A quick reference for non-French speakers provides explanations for several often-used French expressions that have crept into the English language. By the author of The Portable Curmudgeon. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

Je ne Sais What? A Guide to de rigueur Frenglish for Readers, Writers, and Speakers (English and French Edition)

Reference

Jon Winokur

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Dutton Adult

Authors discuss aspects of their profession including publishers, fame, grammar, plagiarism, work habits, and writer's block

Writers on Writing

Words, Language & Grammar

Headline

Running Press

Writers on writing

After suffering physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother, Garner left home at fourteen. He became Oklahoma’s first draftee of the Korean War and was awarded with two Purple Hearts before returning to the United States and settling in Los Angeles to become an actor. Working alongside some of the most renowned celebrities, including Julie Andrews, Marlon Brando, and Clint Eastwood, Garner became a star in his own right, despite struggles with stage fright and depression. In The Garner Files, this revered actor and quintessential self-made man recalls “trying to decipher” William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, breaking Doris Day’s ribs, having a “heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball” with Steve McQueen, being “a card-carrying liberal—and proud of it,” and much more

The Garner Files: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

James Garner

Arts & Literature

Simon&Schuster

Told in the charming and self-deprecating style that has made him one of America's most beloved celebrities--the real story behind Hollywood legend James Garner, from his Depression-era childhood to his colorful career. His incredible story, in his own words. One of Hollywood's all-time great leading men, James Garner enjoyed a remarkable career spanning six decades, and whether you know him as Bret Maverick or Jim Rockford, his appeal bridges generations. Few know the real story, now told in this intimate memoir of growing up in Depression-era Oklahoma and triumphing in Hollywood. After physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother, Garner left home at fourteen. He was Oklahoma's first draftee of the Korean War, receiving two Purple Hearts for combat wounds. Back in Los Angeles in need of a job, Garner reluctantly tried acting and was surprised to find his career taking off. Working with such luminaries as Julie Andrews, Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, and Clint Eastwood, he became a star in his own right. He threw himself into his work, and despite stage fright and bouts of depression, constant physical pain and epic battles with the Hollywood establishment, he became the acting equivalent of a national monument. Written with Jon Winokur, The Garner Files is a wry, engaging self-portrait chronicling the vagaries of a screen career along with the cast of personal and professional characters that helped shape a great American life.

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One of Hollywood's all-time great leading men, James Garner enjoyed a remarkable career spanning six decades, and whether you know him as Bret Maverick or Jim Rockford, his appeal bridges generations. Few know the real story, now told in this intimate memoir of growing up in Depression-era Oklahoma and triumphing in Hollywood. Written with Jon Winokur, The Garner Files is a wry, engaging self-portrait chronicling the vagaries of a screen career along with the cast of personal and professional characters that helped shape a great American life.

The Garner Files, a Memoir (Large Print Edition)

MGB Productions, Inc.

How to Win at Golf Without Playing It Well

Sports & Outdoors

Golf

Pavilion Books

Advice to Writers

In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.

Pavilion

Here at last is a guide to winning at golf that tells you how to dominate your opponents- not by out-playing them but by out-thinking them. Golf is so complex and demanding a game, so fickle and perverse, that even its masters never truly master it. But, Jon Winokur assures us in this entertaining and eminently practical manual, if you can't play golf consistently well, you can at least win consistently. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Winokur provides various tried and true gamesmanship techniques with which to gain the advantage, from the most subtle psychological warfare to the carefully stifled sneeze. Filled with wry humour, peppered with tips, quotes, and anecdotes from golf's greats, and illustrated throughout, this book is indispensable for anyone who would win at golf without actually playing well.

How to Win at Golf : Without Actually Playing Well

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Books by Jon Winokur

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Je ne Sais What? A Guide to de rigueur Frenglish for Readers, Writers, and Speakers (English and French Edition)

Writers on Writing

Writers on Writing

Writers on writing

The Garner Files: A Memoir

The Garner Files: A Memoir

The Garner Files, a Memoir (Large Print Edition)

How to Win at Golf Without Playing It Well

Advice to Writers

How to Win at Golf : Without Actually Playing Well