Holiday shopping can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Perhaps there’s a big music lover in your life – they already have a top-notch turntable, gold standard vinyls,… Read more »

It’s no secret: I love to read, voraciously even. So, it’s not a surprise to anyone (especially you, dear reader) that I read multiple books at once. It’s kind of… Read more »

Kate Bush fans have something to celebrate. The multifaceted, literary-inspired musician is going to release her first book of lyrics, How to Be Invisible with Faber in December. The cloth-bound tome… Read more »

Books take us on adventures. Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller is a book for music lovers, sci-fi connoisseurs, pop culture hawks, and adventure seekers.… Read more »

When my book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded was about to come out earlier this year, I had plenty of discussions with Melville House’s… Read more »

Some books are just candy. It takes all kinds of books to make the world go round: discursuses on badassery, histories of world-shaping forces, modernist fever-dreams, far-out beardy shit. Sometimes a book comes… Read more »

If the utter madness of the past week tells us anything, it’s that we need a change, pronto. Faced with a total, Trumpian failure of imagination, we must think about other… Read more »

When David Bowie died suddenly on January 10, 2016, so did a part of me. That day, I had already spent forty-eight hours pondering Blackstar, Bowie’s final album, which had… Read more »

In the 1960s and 70s, old mores and lingering repressions were making way for new freedoms, as sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll became the rallying cry for a new generation.… Read more »

As they say, and have always said: if you love something, give it away … to the Library of Congress. That is exactly what collector Stephen A. Geppi has done with part of… Read more »