5 Best history books like Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds

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Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews

By: Simon Reynolds

3.94

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"Totally Wired" features 32 interviews with the era's most innovative musicians and colourful perso…

If you liked the history plot in Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany

By: David Stubbs

4.03

Format: 495 pages, Paperback

The definitive guide to Kosmische music, from one of Britain's most acclaimed writers. West Germ… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Lunar Park

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zerocatapulted him … read more

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3. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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4. Gang of Four's Entertainment!

By: Kevin J.H. Dettmar

4.01

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest… read more

Similar categories in Kevin J.H. Dettmar's Gang of Four's Entertainment! book and Simon Reynolds's Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews

  • music
  • punk
  • nonfiction
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5. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1)

By: David Peace

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

On August 15, 1946--the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender--the partially decomposed, rape… read more

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7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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8. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

9. The Velvet Underground & Nico

By: None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And re… read more

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10. Low

By: Hugo Wilcken

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in … read more

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11. Hot Water Music

By: Charles Bukowski

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his s… read more

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12. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

Similar categories in Tom O'Neill's Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties book and Simon Reynolds's Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews

  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Vesper Flights

By: Helen Macdonald

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

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14. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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15. I baffi

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.73

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more

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16. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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17. 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

Similar categories in Will Hermes's Lou Reed: The King of New York book and Simon Reynolds's Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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19. Blue Lines

By: Ian Bourland

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack,… read more

Similar categories in Ian Bourland's Blue Lines book and Simon Reynolds's Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews

  • music
  • nonfiction
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20. Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure

By: Simon Price

4.10

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A  complete  and truly unique biography of Robert Smith and company, The Cure, chronicling their 40… read more

Similar categories in Simon Price's Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure book and Simon Reynolds's Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds

21. Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews

By: Simon Reynolds

3.94

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"Totally Wired" features 32 interviews with the era's most innovative musicians and colourful perso… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • punk

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3.72

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