A fascinating compilation, with extensive background information included.
"Finishing the Hat" — a fascinating compilation of lyrics, commentary and anecdotes, covering the years 1954 to 1981 — is essentially about process, the process of writing songs for theater.
Ever since I was stationed in New Mexico as a young soldier during the Korean War, I have been passionate about Tex-Mex food, and found the book to be a fascinating compilation of history and anecdotes about its development.
There is also a fascinating historical compilation of Hänssler Profil, in which Vladimir Sofronitsky, who married Scriabin's daughter and was a Petrograd conservatoire contemporary of Shostakovich, plays all the sonatas except the seventh, with a live account by Sviatoslav Richter included for the missing work.
If you have only a vague idea of the sorts of things the Viennese Actionist Günter Brus did back in the 1960's to earn himself a six-month prison sentence, you should see the fascinating compilation of films and recorded performances on view here along with his recent drawings.
This fascinating compilation charts their brave, doomed attempts, from Velvet Underground-ish noise barrage to orchestrated crooning.
There's a further treasure in Early Murnau: Five Films 1921-1925 (Eureka, PG), a fascinating, deep-cut compilation of the German expressionist's less celebrated silent work, from class-conscious murder mystery The Haunted Castle to smoky psychological reverie Phantom, a glorious apparition thought lost until a decade ago.
Died On Stage www.snopes.com/spoons/noose/ dead.htm A fascinating -- if morbid -- compilation of some of the show people who drew their last breath on the job.
Although hard to find, "Selected Writings of Bolívar, 1810-1830," in two volumes, edited by Harold A. Bierck, Jr. (Bolivarian Society of Venezuela and the Colonial Press, 1951), is a fascinating, well-translated English-language compilation of Bolívar's letters, proclamations, and public addresses.
These and other topics shed light on a fascinating organism, but the book is more than a compilation of facts.
A fascinating, fascinating man.
