T Bone Burnett: A Life in Pursuit
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T Bone Burnett is a unique, astonishingly prolific music producer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and...
Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
Brad "Scarface" Jordan and Benjamin Meadows Ingram
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One of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2015 From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller...
Fast Eddie: In 60 seconds he grabbed GBP1.2M. This is the true story of the cheekiest heist ever.
Mark Bulstrode and Grant Sherlock
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Eddie Maher used to spend every day guarding big bags of someone else's cash. He'd always dreamed...
Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life of Writing
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has...
A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.
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Immigration and the growing Latino population of the United States have become such contentious...
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
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An enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that...
food history
Nothing Fancy: Recipes and Recollections of Soul-Satisfying Food
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Diana Kennedy is the world's preeminent authority on authentic Mexican cooking and one of its...
Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
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When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high...
Theorizing Art Cinemas: Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond
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The term "art cinema" has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d'art...
Madonnaland: And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom
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When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting...