Twee : The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion and Film (9780062213051)

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by Spitz, Marc


  The Phantom Tollbooth —Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer

  Weetzie Bat—Francesca Lia Block

  The Night Kitchen—Maurice Sendak

  A Scene In Between—Sam Knee

  Forever . . . —Judy Blume

  The Awful Rowing Toward God —Anne Sexton

  Where the Sidewalk Ends —Shel Silverstein

  Breakfast at Tiffany’s—Truman Capote

  Peanuts: The Complete Collection —Charles M. Schulz

  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction —J. D. Salinger

  Candy Girl—Diablo Cody

  Higglety Pigglety Pop!—Maurice Sendak

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory —Roald Dahl

  Eightball—Daniel Clowes

  The Red Balloon—Albert Lamorisse

  The Little Prince —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Frog and Toad Are Friends —Arnold Lobel

  The Cat in the Hat—Dr. Seuss

  Goodnight Moon —Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd

  The Wind in the Willows —Kenneth Grahame

  How to Sharpen Pencils—David Rees

  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe —C. S. Lewis

  Live Forever—Elizabeth Peyton

  The Wes Anderson Collection —Matthew Zoller Seitz

  Rookie Yearbook One —Rookie staff, Tavi Gevinson, editor

  The Double Life Is Twice as Good —Jonathan Ames

  Autobiography—Morrissey

  My Areas of Expertise—John Hodgman

  How the Grinch Stole Christmas —Dr. Seuss

  Rip It Up and Start Again —Simon Reynolds

  Matilda—Roald Dahl

  Nine Stories—J. D. Salinger

  A Cricket in Times Square —George Selden and Garth Williams

  Revolution in the Head —Ian MacDonald

  England’s Dreaming—Jon Savage

  The Pitchfork 500—Pitchfork staff

  Our Band Could Be Your Life —Michael Azerrad

  The Songs That Saved Your Life —Simon Goddard

  A Queue for Many Warm and Quiet Evenings In

  Moonrise Kingdom—Wes Anderson

  The Graduate—Mike Nichols

  A Charlie Brown Christmas —Bill Melendez

  Breathless—Jean-Luc Godard

  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer —Rankin and Bass

  The Royal Tenenbaums—Wes Anderson

  Kicking and Screaming —Noah Baumbach

  Gregory’s Girl—William Forsyth

  Rushmore—Wes Anderson

  The 400 Blows—François Truffaut

  The Ice Storm—Ang Lee

  Garden State—Zach Braff

  Harold and Maude—Hal Ashby

  Superbad—Greg Mottola

  The Diary of Anne Frank —George Stevens

  Grey Gardens —Albert and David Maysles

  Funny Ha Ha—Andrew Bujalski

  Juno—Jason Reitman

  The Virgin Suicides—Sofia Coppola

  Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory —Mel Stuart

  Pinocchio—Ben Sharpstein and Hamilton Luske

  Donnie Darko—Richard Kelly

  Bugsy Malone—Alan Parker

  (500) Days of Summer—Marc Webb

  The Puffy Chair—Mark and Jay Duplass

  Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco—Whit Stillman

  The Squid and the Whale —Noah Baumbach

  Me and You and Everyone We Know—Miranda July

  The Future—Miranda July

  Humpday—Lynn Shelton

  Fast Times at Ridgemont High —Amy Heckerling

  Tiny Furniture—Lena Dunham

  Powers of Ten—Charles and Ray Eames

  Napoleon Dynamite—Jared Hess

  Young Adult—Jason Reitman

  Daria: The Complete Animated Series

  Fans Only—Belle and Sebastian

  Splendor in the Grass—Elia Kazan

  Yellow Submarine—George Dunning

  The Magnificent Ambersons—Orson Welles

  The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T —Dr. Seuss

  Pee-wee’s Big Adventure—Tim Burton

  Heathers—Michael Lehman

  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind—Michel Gondry

  Clueless—Amy Heckerling

  The Fantastic Mr. Fox—Wes Anderson

  A Taste of Honey—Tony Richardson

  Greenberg—Noah Baumbach

  Amelie—Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Welcome to the Dollhouse—Todd Solondz

  Lost in Translation—Sofia Coppola

  Be Kind Rewind—Michel Gondry

  Bambi—David Hand

  The L-Shaped Room—Bryan Forbes

  Hotel Chevalier/The Darjeeling Limited —Wes Anderson

  Hannah Takes the Stairs—Joe Swanberg

  Beginners—Mike Mills

  Rebel Without a Cause—Nicholas Ray

  Henry Fool—Hal Hartley

  Storytelling—Todd Solondz

  The Do-Deca-Pentathlon —Jay and Mark Duplass

  High Fidelity—Stephen Frears

  Your Sister’s Sister—Lynn Shelton

  Lady and the Tramp —Clyde Geronimi

  Girls (seasons 1–3)—Lena Dunham

  Cyrus—Jay and Mark Duplass

  The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner—Tony Richardson

  Dark Horse—Todd Solondz

  The Science of Sleep—Michel Gondry

  Frances Ha—Noah Baumbach

  Touchy Feely—Lynn Shelton

  Drinking Buddies—Joe Swanberg

  Computer Chess—Andrew Bujalski

  The Grand Budapest Hotel—Wes Anderson

  Acknowledgments

  Special thank you to James Fitzgerald and Carrie Thornton for being my partners on this book and the calm voices through my strange and loud career. The following people look like kittens: Calvert Morgan, Lynn Grady, Kevin Callahan, Michael Barrs, Brittany Hamblin, Amanda Kain, Joseph Papa, Trina Hunn, Tracey Pepper, Lizzy Goodman, Joni Mitchell and Jerry Orbach (Basset kittens), my parents, Sid Spitz, Al Josephberg and Ricki Josephberg, Chris Eigeman, Maureen Callahan, Robert Cox, Adam Kersh, Megan Davey, Joshua Seftel, Nils Bernstein, Justin Rice, Brian Bumbery, Joan Uhelszkin, Matthew King Kaufman, Bonnie Thornton, Marc Maron, George Gurley, Dr. Dori Fromer, Dr. Robert Levine, Lauretta Charlton, Michael Bonner, Michael Hogan, Roger Greenberg, Fisher & Sons, Steven Daly, Simon Reynolds, Rob Gelardi and all at XOU, Richard Allen and everyone at Black and White, Nick Bodor and everyone at the Library, Soho, Hal Horowitz, Felder and Schustack Mgmt, Kirsten Ames, Jill Landaker, and Steven Barclay.

  Please visit www.marcspitz.com for information on all of

  Marc Adam Spitz’s books, plays, journalism, and other writing,

  as well as weekly essays and special features.

  Follow Marc at @marcspitz on Twitter and on Facebook at

  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marc-Spitz/179985432068973

  About the Author

  MARC SPITZ is an author, playwright, and journalist. His books include Bowie: A Biography and Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue, as well as two novels: the cult classic How Soon Is Never? and Too Much, Too Late. He has also published a memoir, Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the ’90s. He was formerly a senior writer at Spin magazine, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Maxim, Vanity Fair, New York, Uncut, and the New York Times. He lives in New York City.

  Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors.

  Also by Marc Spitz

  Fiction

  How Soon Is Never?

  Too Much, Too Late

  Nonfiction

  We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

  (with Brendan Mullen)

  Nobody Likes You: Inside the

  Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day

  Bowie: A Biography

  Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue

  Poseur: A Mem
oir of Downtown

  New York City in the ’90s

  Credits

  Cover design by Amanda Kain

  Cover illustration © Diane Labombarbe / Getty Images

  Copyright

  TWEE. Copyright © 2014 by Marc Spitz. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  ISBN 978-0-06-221304-4

  EPUB Edition June 2014 ISBN 9780062213051

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