The acclaimed writer and beloved writing teacher’s suicide ten years ago (Sept. 12) shocked his fans and students. The film The End of the Tour, released last y...
“God protects drunks, infants, and feisty girls, girls who are up for anything.” Cynthia Heimel, who died this year, riled the feminist movement in 1983 wi...
Ezra Furman, the perfect pop maker for these trans times, on his newly published 33 & 1/3 book about Lou Reed and the Transformer album
Ezra Furman is...
Mike Katz and Crispin Kott comb the boroughs for any and all hints of rock & roll's roots and put it all inside one handy-dandy guidebook; the Rock and...
Danny Fields talks about his years managing the Ramones, the stories behind the stunning photographs featured in his newly re-released book My Ramones, why pink...
Pages from artist Duncan Hannah's 20th Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies vividly capture a time when DIY artists and musicians roamed an affordable M...
Anaïs Nin's diaries told of an independent, bohemian woman on a sensual and artistic journey - carousing with expats in Paris in the 30s and Greenwich Village’s...
In honor of National Poetry Month, poet Michael Friedman highlights ten ‘under-the-radar’ poetry classics, which break all the rules of verse (and that is a goo...
The late Fall singer Mark E. Smith held nothing back in his autobiography, Renegade
My boyfriend rang me one afternoon in January, saying, “Did you hear the ne...
The celebrated painter Duncan Hannah talks about his experiences during the punk rock era in New York and the characters in his circle, including Jim Carroll, R...
Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins’ new book celebrates the career of his post-punk band, which influenced the likes of Björk, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and...
Maria Alyokhina's Riot Days bears witness to the hardships endured by those who dare oppose the ruling powers, and reminds us that music does have the power to ...
Legs McNeil talks to Billboard about the book he and Gillian McCain have been working on for 20 years - documenting the late ‘60s California music scene an...
Reissue of This Post-Punk Novelist’s Work Puts Her Back in the Countercultural Conversation Where She Belongs
By Mary Karmelek
If the writer Kathy Acker (19...
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