Terry Gilliam, “Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir” — He’s the least recognizable member of Monty Python, and its sole American. Yet some would argue Gilliam’s contribution to film looms just as larger as his British colleagues. Now, the director behind “Brazil,” “Time Bandits” and “The Fisher King” looks back at his life with the expected crush of anecdote sure to be devoured by the Python faithful. And despite the silly title, Gilliam is still very much alive, thank you, despite recent reports to the contrary.
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Born in Minneapolis, but reared in L.A. starting at the age of 10, his rise to fame across the pond proved groundbreaking in more ways than one. He brought discipline and a madcap visual wit to Monty Python, but his career wouldn’t begin and end with the comedy troupe.
The memoir teems with handwritten asides and copious illustrations, a sampling of the author’s eye for gaudy but humorous illustrations. The book also includes a maddeningly look at the Hollywood creative process, where the director suffers fool upon fool while bringing his visions to the big screen.
Gilliam is no rock-ribbed conservative, but “Gilliameque” finds the comic innovator trumpeting the need to know the Bible as key to Western culture.
A.E. Hotchner, “Hemingway in Love” — Our culture is obsessed with not only the works of Ernest Hemingway but his colorful, often combative life. Hotchner knew Hemingway well, right up until the legendary’s author’s death by his own hands.
Now, Hotchner gathers Hemingway’s romantic exploits, confessions and more into one tome. “Love” recalls the author’s affairs, regrets and how those relationships poured out onto the pages of his most important novels.
Hotchner kept those secrets to himself since Hemingway’s death in 1961. Now, the secrets will be revealed for Hemingway purists to examine at great length and match to his fictional heroes.
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