検索キーワード： 制作 "--Tyson Hanks" 都市

For Bryce Derrickson, rejection is nothing new. He’s used to Broadway casting directors seeing his size and assuming he can’t be a graceful dancer. But getting dumped with no notice is a special kind of burn. At least his sweet dog Bobo still loves him. As if being left without warning isn’t bad enough, Bryce’s ex sublets their apartment without telling him, leaving him without a place to live. When his new ‘roommate’ turns out to be a stuffy, elbow-patches-on-blazer, permanent-frown-on-face professor, Bryce is furious. No way will he give up his bohemian pad without a fight.

Dating in the 90s sucks. Meet Jack: twenty-seven-year-old commitment-phobe and serious partier. Meet Amy: while she's stuck in dead-end temp jobs, her friends are settling down and her mother is despairing of her. Now find out what happens when they meet each other. They don't want the same things, they're caught up in the whirlwind of distractions offered by 1990s London and they can only communicate by landline – do they have a chance?

A pandemic has hit Seoul hard, but the beloved convenience store remains a beacon of hope. A year and a half after a former homeless man named Dokgo began working the night shift, the store faces a new challenge. With owner Mrs. Yeom moving to the countryside, her troubled son, Minsik, is left...

Lingo returns from the shadows with a new purpose and unfinished business. Wiser and more dangerous, he’s determined to rebuild where he left off—but this time, he’s not just chasing power. He’s chasing legacy. With Nella by his side and a new wave of loyalty rising around him, Lingo sets his sights on expansion, revenge, and longevity. But the streets don’t forget. Ken is still breathing, still plotting, and more ruthless than ever. As Lingo squares off with old enemies and new snakes, he realizes survival ain’t enough.

When Lili Lowe gets caught having an affair with her married boss, an admired local politician, she finds herself at the epicenter of a scandal that could dismantle her life as she knows it. She turns, as many women would, to her mother. But Lydia Lowe is not the kind of mother to offer gentle words of consolation. Instead she devises a strategy that doesn’t just manage the fallout, it actively exploits it, and Lili goes from making coffee and booking meetings to making headlines and booking talk shows.

A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old ‘dog’ ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their transformed world, as they become divided, as each struggles with their new existence.

All Naya and Jake want is their own home. An island in the kitchen. A wine cooler, maybe… Nothing fancy really. With artisanal coffee shops and microbreweries popping up on every corner, prices are skyrocketing. And as Jake and Naya tour property after property, one thing becomes clear: unless they want to share their home with black mould, they need to find a way to make the market crash. And fast. There's only one thing for it: they're going to have to take matters into their own hands. But how far are they willing to go?

This is an urban tale, adventure fiction taking place in St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Buffalo, NY. We follow the main character, Tommy Quinn from 1964-1977 as he and his friends grow up. The 75 stories take us all around Buffalo and Western New York from St. Thomas Aquinas grade school and Timon High School to The Aud, Mulligans Brick Bar, Crystal Beach, Uncle Sam's and many more funny stories about growing up in Buffalo, NY.

Old Michael Snowdon returns to London with an inheritance that he determines should go towards helping the poor—but goodness and charity are not to play a part here. Everyone has an agenda, and scheming spreads through the story like a disease. Gissing’s own experience of London as an outsider in a vast city that both fascinated and appalled him gave him the tools and the drive to create a visceral sense of place. Life is unremittingly grim for just about everyone, from the weak and well-intentioned Jane to the coarse, cunning Clem Peckover and her feckless rival Pennyloaf Candy.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor.

Nel quartiere di Yotsuya, a Tokyo, c’è un piccolo locale, uno shokudo, specializzato in oden, tipiche zuppe giapponesi, e stuzzichini a base di ingredienti di stagione: dal cavolo fermentato servito a dicembre ai fichi al vapore in salsa di miso a luglio. Rinfrancati dal borbottio dei pentoloni fumanti e dalle novità dei piatti del giorno, gli avventori si stringono lungo il bancone a L per condividere storie e sapori perduti, davanti a un boccale di birra alla spina o a un bicchierino di sakè, mentre Tamazaka Megumi, la proprietaria, si destreggia da sola tra i fornelli e la sala.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.

Giappone, inizi degli anni '70. In un paese già scosso dagli effetti dei violenti moti studenteschi del '68, Ryū, Lily e il loro gruppo di amici gravitano nei dintorni della base militare americana di Yokota, a poche decine di chilometri da Tokyo, di cui frequentano alcuni dei soldati lì di stanza. Vivono una quotidianità scombinata, fatta di un uso costante e ossessionato di qualsiasi sostanza stupefacente si ritrovino a portata di mano, di sesso estremo, di piccoli furti e di qualunque altro comportamento vada a costituire un'anomalia e una sfida alle regole.

Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual expolits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.

Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director, helmed by one of the most electrifying - and narcissistic - Falstaff's of all time.

WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize The Sunday Times Bestseller Best Books of 2022 pick - New York Times, Obama, TIME, Slate, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, LA Times, EW, Sarah Jessica Parker Read by a full cast of narrators, Trust by Hernan Diaz is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer.

Stefano Benni scrisse "Blues in sedici" dieci anni fa, prendendo spunto da un fatto di cronaca degli anni Ottanta. Questa ballata blues era stata pensata per essere letta in pubblico e infatti la sua prima pubblicazione ha conosciuto molte versioni teatrali. Ora il testo viene riproposto con alcune variazioni che la lettura e, soprattutto l'accompagnamento musicale di Paolo Damiani, hanno suggerito. Protagonisti di questa drammatica storia sono l'Indovino cieco, il Padre, la Madre, il Figlio, Lisa, la Città, il Killer, il Teschio.

Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, J. M. Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish Spanish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his “gleaming dentures,” she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world.

Deux jeunes gens se cherchent du regard dans un pub londonien, échangent quelques mots, se revoient. Lui tente de percer dans la photographie, elle est danseuse. Ils partagent la même ambition, les mêmes blessures et bientôt un amour aussi fusionnel que tendre. "Open Water" raconte ce que c'est d'être noir dans une ville qui tantôt vous acclame, tantôt vous rejette. Une ville où l'on vous regarde plutôt que l'on vous voit. Le racisme insidieux qui abîme et la peur qui étreint lorsqu'on sort de chez soi.