Conversations
By: Steve Reich
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A surprising, enlightening series of conversations that shed new light on the music and career of “…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I'm gonna die and think, 'Ugh, I was just getting started."-Steve Reich, Conversations
"I'm gonna die and think, 'Ugh, I was just getting started."-Steve Reich, Conversations
"I'm gonna die and think, 'Ugh, I was just getting started."-Steve Reich, Conversations
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
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"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
By: Carrie Brownstein
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"I've always felt unclaimed."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
3. The Unconsoled
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 535 pages, Paperback
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he c… read more
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- music
"Leave us, you were always on the outside of our love."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
"One should not, in any case, attempt to make a virtue out of one's limitations."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
"It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
"It had occurred to me to follow her through into the next room, visitors or no visitors, and bring her back for a talk. But in the end I had decided in favour of waiting where I was for her return. S…"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
4. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
By: Julian Jaynes
4.26
Format: 491 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human… read more
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- nonfiction
"No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad . Good and evil do not exist."-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a s…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason w…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"We sometimes think, and even like to think, that the two greatest exertions that have influenced mankind, religion and science, have always been historical enemies, intriguing us in opposite directio…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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- music
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6. In One Person
By: John Irving
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanit… read more
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7. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more
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8. Earth Abides
By: George R. Stewart
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more
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9. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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10. A Natural History of the Senses
By: Diane Ackerman
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Trade Paperback
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations wi… read more
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11. 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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- art
- nonfiction
- 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
12. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
13. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man
By: Jean-Christophe Deveney
3.67
Format: 153 pages, ebook
Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, es… read more
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14. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
15. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
16. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- biography
17. Goth: A History
By: Lol Tolhurst
3.68
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Following his memoir Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
18. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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19. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more
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20. Birds of Maine
By: Michael DeForge
4.25
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Take flight to this post-apocalyptic utopia filled with birds. Birds roam freely around the Moon c… read more
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21. The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
By: Benjamin Moser
4.20
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser be… read more
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22. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
23. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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- nonfiction
"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
24. 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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- biography
"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
25. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
By: Geezer Butler
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
26. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
By: Katie Holten
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . … read more
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27. This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
By: Jon Savage
4.32
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-de… read more
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28. Nick Drake: The Life
By: Richard Morton Jack
4.54
Format: 546 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is the book we've been waiting for . . . It is a biography to be treasured' Joe Boyd 'The … read more
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29. Murder on Sex Island: A Luella van Horn Mystery
By: Jo Firestone
3.89
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers ask the mysterious … read more
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30. How to Write a Song that Matters
By: Dar Williams
4.21
Format: None pages, Audiobook
An effective and inspiring guide to songwriting by prolific, iconic singer-songwriter Dar Williams.… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Conversations
By: Steve Reich
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A surprising, enlightening series of conversations that shed new light on the music and career of “… read more
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"I'm gonna die and think, 'Ugh, I was just getting started."-Steve Reich, Conversations
