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Title	Author	Description
Opera and the Morbidity of Music Opera and the Morbidity of Music	Joseph Kerman Kerman	Joseph Kerman examines the ongoing vitality of the classical music tradition, and argues that the recent upsurge of interest in opera is proof of an extremely invigorating and healthy art form.
Mawrdew Czgowchwz Mawrdew Czgowchwz	James McCourt McCourt	James McCourt's entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master. Contributors: Wayne Koestenbaum
Miserable Miracle Miserable Miracle	Henri Michaux Michaux	In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. Contributors: Octavio Paz , Louise Varèse
Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte Memoirs	Lorenzo Da Ponte Ponte	"I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte Contributors: Elisabeth Abbott
Renoir, My Father Renoir, My Father	Jean Renoir Renoir	In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Contributors: Robert L. Herbert , Randolph and Dorothy Weaver
Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell Dime-Store Alchemy	Charles Simic Simic	Full of unexpected riches, Dime-Store Alchemy is both an entrancing meditation on the nature of art and a perfect introduction to a major American artist by a peer.
Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists Born Under Saturn	Margot and Rudolf Wittkower Wittkower	A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution." Contributors: Joseph Connors
The Unknown Masterpiece Unknown Masterpiece	Honoré de Balzac Balzac	The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cézanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Contributors: Arthur C. Danto , Richard Howard
From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance From Heaven to Arcadia	Ingrid D. Rowland Rowland	In these essays, most of them originally published in The New York Review of Books, Ingrid Rowland explores topics in the art and culture of Renaissance Italy.
Doing It: Five Performing Arts Doing It: Five Performing Arts	Robert B. Silvers Silvers	In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts.