The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film by William Preston Robertson

...Read about bowling noir and orange night and method Munsingwear. Read about micturating on rugs, howling fat men, blustery titans, peculiar haircuts and lost hats. Read, if you dare, about the mutating aspects of Exline, Milius and Doud. But most all, read about the brightly funny, widely acclaimed Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen--and the surprisingly serious and deliberate way they bring their wacky slant on reality to the silver screen.
Read what many consider the most definitive book on the Coen Brothers to date....

The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film from W.W.Norton is the first and best behind-the-scenes look at how the filmmaking Coen Brothers create their cinematic masterpieces of quirk. The brainchild of Coen co-editor (and Ethan's wife!) Tricia Cooke, and featuring prolix, chuckleheaded text by longtime Coen friend (and Amazing Voice) William Preston Robertson, with illustrations by John Todd Anderson and Rafael Sanudo, The Big Lebowski:
The Making of a Coen Brothers Film offers an insightful and entertaining look at the Coen Filmmaking Process, from noggin-bobbing ideation to flickering celluloid. Providing semi-insightful gum-flapping sessions with both Coens individually, as well as illuminating and informative jawings with essential members of their crew, this one-of-a-kind book takes you step-by-step through the Coens' cinematic methodology from screenwriting to storyboarding to
cinematography to production design to costuming.

More than just the usual shamelessly fawning, numbnutted "making-of" book, The Big Lebowski:
The Making of a Coen Brothers Film is actually a "how-to" book brimming with photos and original illustrations (including pitifully rendered preproduction thumbnails by Ethan himself)! By the time you've finish reading this slim but magnificent volume, you'll have everything you need to know in order to make your very own Coen brothers film!

You heard us right! Who needs those two skinny Minnesotan oddballs? After you've read this paginated treasure trove of Coenana, you'll be able to create your very own offbeat, inaccessible, yet exquisitely crafted cinema
that will leave audiences everywhere stupefied with delight! ...Right, boys?

Still not convinced? Read excerpts from the book! Click below to check out author William Preston Robertson's
award-winning essay on the history of bowling scenes in film noir as excerpted from
The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film.

...Or read Amazon.com's reproductions of actual pages from
The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film,
Chapter 1--The Idea: The Homework in a Baggie

But say!--since you're already there, why not just buy the damn thing!

In the United Kingdom, The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film is published by Faber & Faber, where it has the infinitely more exciting title of The Making of Joel and Ethan Coens' The Big Lebowski.
If you live in the UK, or if you simply want an edition with a more scholarly looking looking cover, click below:

While we're of a continental mind, here's a heady little tome called
Das Filmische Universum von Joel und Ethan Coen
from those wacky German film scribes Annette Kilzer and Stefan Rogall:

You've seen the movie! Now wear the undies! This spring, the Hollywood
trend-conscious will be coddling their privates in Munsingwear! Munsingwear--for fashion that screams
BIG LEBOWSKI! What do Munsingwear brand undergarments have to do with the Coen Brothers?
Read the The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film and find out!

What's that? Did somebody say... Lebowski Theme Party? You know--something with unlimited bowling?
Free shoe rental? Trivia games? Character dress-up contests? Prizes and drinking and what have you?
Go check out the Annual Big Lebowski What-Have-You Fest in Louisville, Kentucky--Home of the Hot Brown!

And, hey, kids!--don't forget to check out these other excellent Lebowski/Coen websites,
full of downloadable sounds and images, interviews and other useful info:

If you're looking for other types of Coenana, such as posters, screenplays (in book form), soundtrack albums, videos, DVDs or other...cough-cough... lesser works written about them, the last website above, "You Know, For Kids!" has a comprehensive store full of merchandising links to all things Coen for both US and UK fans. Those seeking to enrich their lives with online purchases related to the Coen Brothers' filmic oeuvre should go check it out. ...Right, boys?