Akashic Books, 300 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 It’s scary how transformative drugs can be. Don’t believe me? Sit down and read at least one story [...]
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THE SPEED CHRONICLES ed. by Joseph Mattsonreviewed by Chris Aitkens
SELECTED UNPUBLISHED BLOG POSTS OF A MEXICAN PANDA EXPRESS EMPLOYEE by Megan Boylereviewed by Ian Jones
Muumuu House, 96 pages, paperback, $12.00 Those akin to internet poetry and Muumuu House have already bought Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda [...]
MUSHROOMS, MYTH & MITHRAS by Carl Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, and José Alfredo González Celdránreviewed by Ian Jones
City Lights Books, 300 pages, paperback, $16.77 Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe is a heavy book for heavy thinkers. The [...]
BOUNDARIES by Elizabeth Nunezreviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Akashic Books, 275 pages, hardcover, $15.00 Set against the fast-paced backdrop of the publishing world, Boundaries is the story of a Caribbean immigrant struggling to reconcile [...]
TWO TIMES INTRO: ON THE ROAD WITH PATTI SMITH by Michael Stipereviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Akashic Books, 128 pages, hardcover $23.95 What happens when REM front man Michael Stipe and beloved alt-rock chick Patti Smith collide? You get a photo [...]
LOS ANGELES STORIES by Ry Cooderreviewed by Matt Edmund
City Lights, 232 pages, paperback, $15.95 I remember hearing Ry Cooder’s 2005 album Chavez Ravine after my old man burned me a copy of it [...]
THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM by Nathan Larsonreviewed by Paul J. Comeau
Akashic Books, 252 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Over the years, Akashic Books has built a reputation as a powerhouse independent publisher of gritty noir fiction. Their [...]
FORGOTTEN BOROUGH: WRITERS COME TO TERMS WITH QUEENS ed. by Nicole Steinbergreviewed by Paul Comeau
SUNY Press, 216 pages, hardcover, $21.95 Hundreds of books every year feature New York as either their subject or their setting, but it is usually [...]
ROCK AND ROLL ALWAYS FORGETS by Chuck Eddyreviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Duke University Press, 368 pages, trade paperback, $24.95 Chuck Eddy is opinionated. At times he comes across as stubborn and uncompromising, but he is not [...]
BEAT ATLAS by Bill Morganreviewed by Jackson Ellis
City Lights, 269 pages, paperback, $15.95 In the vein of his prior two Beat Generation guidebooks — The Beat Generation in New York and The Beat [...]
TOBACCO-STAINED MOUNTAIN GOAT by Andrez Bergenreviewed by Evan Pearson
Another Sky Press, 236 pages, paperback, priced on a donation-based sliding pay scale “And then the girl from the Activities was standing before me. You [...]
YOU MUST GO AND WIN by Alina Simonereviewed by Michael Kennedy
Faber & Faber, 256 pages, trade paperback, $14.00 There are a lot of folks out there writing novels these days. Obviously, some will be better [...]
GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP by Adam Mansbach, illustrated by Ricardo Cortésreviewed by Evan Pearson
Akashic Books, 32 pages, hardcover, $14.95 “The cubs and the lions are snoring, wrapped in a big snuggly heap, how come you can do all [...]
FIGHTING IN THE SHADE by Sterling Watsonreviewed by Michael Kennedy
Akashic Books, 330 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Hazing is messed up: fact. And what’s really weird about it is that even though I’ve known football [...]
GO FISH: HOW TO WIN CONTEMPT AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Mr. Fishreviewed by Simon A. Thalmann
Akashic Books, 224 pages, trade paperback, $18.95 You might expect that the debut collection of cartoons from a left-leaning political satirist would excoriate the Tea Party [...]
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