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For #NationalAuthorsDay: My Two Favorite Books

All the Commandments May Be Found in These Two Tablets

It’s National Authors Day! I guess I would be remiss in my duties indeed if I did not use the opportunity to recommend my favorite author and two favorite books. Here’s how to get:

No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (2005) 

Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube (2013)

Which reminds me — I guess it’s about time for a new one, huh?

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.