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===Books=== Mamet published the essay collection ''Writing in Restaurants'' in 1986, followed by the poetry collection ''The Hero Pony'' in 1990. He has also published a series of short plays, monologues and four novels, ''The Village'' (1994), ''The Old Religion'' (1997), ''Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources'' (2000), and ''Chicago'' (2018). He has written several non-fiction texts, and children's stories, including ''True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor ''(1997). In 2004 he published a lauded version of the classical [[Faust]] story, ''Faustus'', however, when the play was staged in [[San Francisco]] during the spring of 2004, it was not well received by critics.<ref>{{cite web |last=von Buchau |first=Stephanie |title=Dr. Faustus |url=http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/4489 |publisher=TheaterMania |access-date=March 13, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041023060400/http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/4489 |archive-date=October 23, 2004}}</ref> On May 1, 2010, Mamet released a graphic novel ''The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant)''. Mamet detailed his conversion from modern liberalism to "a reformed liberal" in ''The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite web | title=C-SPAN Video: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture |url=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SecretK }}</ref> Mamet published ''Three War Stories'', a collection of novellas, in 2013 ; the novel ''The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet With an Afterword by Mr. Mamet'' in 2019;<ref>{{cite web| url = https://posthillpress.com/book/the-diary-of-a-porn-star-by-priscilla-wriston-ranger-as-told-to-david-mamet-with-an-afterword-by-mr-mamet| title = The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet with an Afterword by Mr. Mamet}}</ref> and the political commentary ''Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch'' in 2022. In 2023 Mamet recounted his experiences in Hollywood and the movie-making industry in ''Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood.''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everywhere-an-Oink-Oink/David-Mamet/9781668026311 |title=Everywhere an Oink Oink |date=2023-12-05 |isbn=978-1-6680-2631-1 |language=en |last1=Mamet |first1=David |publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref>
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