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posted Thursday, July 30, 2026
Famesick is a rowdy, frank, and moving reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, from the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls, and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl. Lena Dunham asks whether pursuing her creative ambitions has been worth the pain. For the last decade, as she’s spent countless […]
posted Thursday, July 30, 2026
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock commemorates the 50th anniversary of the iconic NYC new-wave/art-rock band. Acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York City, and showing how a group of art students […]
posted Monday, July 20, 2026
Mighty Real is the definitive history of LGBTQ music, from Stonewall to RuPaul, and its impact on culture and American life From the underground dancefloors of the Seventies to the global charts of the Nineties, LGBTQ artists and audiences shaped music’s sound, style, and spirit. In Mighty Real, veteran journalist Barry Walters chronicles its LGBTQ history […]
posted Friday, July 17, 2026
No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene is an intimate insider’s account of New York’s most radical cultural revolution and the women who obliterated every barrier in their path. In 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets Nan Goldin and joins her in New York’s bombed-out […]
posted Sunday, July 12, 2026
The Land and Its People is a collection of short essays from David Sedaris, reflecting on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He covers ground with his friend Dawn and challenges her to […]
posted Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The News From Dublin is a collection of short stories transports readers across continents and eras, many never-before-published, that detail the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. In “The Journey to Galway,” a mother who has learned of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in WWII, travels to Galway to inform his wife […]
posted Saturday, June 27, 2026
All We Hide tells the story of a trans detective who takes on the cold-case murder of a local trans woman. Her investigation unravels the threads of a county-wide conspiracy, as well as a personal mystery that’s haunted her since childhood. When Lieutenant Lauren Kelly is exiled to the Homicide Cold Case Unit at the DA’s office, […]
posted Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Don Pyle’s tantalizing memoir, Rough Description, recalls first bands, the absurdity and incredible rewards of touring, and dubious-dealing stories of the groups he’s been in, most prominently as drummer and co-founder of beloved group Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. It recounts friend and work relationships with musician Dallas Good, venerable producer/engineer Steve Albini, iconic comedy […]
posted Tuesday, June 16, 2026
The Longest Death is about two lovers who plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream. Post-war Riverton has little to offer Richard, a mild-mannered loner working a dead-end job at Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company. When he meets Marlon, a smooth-talking confidence […]
posted Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Villa Coco is a tale of a young man who takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills. An aspiring archivist determined to begin a “serious” life after an undistinguished undergraduate career takes up residence in the Italian countryside. Here, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to […]
