NEEDLES AND PLASTIC: FLYING NUN RECORDS, 1981–1988
By: Matthew Goody
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attemp…
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1. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
2. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
By: Michael Azerrad
4.22
Format: 522 pages, Paperback
This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
"Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spir…"-Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
3. Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
By: Eddie Muller
4.26
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Dark City, urban landscape of the imagination. A place where the men and women who creat… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after" films. But some victors didn't feel too good about their spoils. They'd see…"-Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
4. Something Like an Autobiography
By: Akira Kurosawa , Audie Bock
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"A first rate book and a joy to read...It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director'… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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6. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- nonfiction
7. 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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- history
- nonfiction
"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
8. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
9. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
10. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
12. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- nonfiction
13. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
14. 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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- music
- history
- nonfiction
15. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
16. 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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- history
- nonfiction
17. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
By: Melissa Maerz
4.40
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
“Melissa Maerz’s brilliant oral history is the definitive account of a cult-classic movie that took… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Richard Linklater: First, we became a midnight film. We would play for an entire year at certain theaters. They would turn it into a mini-concert where you go in the theater and you could smell the p…"-Melissa Maerz, Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
18. NEEDLES AND PLASTIC: FLYING NUN RECORDS, 1981–1988
By: Matthew Goody
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attemp… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
20. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
21. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
22. Nina Simone's Gum
By: Warren Ellis
4.26
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
23. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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24. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- nonfiction
25. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
By: Miki Berenyi
4.46
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
26. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion
By: Steve Turner
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard ska… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
27. The Wheel of Doll
By: Jonathan Ames
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this… read more
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28. You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series)
By: Bruce Adams
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
29. Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
By: Markiyan Kamysh
3.29
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Trainspotting meets A Field Guide to Getting Lost in this rare portrait of the dystopian reality th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
By: Shiguéhiko Hasumi
4.54
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi's Directed by Yasujiro Ozu has become one of the most in… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Pull Down The Shades - GARAGE Fanzine 1984-86
By: Richard Langston
4.67
Format: 282 pages, Perfect Paperback
2nd edition of 500. The incredible sound of New Zealand from Flying Nun Records and Xpressway in th… read more
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