John Leonard (critic) - Selected Works

Selected Works

Books
  • The Naked Martini (1964)
  • Wyke Regis (1966)
  • Crybaby of the Western World (1969)
  • Black Conceit (1973)
  • This Pen for Hire (1973)
  • Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)
  • The Last Innocent White Man in America (1994)
  • Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television, and Other American Cultures (1997)
  • When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm Suckers, Satanic Therapists and Those of Us Who Hold a Left-Wing Grudge in the Post-Toasties New World Hip-Hop (1999)
  • Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures (2002)
  • Reading for My Life (2012)
Essays and introductions by Leonard feature in
  • "Why I'll Never Finish My Mystery", Murder, Ink (1977)
  • Friends and Friends of Friends, by Bernard Pierre Wolff (1978)
  • "Dodgerisimus", The Ultimate Baseball Book, by Daniel Okrent and Harris Lewine (1979)
  • Man’s Fate by Andre Malraux (1984)
  • SoHo: A Picture Portrait (1985)
  • "Ten (or Twenty) of the Best Books of the Millennium", The Millennium Book by Gail Collins and Dan Collins (1991)
  • A Really Big Show: A Visual History of The Ed Sullivan Show (1992)
  • "Educating Television", Imagining Education: The Media and Schools in America, by Gene I. Maeroff (1988)
  • "Follow the Bouncing Ball: How the Caged Bird Learns to Sing", The Business of Journalism, by William Serrin (2000)
  • These United States (introduction and editor, 2003)
  • The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (2004)
  • We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: The Collected Nonfiction of Joan Didion (2006)

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