Plume imprint: 843 books
Slimed!
An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
**The special 5th Anniversary Edition of SLIMED!
An Entertainment Weekly “Best Tell-All” Book
One of Parade Magazine's “Best Books About Movies/TV”
Included in Publishers Weekly's “Top Ten Social Science Books”
Before the recent reboots, reunions, and renaissance of classic...
Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gossip meets history—a compulsively readable collection of Hollywood's most notorious clashes and controversies in the spirit of Hollywood Babylon
Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown and...
Sound Man
A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles , Eric Clapton, The Faces . . .
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was sixteen years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band’s debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business: Abbey Road with the...
by Damien Echols
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years on Death Row.
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis...
Flyover Lives
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
“[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world—and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she...
Slow Love
How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"In burnished, exquisite prose, Browning describes her feelings of being set adrift until she gradually transforms her helter-skelter days into a deliberate, contemplative way of life." -The Boston Globe
In late 2007, Dominique Browning, the editor-in-chief of Conde Nast's House &...
An Atheist in the FOXhole
A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
“Hilariously details the inner workings of the cable news network.” —The Daily Beast
After college, Joe Muto—a self-professed bleeding-heart, godless liberal—took an entry-level position at Fox News. Joe kept quiet about his political views and initially enjoyed the newsroom camaraderie....
Old Records Never Die
One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy
***High Fidelity ***meets Killing Yourself to Live when one man searches for his lost record collection.
As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel...
In the Shadow of the Buddha
One Man's Journey of Discovery in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Spiritual biography meets edge-of-your-seat undercover reporting: how an American Buddhist smuggled out hard evidence of abuse and torture in Tibet.
For nearly a decade, Matteo Pistono smuggled out of Tibet evidence of atrocities by the Chinese government, showing it to the U.S. government,...
Boss
Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1988
"The best book ever written about an American city, by the best journalist of his time.”— Jimmy Breslin
New edition of the classic story of the late Richard J. Daley, politician and self-promoter extraordinaire, from his inauspicious youth on Chicago’s South Side through his rapid...
The Lost Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
“I always hoped [Mary Williams] would tell her incredible story. She's a writer of uncommon clarity and humor, and the arrival of her memoir is cause for celebration." —Dave Eggers, author of What is the What
As she grew up in 1970s Oakland, California, role models for Mary Williams were...
The Mascot
Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The "spellbinding" (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish boy who became the darling of the Nazis
When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he was picked up by a group of Latvian...
I Said Yes to Everything
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue “It Girl.” At...
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
**“In Good Morning, Mr. Mandela, Zelda la Grange recounts her remarkable life at the right hand of the man we both knew and loved. It's a tribute to both of them—to Madiba's eye for talent and his capacity for trust and to Zelda's courage to take on a great challenge and her capacity for growth....