now, it has been updated as Making Your Point, but the
original principals are still entirely valid.
Of the previously unpublished manuscripts, it must be said that all of them
had been read by editors of major publishing-houses, with general interest and
personal enthusiasm about the texts:" I stayed up all night to finish this!
It's fascinating—and very well-written."
But the final Judgment was always the same: "We're looking for titles that
will sell over 100,000 copies. This one is just too special, too limited in
terms of our audience. If there were a college-course in this subject, it
would make a fine textbook — but no one is teaching such a class..."
"Why don't you write a Best-Seller?"
That is easier said than done.
What I have done instead is revise the previously-published books — to which I
hold the copyright — as well as the unpublished manuscripts, with a scrupulous
re-editing and up-dating where it seemed advisable. Here is a list of titles,
some of which are still in process. Books that are still in print are also
listed below, but they are not available on this website.
GLENN LONEY BOOK SHOP
*Books Still in Print
ARTISTS & ARCHITECTS AT HOME: Interviews & Profiles
AUNT MARGARET'S SCRAPBOOK: Leaves from an English Garden
COMEDY/TRAGEDY/FORM IN DRAMA/Houghton-Mifflin*
CHRISTOPHER FRY IN BRIEF
CREATING CAREERS IN MUSICAL THEATRE
DESIGNING MEN & WOMEN: Dance, Drama, Musical-Theatre, Opera & Beyond
DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY: 1945-1985
DRAMATIZATIONS OF AMERICAN POPULAR NOVELS: 1900-1917
EDITH SITWELL: A Study
EMMA NEVADA: AMERICA'S FIRST OPERA-DIVA
GERMANY TODAY: Arts & Society/West Germany 1970-80s/Radio-Scripts
IN THE WORDS OF: CUE Interviews On-Cue
LIMEY COWBOY + GOLD-COUNTRY DOCTOR
MAKING YOUR POINT: Briefing & Conference Techniques
MOTHER IN SUMMER: A Month in the Country
MOTHER IN WINTER: Nurture vs. Nature
MUSICAL THEATRE IN AMERICA/Greenwood*
OPERA THEATRE, OR CONCERTS IN COSTUME?
PETER BROOK'S RSC PRODUCTION-BOOK: Midsummer Night's Dream / Dramatic Pubs*
PETER BROOK: OXFORD TO ORGHAST/Harwood-Routledge*
PIONEER DRAMAS OF THE GOLDEN WEST + NEVADA CITY THEATRE
THE PLAY OF THE HOUSE OF MiRTH/Assoc. Univ. Presses]*
PROJECTS, PROPOSALS. PAPERS. PERIODS. & PANORAMAS
SAYONARA, YICHI NIMURA
SHAKESPEARE_COMPLEX
STAGING SHAKESPEARE/Garland
STEINBECK COUNTRY: Photo-Adventures
20th-CENTURY THEATRE - Foundations of MODERN THEATRE.INFO
WEST-AFRICAN ARTS HERITAGE
WHO NEEDS THEATRE?
UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE
UNSUING GENIUS: PASSION OF JACK CQLE
USES OF THEATRE HISTORY
YOUNG VIC PRODUCTION BOOK: Frank Dunlap / Jim Dale SCAPINO / Dramatic Pubs*
YOUR FUTURE IN THE PERFORMING ARTS
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