Knopf, April 2020. Oversized Hardcover. The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing--and why: Can birds smell?; Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?; Do..... More
William Collins, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2010. Trade Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange is based on the first British edition and includes Burgess's original final chapter. It is accompanied by Mark Rawlinson's preface, explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A glossary of the Russian-origin terms that inspired..... More
Steidl/National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 2008. Hardcover. First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of 20th-century photographyFirst published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, March 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is "an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence..... More
File under Dystopian Science Fiction. You would be both wrong and right. Klara and the Sun is really a treatise on loneliness, loss and the duplicity of humans. The titular Klara is an AF (artificial friend). She is a truly original voice with unique perspectives on everything she sees and “feels”. Ishiguro never wavers in his erudite depiction of Klara. Her speech and thought patterns are totally consistent throughout. You believe in her, the irony of the story being that amongst this cast of characters she is the least artificial of them all. Future classic.
Penguin Classics, October 2016. Trade Paperback. Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road..... More
The ultimate beat tome and the book largely responsible for me landing on these shores. An entirely different American dream. Jack and Neal were hipsters before it was a dirty word. Essential.
Random House, August 2021. Hardcover. The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie "Ferocious and wise, funny and tragic, raging and forgiving, and I loved every page."--Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City In the..... More
He never recorded it, but an alternate title for this could be, "Everything Happens To Me". Lurie was in the center of the maelstrom of 80s New York when it was still the Wild West. He knew everyone, and pissed off most of them. Jazz Musician, Film Actor, TV Auteur, Painter ... he did them all with passion and aplomb while fiercely protecting his artistic integrity from those that would stand in his way. My favorite memoir in many years. Devoured it.
British Film Institute, May 2020. Paper Back. Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the director's cut, they were so shocked by the film's sexual explicitness..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2021. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart."--Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire FINALIST..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, December 2009. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - Colum McCann's beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit's daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand..... More
MCD, April 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant "Jane Smith" receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her..... More
Doubleday Books, September 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to..... More
