‘LIKE PUNK NEVER HAPPENED’: THE LEGACY OF THE NEW ROMANTICS AND ‘80S U.K. POP
Sweet Dreams, a new oral history by British journalist Dylan Jones, charts the musical about-face in the UK...
Books
MALCOLM MCLAREN: JEWISH MANAGER AS PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER
A new doorstopper-sized (900+ pages) biography of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman got musician Gary Lucas thinking about...
HARLEM OF THE WEST: SAN FRANCISCO’S FILLMORE DISTRICT
Before the hippies swarmed in to reshape America’s counterculture—and before the city embarked on a disastrous urban renewal...
AND IN THE END: A LOOK AT THE LAST DAYS OF THE BEATLES
So much has been written and said about The Beatles that it’s rare when something fresh comes along....
THE GHASTLY ONE: JIMMY MCDONOUGH TALKS ABOUT ANDY MILLIGAN AND HIS TRANSGRESSIVE CINEMA
Jimmy McDonough is best-known for his exhaustive bios of Neil Young (Shakey), Tammy Wynette (Tragic Country Queen) and...
CHRIS FRANTZ: REMAINS IN LOVE
The subtitle to Remain in Love, the new memoir by Chris Frantz, is “Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club,...
JOHNNY THUNDERS IN COLD BLOOD
In 1987, Nina Antonia published the first book about John Anthony Genzale (aka Johnny Thunders) (1952-1991). It was...
THE INTREPID TRAVELLER: KEN BABBS ON THE MERRY PRANKSTERS, THE BEATS, THE DEAD, WOODSTOCK, AND MUCH MORE
How did a basketball-playing Marine Corps lieutenant from Ohio become a driving force for the Merry Pranksters, an...
VISUALIZING MARC ALMOND: JAMIE MCLEOD’S CAMERA EYE
Art photographer Jamie McLeod was a collaborator with and muse for the megastar Marc Almond (Soft Cell, Marc...
YOU CAN’T WIN: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE REAL JACK BLACK
Jack Black was a burglar, rambler, jailbird and writer whose lone published memoir, You Can’t Win (1926), was...
TORI AMOS ON RESISTANCE: CREATIVE OPPOSITION
From her earliest days as a child piano prodigy and lounge player in Washington D.C. clubs, Tori Amos...
LETTER TO A FIRST-TIME THOMAS PYNCHON READER
Thomas Pynchon, the great American novelist, may be best known for being invisible. (Although he did do a...
BASEBALL BOOKS AND MOVIES TO HELP MAKE IT THROUGH THIS SEASON
A summer without baseball is cruel and unusual, and probably unconstitutional too. More to the point, it is...
TEN GREAT NEW YORK CITY NOVELS
A shout out to our favorite city— New York—- and our favorite book reviewer, the poet and novelist...