Tag Archives: Popular Culture
Wonderland
by Michael Bamberger“Bamberger spends a year learning the individual stories that make up a senior class, weaving them together for a composite portrait that, we hope, will give us a clear vision of a changing America. . . . For most of the students Bamberger introduces to us, it seems likely that…
Within the Context of No Context
by George W.S Trow“The writing in this book is so extraordinary. It is as if George Trow had dived down in some deep sea and had taken…
The Voyeur’s Motel
by Gay TaleseFrom Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.
Tobacco
by Iain Gately“Ambitious . . . informative and perceptive . . . Gately has done a great deal of research . . . and has assembled…
Ten Unknowns
by Jon Robin Baitz“Jon Robin Baitz has a singular talent as a playwright for combining smart and biting social criticism with humor and tenderness.” –Sean Mitchell, The…
There’s a Riot Going On
by Peter Doggett“Fascinating . . . There’s a Riot Going On [is] a step toward drawing a distinction between the fanatic and the visionary, the image…
Teenage Hipster in the Modern World
by Mark Jacobson“In his vibrant, pulsing journalism, Mark Jacobson consistently displays the essential quality of a great musician: the sense of surprise. He looks, he listens,…
Storming Heaven
by Jay Stevens“Fascinating . . . The most compelling account yet of how these hallucinogenic, or psychedelic, drugs became an explosive force in postwar American history.”…
Snowblind
by Robert Sabbag“A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether. . . . Sabbag is a whip-song writer.” —Hunter S. Thompson…
The Record Players
by Bill BrewsterFrom the authors of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life and How to DJ Right comes the fascinating story of dance music, straight from the mouths of the legendary DJs themselves….
