The Acme Novelty Library

Written by Chris Ware

Format: Hardcover, 108 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-42295-9 (0-375-42295-1)

Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with “The ACME Novelty Library,” a hardcover distillation of all his surviving one-page... Read more >

Hip Hop Matters
Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
Written by S. Craig Watkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0986-4 (0-8070-0986-5)

Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the “hip hop generation,” Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the... Read more >

The Young and the Digital
What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future
Written by S. Craig Watkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0616-0 (0-8070-0616-5)

In The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins skillfully draws from more than 500 surveys and 350 in-depth interviews with young people, parents, and educators to understand how a digital lifestyle is affecting the ways youth learn, play, bond, and communicate. Timely and deeply relevant, the book covers the influence... Read more >

Factory Made
Warhol and the Sixties
Written by Steven Watson

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-42372-0 (0-679-42372-9)

Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties is a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together—from 1964 to 1968—as Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory, a cast that included Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Billy Name, Candy Darling, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Berlin, Ultra Violet, and... Read more >

Bob Dylan in America

Written by Sean Wilentz

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-3179-3 (0-7679-3179-3)

Sean Wilentz discovered Bob Dylan’s music as a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village. Now, almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan.

Beginning with Dylan’s explosion onto the scene in 1961, Wilentz follows the... Read more >

The Protest Singer
An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
Written by Alec Wilkinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39098-1 (0-307-39098-5)

A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger, and his life and his accomplishments.

Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a first hand look... Read more >

One Man's America
The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
Written by George Will

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-40786-3 (0-307-40786-1)

In his provocative and compelling new book, America’s most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the people, stories, and events–often unheralded–that make the American drama so endlessly... Read more >

The Boys from Little Mexico
A Season Chasing the American Dream
Written by Steve Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0152-3 (0-8070-0152-X)

In the tradition of Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, a sensitive and clear-eyed journalist takes us deep inside Oregon’s only all-Hispanic boys’ high school soccer team, a team whose players stand on the cusp of change.

The all-Hispanic boys’ soccer team from Woodburn High has made the playoffs for nineteen straight years--but... Read more >

Lucking Out
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-3062-8 (0-7679-3062-2)

From one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful/wonderful Seventies.

In the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter... Read more >

Lucking Out
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Written by James Wolcott

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52778-1 (0-385-52778-0)

"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”

That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no... Read more >

We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project

Written by Workhorse and PAC
Foreword by Eric Haze AKA HAZE

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2494-8 (0-7893-2494-6)

From early 2009 to mid-2010, the Underbelly Project was the world’s best-kept urban art secret. This is the only book documenting the project, during which the world’s leading urban artists, such as Swoon, Faile, Revok, and Lister, made late-night trips to an abandoned New York City subway station, painting night after... Read more >

Saints and Sinners
Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox
Written by Lawrence Wright

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 16, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76163-1 (0-679-76163-2)

In this fascinating book about religion in America, one of this country's most probing yet sympathetic journalists puts forth stories not only of real grace but of despair, sexual scandal, and attempted murder.

Lawrence Wright’s Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire gospel with rock ‘n’ roll abandon before... Read more >

Surveillance Means Security
Remixed War Propaganda
Written by Micah Ian Wright
Foreword by J.R. Norton

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-741-1 (1-58322-741-5)

Subversive and incendiary, this full-color poster book reworks classic war propaganda to comment on corporate corruption, domestic spying, election fraud, gay marriage, blind patriotism, the “War on Terror,” and surveillance in America today.

With laughs and jeers, Wright’s distinctive artwork and astute political commentary offers timely and clever insight into the state... Read more >

Artists in Times of War

Written by Howard Zinn

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-602-5 (1-58322-602-8)

“Political power,” says Howard Zinn, “is controlled by the corporate elite, and the arts are the locale for a kind of guerilla warfare in the sense that guerillas look for apertures and opportunities where they can have an effect.” In Artists in Times of War, Zinn looks at the possibilities to... Read more >

Robert Altman
The Oral Biography
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38791-2 (0-307-38791-7)

Robert Altman’s outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few enemies, as well as the agents, writers, crew members, producers, and stars who worked with him, including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman... Read more >