Sayles on Sayles

Sayles on Sayles
Author: John Sayles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 277
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780571192809

Interviews with John Sayles who worked on such widely varied projects as The return of the Secaucus seven; Baby, it's you; Brother from another planet; Matewan; Passion fish; Piranha; Alligator; The howling; Apollo 13; City of hope, Lone star; Shannon's deal.

Yellow Earth

Yellow Earth
Author: John Sayles
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1642590789

In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.

John Sayles

John Sayles
Author: John Sayles
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781578061389

Part of the "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, these interviews span Sayles's 20-year career as a writer, director, and sometimes actor. Photos. Filmography.

A Moment in the Sun

A Moment in the Sun
Author: John Sayles
Publisher: McSweeney's
Total Pages: 1293
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936365707

It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.

Thinking In Pictures

Thinking In Pictures
Author: John Sayles
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003-07-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780306812668

What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of the Secaucus Seven, Sayles's first movie as director and writer, was produced with 60,000 of his own money. Many films later, he still works outside the studio system and guides every phase of his productions.Now Sayles has written an illuminating book about the complex choices that lie at the heart of every movie. Using the making of his film Matewan as an example, he offers chapters on screenwriting, directing, editing, sound, and more. Photographs, sketches, and the complete shooting script illustrate this engaging account of how Sayles's curiosity about a coal miners' strike in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, became a screenplay--and then a movie.

The Cinema of John Sayles

The Cinema of John Sayles
Author: Mark Bould
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Through discussion of films such as 'Return of the Secaucus 7', 'The Brother from Another Planet' 'Matewan' and 'Sunshine State', this study uncovers themes of racial and sexual otherness, capitalist excess and the erosion of community in the work of John Sayles.

Union Dues

Union Dues
Author: John Sayles
Publisher: Nation Books
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2005-12-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781560257301

The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It's a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions. His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him. Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.

Los Gusanos

Los Gusanos
Author: John Sayles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 473
Release: 1992-08
Genre: Cuban Americans
ISBN: 9780140156652

Her Secret Life

Her Secret Life
Author: Ginie Sayles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781450236218

AN IMPORTANT NOVEL BY A NOTED AUTHOR A Woman Caught Between Two Worlds "Wonderful! Her Secret Life is an intelligent, daring saga of love set in the true events of a fascinating era. It is the most original book I have ever read. This author writes with passion and verve!" This book is HOT! Experience forbidden love and sensuality that sizzle with extra Z's! ..".I LOVE this book!" From the moment you meet her, you like Kytra Bradshaw. She is part of every woman. And she is a woman caught in a time period with conditions beyond her control. Only 4 months after she is bartered in marriage to a rich man in order to satisfy her father's secret revenge; Kytra falls in love with another man. His way of life and unexpected events threaten to make their love impossible. Suddenly trapped between two worlds, she shocks you, charms you, and keeps you fascinated and cheering for her until the thrilling end. "A 'Good' Bad Girl you will love reading about." Women can innocently become 'Good' bad girls. We have good intentions and we have weaknesses. This is the battle we all fight in life. It is easy to be good if there is no temptation. Not mean or cruel, just battling moral choices between head and heart. That is why I took an inherently good, kind, and tenderhearted girl and emphasized the battle within us all by putting her in circumstances where being good or bad sometimes blur. The choices she makes, some good, some bad, reveal a woman whose heart and motives we understand. - Ginie Sayles A popular media personality, author Ginie Sayles completed college as a single mom on welfare and a student loan. She founded The Ginie Sayles Scholarship For Single Parents with royalty from one of her books. Ginie and husband Reed Sayles are native Texans.

How to Meet the Rich

How to Meet the Rich
Author: Ginie Sayles
Publisher: Authors Choice Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780595367238

Ginie Sayles shows you how to meet, mix, and mingle with the wealthy as you learn: 6 key profiles of the rich-- where they live, how they work, what they want & what they look for in you; the 14 layers of class and how to get them; power dressing; find rich clients for your business; the 3 steps to enter society; your social personality; upgrade your humble abode with class inexpensively; love patterns of the rich; rich sex.