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The Garner FilesThe New York Times bestseller, an intimate and revealing memoir from Hollywood's original maverick, James Garner, now available in paperback.Read More
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NPR, April 18, 2012
...you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." , edited by Jon Winokur, is a collection of quotations on the writer's craft. The book offers nothing less than the collective trench wisdom of generations of great authors: Mark Twain...
NPR, April 18, 2012
...you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." , edited by Jon Winokur, is a collection of quotations on the writer's craft. The book offers nothing less than the collective trench wisdom of generations of great authors: Mark Twain...
Palisadian Post, March 29, 2012
...included poetry, short story and memoir. Judges were Gedda Ilves and Annette Robinson for poetry; Alan Eisenstock and Jon Winokur for memoir; and Claire LaZebnik and Matt Witten for short story. Actors Bill Jones and Christine Kludjian performed the...
NewsOK.com, February 22, 2012
...actor's tell-all autobiography, “The Garner Files: A Memoir” (Simon & Schuster, $25.99). Co-written with veteran editor Jon Winokur (appropriately enough, author of several “Portable Curmudgeon” collections), Garner's frank recollections offer up...
Lincoln Journal Star, January 30, 2012
...(Simon & Schuster) Loading… "The Garner Files" by James Garner and Jon Winokur, Simon & Schuster, 271 pages, $25.99 Depending on how old you are, you may remember the handsome and muscular James Garner as Bret Maverick, in the series of...
MySanAntonio, December 11, 2011
...THE GARNER FILES: A MEMOIR BY JAMES GARNER AND JON WINOKUR SIMON & SCHUSTER, $25.99 Better not say anything nasty to his face about “The Garner Files” or actor James Garner might just haul off and deck you. Garner...
Huffington Post, December 6, 2011
...everything you need to know, and he doesn't shy away from the salacious. 8. The Portable Curmudgeon , Jon Winokur, editor I've had this book since high school. I've memorized most of the quotes in it. And they are almost all worth memorizing. ...
Louisville Courier-Journal, February 25, 2012
...books and their subjects, starting with my unlikely favorite: “The Garner Files: A Memoir,” by James Garner and Jon Winokur, Simon & Schuster, 273 pages, $25.99. I loved that I could hear James Garner’s voice in the words I read on the page. I also...
NewsOK.com, February 22, 2012
...actor's tell-all autobiography, “The Garner Files: A Memoir” (Simon & Schuster, $25.99). Co-written with veteran editor Jon Winokur (appropriately enough, author of several “Portable Curmudgeon” collections), Garner's frank recollections offer up...
Lincoln Journal Star, January 30, 2012
..."The Garner Files" by James Garner and Jon Winokur, Simon & Schuster, 271 pages, $25.99 Depending on how old you are, you may remember the handsome and muscular James Garner as Bret Maverick, in the series of...
Lincoln Journal Star, January 30, 2012
...(Simon & Schuster) Loading… "The Garner Files" by James Garner and Jon Winokur, Simon & Schuster, 271 pages, $25.99 Depending on how old you are, you may remember the handsome and muscular James Garner as Bret Maverick, in the series of...
City Room, October 3, 2011
...bad-tempered person; a cantankerous fellow.” Its notion of cantankerous is “bad-tempered; quarrelsome.” That’s not right. Just ask Jon Winokur, a writer and editor who knows a thing or two about curmudgeons. In 1987, he compiled a book called...
iTREVINO, June 13, 2011
..."Zen" has become almost meaningless, reducing the ancient practice to a mere advertising modifier. And not just recently. Jon Winokur's delightful 2005 book Zen to Go laments the abuse of the deeply spiritual word to hawk everything from Playtex Body Zen...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com, June 13, 2011
..."Zen" has become almost meaningless, reducing the ancient practice to a mere advertising modifier. And not just recently. Jon Winokur's delightful 2005 book Zen to Go laments the abuse of the deeply spiritual word to hawk everything from Playtex Body Zen...
