Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
From Boys to Men
Gay Men Write About Growing Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
More than an anthology of coming out stories, From Boys to Men is a stunning collection of essays about what it is like to be gay and young, to be different and be aware of that difference from the earliest of ages. In these memoirs, coming out is less important than coming of age and coming to the...
by Pierre Cabanne
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
With an introduction by Robert Motherwell and an appreciation by Jasper Johns
"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one...
When The Shooting Stops ... The Cutting Begins
A Film Editor's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking-film editing-is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen...
Suck and Blow
And Other Stories I'm Not Supposed to Tell
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In Suck and Blow, John Popper recounts his early days of musical discovery, shares a forthright assessment of his longstanding battle with obesity, and discusses a range of topics, including life as a gun enthusiast, the vibrant New York music scene of the late '80s and early '90s, his wide- reaching...
Third Coast
Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-hop Became a Southern Thing
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
Typically, more than half the top rap songs in the country are the work of Southern artists. In a world still stuck in the East/West coast paradigm of the '90s, Southern hip hop has dominated the genre-and defined the culture-for years. And the South's leading lights, most notably OutKast, Timbaland,...
NOFX
The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own words
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most...
Under the Big Black Sun
A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary West Coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting...
Poseur
A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Marc Spitz assumed that if he lived like his literary and rock ’n’ roll heroes, he would become a great artist, too. He conveniently overlooked the fact that many of them died young, broke, and miserable. In his candid, wistful, touching, and hilarious memoir, Poseur, the music journalist, playwright,...
Don't Stop Believin'
How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Armed with a keen eye and a terrible singing voice, writer Brian Raftery sets out across the globe, tracing karaoke's evolution from cult fad to multi-million dollar phenomenon. In Japan, he meets Daisuke Inoue, the godfather of karaoke; in Thailand, he follows a group of Americans hoping to win the...
The Time of My Life
A Righteous Brother's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
From an early age, Bill Medley had a passion for music. School glee club and amateur singing contests soon gave way to the albums of Ray Charles and Little Richard. That raw R&B influence would profoundly shape Medley's musical future.
As the pioneering blue-eyed soul” group the Righteous...
Their Backs Against the Sea
The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered...
Gregory Peck
A Charmed Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies-among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, and Ava Gardner-would...
A Hundred or More Hidden Things
The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
He was the acclaimed director of such cinematic classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and Gigi, and equally well known for his tumultuous marriage to the legendary Judy Garland. But to say that Vincente Minnelli's conflicted personal life informed his films would be an understatement....
Trouble Boys
The True Story of the Replacements
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Based on a decade of research and reporting--as well as access to the Replacements' key principals, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson--author Bob Mehr has fashioned something far more compelling than a conventional band bio. Trouble Boys is a deeply intimate portrait,...