Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
By: Richard Koloda
4.13
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as …
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1. Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper
By: Art Pepper , Laurie Pepper
4.32
Format: 675 pages, Paperback
Not for the faint-hearted, Art Pepper's autobiography is painfully honest as the great saxophonist … read more
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2. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
3. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
4. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
5. Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
By: None
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
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6. As serious as your life: John Coltrane and beyond
By: None , Val Wilmer
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reissue of a jazz classic with photos by the author who is a well known photographer. read more
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7. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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8. I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
By: Richard Hell
4.27
Format: 224 pages, ebook
The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richa… read more
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9. Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
By: Nick Tosches
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Countryreveals a wild shadowland of histor… read more
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10. The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more
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11. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
By: James Atlas , None
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930's and 1940's, probing … read more
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12. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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- biography
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
13. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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14. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
15. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance
By: John Waters
3.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more
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16. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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17. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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18. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
By: Mark Lanegan
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more
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19. The Devil Takes You Home
By: Gabino Iglesias
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more
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20. Room to Dream
By: David Lynch
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking fi… read more
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"Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not."-David Lynch, Room to Dream
"I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a g…"-David Lynch, Room to Dream
21. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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22. Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
By: Aidan Levy
4.48
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** **Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Awar… read more
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23. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
By: Dan Charnas
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more
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"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
24. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
By: Erik Davis
4.22
Format: 545 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Te… read more
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- nonfiction
"Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo cham…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"By refusing randomness and unpredictability, conspiracy theories and paranoid reality tunnels reify the hubris of systematic rationality as such. “Maybe all systems—that is, any theoretical, verbal, …"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"The technological audacity of the Apollo program, with it's largely symbolic payload, was also sinking into the trivialisation that Guy Debord had identified the decade before as the underside of med…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
25. Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
By: Bob Kaufman
4.63
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
"The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a vol… read more
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26. The Joker, Volume Two
By: James Tynion IV
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Joker is on the run and James Gordon is tracking right behind him! Following the events of T… read more
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27. Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
By: W. Scott Poole
3.80
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Get Out, Dark Carnivals tells the panoramic story of the fil… read more
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28. The Joker, Volume One
By: James Tynion IV
3.93
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Batman: The Joker War was only the beginning! Arkham Asylum has been attacked and all eyes are o… read more
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29. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
By: John F. Szwed
4.29
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides … read more
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30. Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
By: Richard Koloda
4.13
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as … read more
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31. Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music
By: Henry Threadgill
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful medit… read more
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