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The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more...
Ice Cream Man
25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ice Cream Man: 25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Gus Rancatore and Helen Epstein (10,200 words)
A highly entertaining, idiosyncratic mini-memoir, with recipes, about 25 years of running a gourmet ice cream shop down the street from Harvard and MIT. Gus Rancatore shares...
Beat Punks
New York’s Underground Culture from the Beat Generation to the Punk Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The “poet laureate of the New York underground scene” chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression
Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, by the 1970s and ’80s, New York City’s creative scene had given way to a punk rock–era...
by Catherine O'Sullivan Shorr
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Catherine O’Sullivan Shorr sheds light on the infamous Silver Factory’s final years in the conclusion of this exhilarating, uncensored oral history
The late 1960s brought seismic shifts to Andy Warhol and life at the Silver Factory. The hub of his avant-garde scene shifted from the Factory...
Welcome to the Silver Factory
The Birth of the Pop Art Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The 1st installment in a 3-part oral history, Welcome to the Silver Factory introduces the members of Andy Warhol’s inner circle and their dazzling world of art, parties, drugs, and drama
In the 1st volume of this fascinating oral history based on her documentary Andy Warhol’s Factory...
Howard Chaykin
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture. His...
by Dan Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The singer Paul McCartney celebrated the age of 70, without thinking too much about his legendary past, just a few months after a new marriage and a new album release. Retirement from music is not a part of the famous British singer’s plans. After his impeccable performance in the giant pop-rock...
Pulp Macabre
The Art of Lee Brown Coye's Final and Darkest Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
"There was never an artist who came close to capturing horror and dread like Lee Brown Coye. He was master of the weird and grotesque illustration. Coye's sketches had the shape of nightmares."—Robert Weinberg, The Weird Tales Story
"It was always my belief that a good drawing...
Lucky Dogs
From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
When walking the French Quarter and watching a Lucky Dog salesman set up that colorful cart and call out to entice customers, don't you wonder how such a business works? As a knowing review in Rolling Stone stated, "People have always loved the cart and harbored a mysterious need to ride it....
Andy Warhol's Factory People
Welcome to the Silver Factory, Speeding into the Future, and Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Based on the television documentary: A three-part oral history of the Pop Art sensation’s inner circle and their dazzling world of art, drugs, and drama.
Featuring a new introduction by the author, special to this collection, this three-part companion volume to Emmy Award–winning Catherine...
All The Songs
The Story Behind Every Beatles Release
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Every album and every song ever released by the Beatles - from "Please Please Me" (U.S. 1963) to "The Long and Winding Road" (U.S. 1970) - is dissected, discussed, and analyzed by two music historians in this lively, fully illustrated work.
All the Songs delves deep into...
Boys in the Trees
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Carly Simon's New York Times bestselling memoir, Boys in the Trees, reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs...
Not Dead Yet
The Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Phil Collins pulls no punches—about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that’s inspired his music.
In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles’ legendary film A Hard Day’s...
Mo' Meta Blues
The World According to Questlove
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of...