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posted Wednesday, January 17, 2024
In On Community, author Casey Plett explores the need for community to live, but questions what does it look like, and why does it often feel like it’s slipping away? We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or […]
posted Tuesday, January 16, 2024
In She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism, music journalist Katherine Yeske Taylor interviews twenty significant women in rock, devoting an entire chapter to each one, taking an in-depth look at the incredible talent, determination, and humour they needed to succeed in their careers (and life). Feminism has always been a complex and controversial […]
posted Friday, January 12, 2024
In The Form of a Question is an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world, and of yourself. Its an inspirational and bold memoir from Amy Schneider, the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! In eighth grade, Amy was voted “Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!” by her classmates. Decades […]
posted Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The Beginning Was the End is the definitive account of Devo’s vibrant early history, from the authors of the first-ever book about the band. The Beginning Was the End features more than eighty never-before-seen images of the band members and their visual history as it tells the unlikely story of a collection of creative misfits who formed a musical kinship, drawing […]
posted Thursday, January 4, 2024
Live from the Underground A History of College Radio tells the story of how alternative indie bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio. It also explains the powerful influence that these stations and their DJs had on musical culture was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and […]
posted Sunday, December 17, 2023
High Adventure: Tales of Canadian Rock & Roll Survival chronicles the outrageous musical adventures of a boy from the tiny village of Chester Basin, Nova Scotia, who became a rabid pop music fan, musician and finally a recording and touring member of some of Canada’s foremost pop groups. From the early bands playing high schools, […]
posted Wednesday, December 13, 2023
The Sterns Are Listening tells the story of Benjamin and Dita Stern, two seasoned New Yorkers whose life in their Upper East Side building has settled into a state of staleness. Their two children no longer live at home, and their professional lives were never fully realized. Then Benjamin’s brash younger brother Spence, founder and […]
posted Tuesday, December 12, 2023
In Gorgeous Display, by Nigerian poet Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, is a volume dedicated to the memory of those lost to anti-queer violence worldwide. In this first full-length collection of his work, Okpara examines queer male identity, effeminacy, and exile, offering meditations on desire and sanctuary, freedom and estrangement. Forty-three poems pierce familial relationships, safety, fear, […]
posted Saturday, December 9, 2023
Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that delves into what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that fetish communities come with just as many problematic rules, expectations, and hierarchies as mainstream ones. Moving from wide-eyed optimism that the fetish community is […]
posted Monday, December 4, 2023
Lou Reed: The King of New York is the most complete biography of the music legend to date, whose stature continues to grow every year since his passing 10 years ago. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In his new book, […]
