Sal Mineo (left) with James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause"
Sal Mineo: A Biography
By Michael Gregg Michaud384 pages, plus photosCrown Archetype, $25.99, hardcoverISBN 978-0-307-71868-6
Sal Mineo was one of the most promising new stars of the 1950s, ...
Larry Kramer (right) comforts Vito Russo in his California home several months before he died.Photo from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration website
La Dolce Vito
"Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo"By Michael SchiaviUniversity of ...
Life Is a Trip: The Magic of Transformative Travel
By Judith Fein128 pagesSpirituality & Health BooksAugust 2010(See video clip below.)
One famous travel writer, Bruce Chatwin, once asked another, Paul Theroux, what he thought about his work. (This ...
Peter Heller, author of "Kook"Photo by Eric Weber
Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life and Catching the Perfect Wave
By Peter HellerFree PressJuly 2010304 pages
There are worse ways to indulge a midlife crisis than to take ...
Good Books for Hard TimesReprinted with permission from the author, San Francisco Chronicle. Sunday, March 8, 2009 "In a democratic society, where every individual opinion counts, [literature's] incomparable ability to instruct, to make alternatives intellectually and emotionally clear, to ...
Moshpit: The Violent World of Mosh Pit Culture Joe Ambrose I've a confession to make to you, dear readers: I spent a good deal of my youth running around in circles, bumping into fellow frustrated, disenfranchised ...
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias And The News Eric Alterman Are the media biased? Well, it depends on how you look at it. Fox News Channel, for example, is a right-wing ...
Fat, Broke & Lonely No More!—Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places. by Victoria Moran Harper One, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, 2007, New York website ...
As a professional journalist, Lucinda Franks has been trained to uncover even the most closely-held information. That skill has served her well over the years, particularly in the 1970s, when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a newspaper series ...
U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security By J. Peter Scoblic New York, Penguin Group, 2008 Website Of the recent books dealing with right-wing foreign policy, J. Peter Scoblic’s U.S. vs. Them may ...
