Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art by Wasson, Sam
Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art by Wasson, Sam

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art

A finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award "A compelling, absolutely unputdownable story . . ....
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Author: Sam Wasson
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Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art by Wasson, Sam

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art

$37.43
Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art by Wasson, Sam

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art

$37.43
Author: Sam Wasson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award

"A compelling, absolutely unputdownable story . . . And, in case you're wondering, yes, the book is funny. In places, very funny. A remarkable story, magnificently told." -- Booklist


In this richly reported, scene-driven narrative, Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv from its unlikely beginnings in McCarthy-era Chicago. We witness the chance meeting between Mike Nichols and Elaine May, hang out at the after-hours bar where Dan Aykroyd hosted friends like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner, and go behind the scenes of cultural landmarks from The Graduate to The Colbert Report. Along the way, we befriend pioneers such as Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Alan Arkin, Tina Fey, Judd Apatow, and many others. Wasson shows why improv deserves to be considered the great American art form of the last half century.

"One of the most important stories in American popular culture . . . Wasson may be the first author to explain [improv's] entire history . . . For that reason alone, it's a valuable book." -- New York Times Book Review

"A compelling history . . . It holds the element of surprise--true to the spirit of its subject." -- Entertainment Weekly

Author: Sam Wasson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781328508003

About the Author
SAM WASSON is the author of five books, including the best-selling Fosse and Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. At Wesleyan University he joined the Desperate Measures improv troupe, cofounded its annual twenty-four-hour show, and earned limited admiration for his parody of Virginia Woolf.
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