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What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias And The News   Eric Alterman
Moshpit: The Violent World of Mosh Pit Culture Joe Ambrose
Our Band Could Be Your Life:
     Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
Michael Azerrad
Between the Bullets: The Spiritual Cinema of John Woo  Michael Bliss

American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Stephen Blush
Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe  Sonny Brewer, editor
John Cassavetes: Lifeworks                 Tom Charity
Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s     Christina Cogdell
American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace John C. Culver and John Hyde
The Quarrymen Hunter Davies
Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester
      Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
Jim DeRogatis
Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir     Andrew Dickos
The White Album   Joan Didion
French New Wave  Jean Douchet
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
Book: The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Econimics Riane Eisler

The Woman Who Walked to Paradise:              
    Stories for Coping in a Chaotic World

Robert Stevens Fish

One Market Under God  

Thomas Frank
My Father's Secret War: A Memoir Lucinda Franks
It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
It Happened in Manhattan Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
Brecht and Company John Fuegi
Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker  James Gavin
Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference   Wes D. Gehring
Calder at Home Pedro E. Guerrero
It’s Only a Movie! Films and Critics in American Culture   Raymond J. Haberski Jr.
The Classic Era Of American Pulp Magazines  Peter Haining
American Muslims: The New Generation   Asma Gull Hasan
Dispatches Michael Herr

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Christopher Hitchens

Lord of the Dolls: Voyage in Xochimilco

Eva Hunter      
Minor Characters                   Joyce Johnson
Abel Ferrara: The King of New York  Nick Johnstone
Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention   Charles M. Joseph
A Round-Heeled Woman     Jane Juska
Little-Known Museums In and Around London Rachel Kaplan
Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam   David Kaufman
Into the Tangle of Friendship   Beth Kephart
New Hollywood Cinema   Geoff King
American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions      Peter Lev
The Suppression of Salt of the Earth            James J. Lorence
Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir   Arthur Lyons
Lummox: The Evolution of a Man                Mike Magnuson

The Ghastly One:
   The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan

Jimmy McDonough
Tender Comrades Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle
Rebels with Applause Scott Miller
The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions    Rick Moody
Fat, Broke & Lonely No More!—Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places. Victoria Moran
Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvinate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit Victoria Moran
Giant: George Stevens, A Life on Film Marilyn Ann Moss
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth   Ronald Neame with Barbara Roisman Cooper
Bistro Sharon O'Connor

Movie Awards: The Ultimate, Unofficial Guide to the Oscars,
    Golden Globes, Critics, Guild and Indie Honors

Tom O'Neil
Ex-Friends Norman Podhoretz
Old Glory    Jonathan Raban
Suffer the Little Children:
The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools
Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan
The Rest is Noise, Listening to the Tewntieth Century
Alex Ross
Memories of a Cuban Kitchen  Mary Urrutia Randelmann and Joan Schwartz
Journey to Portugal                 Jose Saramago
The Cultural Cold War      Frances Stonor Saunders
U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security J. Peter Scoblic
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) David Sedaris
Women of the Third Reich   Anna Maria Sigmund
The Films of Steven Spielberg: Critical Essays   Charles L. P. Silet, Editor
In the Shadow of No Towers          Art Spiegelman
Britain & Ireland: Contemporary Art and Architecture Handbook   Sidra Stich

Rock 'Til You Drop

John Strausbaugh
Nonrequired Reading   Wislawa Szymborska
Leni Riefenstahl - Five Lives     A. Taschen,  editor
Trump: How to Get Rich   Donald J. Trump/Meredith McIver
Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini,
    and the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San                                               
Jan van Rij

Madonna: The Style Book

Debbi Voller
Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film      Annalee R. Ward
Making Museums Matter   Stephen E. Weil
Al-Qaeda: Anatomy of Terror     Paul L. Williams
Chaplin and Agee:
      The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay
John Wranovic
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood     Justin Wyatt
Andy Kaufman Revealed! Bob Zmuda
poetry
Dogs Dream of Running John Lehman
fiction
Novel with Cocaine M. Ageyev
The Year of Jubilo  Howard Bahr
The Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks
Ravelstein                         Saul Bellow
Lightning on the Sun        Robert Bingham
Without a Hero T. Coraghessan Boyle
My Father, Dancing Bliss Broyard
Running with Scissors   Augusten Burroughs
The Night Inspector Frederick Busch
Wonder Boys Michael Chabon
The Contortionist's Handbook     Craig Clevenger
House of Leaves   Mark Z. Danielewski
The War of the Rosens      Janice Eidus
Glamorama     Bret Easton Ellis
Side Effect    Sandra Feder
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Forever: A Novel Pete Hammill
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man           Joseph Heller
The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith
Until I Find You    John Irving
The Glass Cocoon             Christopher J. Jarmick and Serena F. Holder

Dreamcatcher             

Stephen King
Eyes Wide Shut/Dream Story Kubrick/Raphael/Schnitzler
The Company She Keeps   Mary McCarthy
Atonement Ian McEwan
The Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Stones of Summer   Dow Mossman
Something Might Happen   Julie Myerson
Half a Life V. S. Naipaul
Looking for the Summer           Robert W. Norris
Last Things Jenny Offill
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk

Carp Fishing on Valium

Graham Parker
The Club Dumas Arturo Perez-Reverte
Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men       Padgett Powell
Vivaldi's Virgins Barbara Quick
Fidelity Michael Redhill
The Year of Fog Michelle Richmond
Chasing Ghosts Paul Rieckhoff
The Dying Animal Philip Roth

I Married a Communist 

Philip Roth
The Rule of Two          D. S. Saunders
An Uncertain Currency

Clyde Lynwood Sawyer, Jr. and Frances Witlin

Secrets of Sant’Angelo Jeff Shapiro
Drives Like a Dream Porter Shreve
Narralogues: Truth in Fiction  Ronald Sukenick
The Little Friend     Donna Tartt
In the Hand of Dante   Nick Tosches
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men David Foster Wallace
Oblivion  David Foster Wallace
And All the Saints Michael Walsh
Porno   Irvine Welsh
Fray Joss Whedon/Karl Moline
The Otherhood              Lytchcov Zammana
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