Interview: Samantha Bee Author of I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Simon & Schusterwww.simonandschuster.com Most of us know comedian Samantha Bee from her work on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she appears as a veteran mock news reporter who skewers politicians and pundits who have gone off the rails. Classic bits include riffs on Elliot Spitzer’s hooker-gate, Sarah Palin’s resignation as Alaska’s […]
Interview: Amanda Palmer
If you have yet to discover Amanda Palmer, prepare to be mesmerized. She’s got a critically acclaimed new album, Theatre is Evil, with an über-cool accompanying art book, The Grand Theft Art Companion. She’s got almost 900,000 Twitter followers. And she gives her music away for free. www.amandapalmer.net | facebook.com/amandapalmer youtube.com/amandapalmer | twitter: @amandapalmer Shelf […]
Interview: Wayne Thiebaud
by John Wilmderding Acquavella Gallerieswww.acquavellagalleries.com Rizolli International Publicationswww.rizzoliusa.com “In a career of almost unparalleled longevity and qualitative consistency, he has gained a much-admired seniority among American realist painters. Known for his sensuous brushwork, strong saturated colors, and manipulated spatial design, he has produced an unmistakably singular body of images in an equally personal style of […]
Interview: Kathleen Koch Author of Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered
John F. Blair, Publisherwww.blairpub.com In her account of the surreal experience of reporting on the all-but-complete destruction of her hometown of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, former CNN reporter Kathleen Koch gives what may be the best description of Hurricane Katrina’s impact for those of us lucky enough not to have been caught in its path. […]
Excerpt: Reborn and Other Versifications by A.E. Fonner
www.aefonner.com From “Preface” The thing about poetry is that it is very personal. I think a poet is suddenly inspired and locks him—or herself off in some closet to breathe life with words into the idea that had struck. When poets are done, what have they to show for their effort? A few lines on […]
Interview: Greg Gorman Author of FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks
FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks Photography by Greg Gorman Grafiche Damiani www.laeyeworks.com/framed For 30 years, photographer Greg Gorman has made an artful, hip spectacle of artful, hip spectacles with his portrait images for l.a.Eyeworks’ legendary ad campaign, now featured in the new book FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks. We talk eyewear and icons with Gorman. […]
Interview: Pam Grier Author of Foxy: My Life in Three Acts
Grand Central Publishingwww.hatchettebookgroup.com A gentleman answers the phone. “Hello?” “Hi, can I please speak with Pam Grier?” “Just a minute.” Strains of opera music can be heard in the background. About a minute goes by, then faint shouting can be heard in the distance. “Pam!” There is a long pause. “Pam!” Another pause. “Pam!” Another […]
Feature: The Jazz Age: New perspectives on the era that begat Gatsby.
The Astaires: Fred & AdeleBy Kathleen Riley Oxford University Presswww.oup.com The shows written for the Astaires’ singular talents changed the very shape of the American musical. Their first major collaboration with George and Ira Gershwin, Lady, Be Good! in 1924, was, according to Gershwin biographer Howard Pollack, “one of the quintessential American theatrical works of […]
Excerpt: Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978 by Steve Crist and Hugh Holland
On a sunny L.A. day in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland was driving up Laurel Canyon Boulevard when he saw something he, and most everyone else, had never witnessed before. Something that made him stop his car and grab his camera. Because, out of the corner of his eye, it looked like one […]
Interview: Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited by Marc Schuster
Tired of California examines the efforts of the Beach Boys to reinvent themselves in the early 1970s as they recorded their critically acclaimed Holland album. Smashwords Shelf Unbound: Your new book Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited explores the album recorded in the Netherlands. What inspired you to tackle this particular work? Marc […]