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Isaac Butler is the author of the NBCC Award winner The Method and the coauthor of The World Only Spins Forward. Butler’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, Slate, American Theatre, and more. For Slate, he created and hosted Lend Me Your Ears, a podcast about Shakespeare and politics, and Working, a podcast about the creative process. He is the co-creator of Real Enemies, a multimedia exploration of conspiracy theories in the American psyche. Butler holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota and teaches theater history and performance at the New School, NYU, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.

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	The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler, Dan Kois (Goodreads Author) 4.59 avg rating — 930 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act 4.27 avg rating — 989 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky Alan: And Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem, Mark Deakins (Narrator), David Wain (Narrator) 3.08 avg rating — 976 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Método: Cómo aprendió el siglo XX el arte de la actuación by Isaac Butler, Manuel De La Fuente (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Is Othello Black? liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Método: Cómo aprendió el siglo XX el arte de la actuación (Libros Singulares (LS)) by Isaac Butler, Manuel De La Fuente (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Acting with Adler by Joanna Rotté, Isaac Butler (foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You don’t play being the king, everyone around you plays that you are king.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

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“A few months into the run, the woman who gave me my massage on Fridays before the show said, “It’s the weirdest thing. You seem to be developing wing muscles.” Because there were these ridges of muscle I’d developed alongside my spine where I flexed the wings, opening and closing them.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

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“You are fabulous creatures, each and every one.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

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