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by Terry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters, including Maya Angelou; Truman Capote; Colette; Bret Easton Ellis; Allen Ginsberg; Patti Smith; Karl Ove Knausgaard; and David Foster Wallace; in this unique compendium of profiles—packed with eighty black-and-white...
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, Glenn O’Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America—the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws...
The Other Serious
Essays for the New American Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, joyful existence in our era of screen living and hipster irony, by a Gen-X Princeton professor and contributor to The New York Times
The essays in...
Lost in Mongolia
Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Find yourself in the midst of a heated battle over a sitcom laugh track. Learn to get away with spectacular crimes. Get lost with the reindeer people in the mountains of Mongolia.
In Lost in Mongolia a collection of Tad Friend's most original, witty, and wide-ranging articles and essays from...
In Love with Art
Francoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Françoise Mouly, an editor and publisher of uncommon taste and creativity, and an artist in her own right, has spent nearly four decades transforming comics. With her husband, Art Spiegelman, Mouly founded the landmark magazine RAW, which showcased artists such as Chris Ware, Charles Burns and Sue...
by The Editors of BroBible.com
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
DAD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN A BRO’S LIFE.
He teaches you how to swing a baseball bat, grill a steak, and master a stick shift. Dad helps you laugh off a breakup, guides you on big decisions, and doesn’t tell your Mom when he catches you hooking up with a girl—yet still warns you...
by Bart Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue...
New Art City
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative,...
Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss
How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and...
The Cigarette Book
The History and Culture of Smoking
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
From A is for Aardvark—“We’re not allowed to tell you anything about Winston cigarettes, so here’s a stuffed aardvark”—to Z is for Zippo, the iconic American lighter, The Cigarette Book is the ultimate souvenir and celebration of the dying art of smoking. Encyclopedic in both layout and...
Kirby
King of Comics (Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular super heroes, including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“When it comes to infographics…the best work in this field grabs those eyes, keeps them glued, and the grip is sensual—and often immediate. A good graphic says ‘See what I see!’ and either you do or you don’t. The best ones…pull you right in, and won’t let you go.”
—From the...
by Justin Bua
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Sweeping in its scope, The Legends of Hip Hop is an intimate look at the visionaries, the movers and the shakers, and the pioneers who have helped shape the world of hip hop.
Groundbreaking artist Justin Bua profiles and paints fifty key figures, including everyone from Afrika Bambaataa and...
by Stephen Weiner, Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Graphic novels have exploded off bookstore shelves into movies, college courses, and the New York Times book review, and comics historian and children’s literature specialist Stephen Weiner explains the phenomenon in this groundbreaking book—the first history of graphic novels. From the agonizing...