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Sea Monsters 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Smart phones and GPS give us many possible routes to navigate our daily commute, warn us of traffic and delays, and tell us where to find a cup of coffee. But what if there were sea serpents and giant...
The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, Philip Lamantia 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of ...
Smoke Signals, Martin A. Lee 13 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
This is the great American pot story, a dramatic social exploration of a plant that sits at the nexus of political, legal, medical, and scientific discourse. From its ancient origins, to its cutting-e...
Here Come the Warm Jets, Alli Warren 12 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Just in! The second coming of gurlesque, "Here Come the Warm Jets" is the highly anticipated, swaggering debut of Alli Warren.
Cool Gray City of Love, Gary Kamiya 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francis...
Babayaga, Toby Barlow 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
By the author of Sharp Teeth, a novel of love, spies, and witches in 1950s Paris-and a cop turned into a flea. Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA....
Pink Sari Revolution, Amana Fontanella-Khan 5 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women. In Uttar Pradesh-known as the "badlands" of India-a woman's life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for h...
The Devil's Workshop, Jachym Topol 1 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
'The devil had his workshop in Belarus. That's where the deepest graves are. But no one knows about it.' A young man grows up in a town with a sinister history. The concentration camp may have been li...
Where the Heart Beats, Kay Larson 30 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
In this stunning biography of John Cage, Larson investigates how Buddhist concepts shaped Cage's approach to art, and the influence it had on other artists of his era (ie. Merce Cunningham, Robert Rau...
My Lunches with Orson, Peter Biskind 16 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before W...
