Warm and Cold

by David Mamet, Donald Sultan

A poetic depiction of what keeps you warm when it is cold, from good clothes and steam to the sound of talk and the love that you keep with you wherever you go

Genres: Art

17 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

David Alan Mamet is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for his exploration of masculinity.

As a playwright, he received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997).

Mamet's recent books include The Old Religion (1997), a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary, with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism; and Bambi vs. Godzilla, an acerbic commentary on the movie business.

Reviews

[Greg]

huh?

[Chris Schneider]

Pairing David Mamet with Donald Sultan, a widely shown artist in many major museums, doing a simple picture book together seems like a home run.

It is spare, brief, focusing on a man on a train heading to work. It has a sweetness, but it is so simple it isn't transformative like I hoped.