Jack Black was a burglar, rambler, jailbird and writer whose lone published memoir, You Can’t Win (1926), was an important early influence on William S. Burroug...
From her earliest days as a child piano prodigy and lounge player in Washington D.C. clubs, Tori Amos has met resistance but never backed down from it. Battling...
Thomas Pynchon, the great American novelist, may be best known for being invisible. (Although he did do a voiceover on an episode of The Simpsons). Who is he? W...
A summer without baseball is cruel and unusual, and probably unconstitutional too. More to the point, it is unthinkable. Therefore, PKM’s Alan Bisbort and Benit...
A shout out to our favorite city— New York—- and our favorite book reviewer, the poet and novelist Michael Friedman. We love and cherish both of you! ️️ PleaseK...
We can’t think of anyone more deserving of a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ than cartoonist Lynda Barry, who was awarded one late last year. Her distinctive blend of ...
The Cockettes were a “hippie theater group” formed in 1969 and based in and around Haight-Ashbury. The group was comprised of artists, performers, singers, danc...
Bob Pomeroy met Nick Tosches on a Manhattan sidewalk bench. Prior to that, Pomeroy had collected, read and reread the writer’s inimitable works, like Hellfire, ...
Mick Houghton came of age as a pop music ‘obsessive’ in the 1960s. By the 1970s, he was a pop music industry insider. His previous books—biographies of Sandy De...
George Orwell died 70 years ago. It would be hard to find another writer of his generation who had as profound an influence on, and prophetic accuracy about, th...
We love rock & roll, but learning how it’s produced, marketed and compromised for mass consumption is a bit like learning how sausage is made or cloth diape...
Financial journalist Lindsay Goldwert saw parallels between the work of dominatrixes and how all the rest of us live our lives. So, she went straight into the c...
As co-editor (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) of the all-female Twisted Sisters Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, Diane Noomin is one of the pioneering women cartoonist...
On Tuesday, Thomas Dunne Books, a St. Martin’s imprint, releases 1973: Rock at the Crossroads, a deep 347-page dive into that year’s music biz and music scene b...
