Created by Matt Zoller Seitz
Directed by Judith Carter
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami
Welcome to MZS.press where biblio-cinephiles find the books they love!
Make sure to check the expanded products and categories by clicking on any image.
Thanks for dropping by the store and supporting our books, the Arts & us! MZS is showing off his dance moves in celebration of knowing you're here. And trust me, that's a sight to behold!
So apparently Santa was a little saucy while scouting for the big day and left his bag here...
DUDE!!! This thing is CRAZY! It just keeps dumping out all these cool books and merch. It's like a magic hat but bigger, better and cooler!!! I can't believe it, he's thought of everyone. So comeback often as new things keep appearing constantly. And get yourself a little holiday Cheer!
Books by our creator and namesake, MZS - Matt Zoller Seitz. Whether we published or he singularly authored the book, co-authored, wrote the introduction or was a contributor, here is where you can find all of those we carry. All available with signatures or without.
From the vast, cold silence of space to the post-apocalyptic wastelands. From the shires of Middle Earth to the kaiju battlefields of Monster Island to the rumbling depths of the Death Star...This is Genres! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Westerns, Crime, plus dedicated categories for some of our favorite subgenres, including giant monster movies, the Alien and Mad Max franchises, Star Wars, and Star Trek!
Books on Blade Runner, Close Encounters, Planet of the Apes, The Matrix, superheroes, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, RoboCop, Twilight Zone, American Gods and Doctor Who can also be found here. To infinity and beyond!
A collection of books, fiction and nonfiction, that either served as source material for a work in another medium—or could. Also consider, two subcategories in this store: Adapted (work that has been adapted) and Adaptable (not adapted yet). Basically, this is Lit that's LIT! Yes, I did that, don't judge...please??
The latest additions to our inventory: new to the store books, books back in stock, new releases and older titles that we've just started carrying, in all collections and genres.
All books are signed by either author, photographer, creator or the subject of the book. Many are limited editions and most can only be found here at MZS.Press!
MZS.Press is the online arts bookstore founded by author, critic, and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz and directed by Judith Carter. It offers new, used, signed, collectible, and rare books on film, TV, music, photography, and the visual arts. The store was launched in 2019 on a different platform and has expanded to incorporate arts books published by MZSPress's private imprint: titles currently include Seitz's The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon and Dreams of Deadwood, about the HBO Western, and Walter Chaw's A Walter Hill Film.
Our deepest wish is to promote, encourage, and distribute work by small presses, academic presses, and individuals. Extraordinary work tends to get swallowed up on giant platforms like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The store's inventory of nearly 1000 volumes is currently in the process of being reconstructed after its relocation from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas. The titles featured here are personally selected by a group of curators and advisors, including Seitz, Carter, and an array of critics, artists, journalists, educators, publishers, and arts mavens who are known for their ability to suss out what Seitz's jazz musician dad liked to call "the good sh*t."
"I feel comfortable using legal jargon in everyday life... I object!" Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Legally Blonde, 2001
Matt Zoller Seitz
Critic, Author, Filmmaker, MZS Press Creator
Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large and film critic of RogerEbert.com; Features Writer for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, Contributing Writer for D Magazine and Texas Highways as well as finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and TV has appeared in Sight and Sound, The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Rolling Stone. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine.
Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours’ worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets such as Texas Highways and AARP. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers.
Other Seitz books include the New York Times bestsellers The Sopranos Sessions and Mad Men Carousel; TV (The Book), The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon, and The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch. He is also an interviewer, moderator, and film programmer who has curated and hosted film and TV presentations for the Museum of the Moving Image, IFC Center, San Francisco's Roxie Cinema, and other venues. He has launched a Dallas extension of his MZS Film Series at the historic Texas Theater. On October 3-6, 2024 he brought the legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone back to Dallas for a historic return to the city and the Texas Theatre!
Judith is quoted as saying "his hobbies include exotic dancing, moonwalking, and affixing masking tape labels to every food item in the refrigerator, including eggs. Oh and he has the attention span of a gnat." MZS agreed to it all except the moonwalking.