Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, a rollickingly updated edition of LIVE FROM NEW YORK with nearly 100 new pages covering the past decade.
James Andrew Miller has worked in virtually all aspects of journalism - as well as on the entertainment side of television production and development - for more than twenty years. Along with Tom Shales, he is the author of the #1 bestseller Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN.Tom Shales is America's foremost television critic, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1989. For twenty-five years, he was film critic for National Public Radio.
"TheSNL book."--Bill Hader, New York Times Book Review
"Live From New York is the most complete history of Saturday Night
Live, and the 40th anniversary edition is bigger and even better
than the acclaimed original, adding a new constellation of stars
and controversies."--Alan Petrucelli, Examiner
"[An] invaluable oral history tome."--Kristopher Tapley, HitFix
"A dream journal of epic proportions. This is what lifelong fans
had been clamoring for: an oral history of its birth and reception,
production and creative process, and celebrity and political
machinery, as told by the people who were there.... If you've
devoured either of the previous editions, you'll exult about more
than 200 new pages.... It is as compelling to loyalists,
reminiscent to occasional viewers, and educational to show novices
as any book about this institution is likely to attract."--Ben
Siegel, Buffalo News
"A guilty pleasure of the highest order....Live From New York
shines."--Lev Grossman, Time
"A patchwork of backbiting, humor, intelligence, backbiting,
gossip, backbiting, and backbiting."--Newsweek
"A sharp-clawed, incisive account of how nearly three decades'
worth of comic talent has emerged from a single television
show."--Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Adding a constellation of stars, controversies, and surprises,
this edition is even better than the original. The authors assemble
and celebrate what has made SNL a beloved series: the manic energy,
breakneck pace, outrageous personalities, backstage rivalries, and
the sketches that kill."--Daniel Solzman, Flicksided
"An extensive update of the 2002 best-seller."--Lisa de Moraes,
Deadline
"An incredible read."--Vulture
"As comprehensive [a] behind-the-scenes look of the iconic NBC show
as you'll ever find.... If you're even a casual fan of Saturday
Night Live, there's some nugget of information you'll appreciate
within the book's pages.'"--Kelly Konrad, ChicagoNow
"Pulls back the curtain on the last 12 years of Saturday Night
Live."--NPR
"Refreshing....Shales and Miller paint a detailed landscape
portrait of what has become an American cultural icon, one that
will guide any attentive reader to a fuller understanding of
comedy, TV, and the culture itself."--Steve Johnson, Chicago
Tribune
"Required reading for any Saturday Night obsessive."--Entertainment
Weekly
"The definitive history of SNL."--People
"Tremendous fun."--Rob Walker, Newsday
"What Hollywood is reading."--Mike Allen, Politico
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