John Lustig: 7 books

It’s all in the job description–or is it? It’s never just another day at the office in John Lustig’s Last Kiss comics series, a vintage-with-a-twist collection of 1950s and 60s art reimagined with Lustig’s cheeky modern dialogue. Last Kiss takes doctors, nurses, lawyers, stay-at-home moms,...

The holidays are always fun—if you discount nosy relatives, stressful family gatherings, and the inevitable question “Were you naughty or nice this year?” Well, most people would say they were nice, but John Lustig’s Last Kiss shines a light on the absurdity of such a question. Using art from...

What do you get when you mix 1950s style with a twentieth-century sensibility? No, not Mad Men. Even better: John Lustig's Last Kiss. Lustig has rewritten the classic 50s- and 60s-era comic strip First Kiss into a hilariously silly commentary on life, love, and the pursuit of great sex. In this e-book...

More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic exposé on the dangers of sugar—reissued here with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the bestselling author of Fat Chance. Scientist John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm...

A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse. Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...

Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to...