Danny Peary's Books
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Roger MarisRoger Maris: The Life of Baseball's Reluctant Hero is the first definitive biography of the life and career of baseball legend Maris.Read More
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Newsday, March 26, 2013
...pre-Stepfordized creatures popping out of pods and taking over the identities of ordinary, God-fearing Americans. As Long Islander Danny Peary writes in his seminal "Cult Movies" (1981): "The pod people represent a completely regimented society....
East Hampton Star, October 5, 2012
...Tom Clavin and Danny Peary New American Library, $26.95 You know the joke. A Brooklynite has a gun with two bullets in it in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Walter O’Malley...
Media Bistro, September 24, 2012
...Pitching An Agent: Mendel Media Group Number of agents: One Number of clients: 30 Notable clients: Tom Clavin, Danny Peary, Dr. Georgia Witkin, Dan Dunn and Jason Lethcoe Amount of unsolicited material selected: 10 percent Fiction vs....
Sag Harbor Express, August 11, 2012
...journalist of the late baseball player Gil Hodges, the subject of Clavin’s latest non-fiction effort with co-writer Danny Peary; Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, The Miracle Mets and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend. A class act, perhaps,...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 6, 2012
...The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend" by Tom Clavin and Danny Peary (New American Library, Hardcover, 403 pages with photos, $26.95) gives readers a unique opportunity to look back at one of the most...
Home News Tribune, August 5, 2012
...The Brooklyn Bums, The Miracle Mets, and The Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend by Tom Clavin and Danny Peary (NAL, $26.95. non-fiction, on sale Aug. 7) What it's about: The story of the first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers and later manager of...
North Adams Transcript, May 31, 2013
...worst way to go out?" Schwarz first encountered the films of John Waters and his muse, Divine, in Danny Peary's 1981 book "Cult Movies." The first Waters film Schwarz actually saw in the theater was "Hairspray." In college, about the same time that...
North Adams Transcript, May 31, 2013
...worst way to go out?" Schwarz first encountered the films of John Waters and his muse, Divine, in Danny Peary’s 1981 book "Cult Movies." The first Waters film Schwarz actually saw in the theater was "Hairspray." In college, about the same time that...
Filmink, May 24, 2013
...FilmInk’s Danny Peary speaks to the co-directors behind the intimate doco ‘The Genius of Marian’, which explores the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease via a family lens. Just before her sixtieth birthday...
Filmink, May 14, 2013
...FilmInk’s Danny Peary sits down with Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado – touted as leading a new generation of horror filmmakers – to discuss their mesmerising but challenging revenge thriller...
IFC TV, January 7, 2013
...About 20 years ago, writer Danny Peary published “Alternate Oscars,” a book in which he went back and second-guessed every Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Actress, and Actor since the Oscars’ early days of the...
Herald Scotland, January 4, 2013
...the better part of 20 years with a book called Guide For The Film Fanatic by American critic Danny Peary: I've currently seen 989 of the 1500-plus movies (ranging from midnight schlock to foreign arthouse) he recommends for a complete take on cinema. ...
Huffington Post, November 26, 2012
...This is the second entry in my periodic continuation of film critic Danny Peary's entertaining 'Alternate Oscars.' Today, we look at 1993. Picture : Schindler's List essentially won Best Picture the day it was released. Nobody debated this. It was...
