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A close look at John Carpenter's 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop"--P. (4) of cover.

THE ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST OF GREAT WRITING ABOUT THE MUSIC THAT ROCKED AMERICA Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding, Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin, E...

Containing 22 long-out-of-print stories, this collection shines the spotlight on bygone superheroes from the dawn of the comic-book format, including Wonder Man, Spacehawk, Blue Bolt, and Rex Dexter. It also contains artwork by such comics luminaries as Fletcher Hanks, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Basil Wolverton.

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Novela ágil y divertida, para un público joven.Una comedia romántica ambientada en Los Angeles, con una peculiar banda musical como protagonista.Lucinda Hoekke, la bajista de un grupo de rock alternativo, trabaja durante el día como telefonista para una línea de atención al cliente. Un día decide conocer a uno de sus clientes, que lleva tiempo llamándola insistentemente a la línea de quejas para seducirla con sus palabras. De inmediato, se ena...

«Tengo el síndrome de Tourette.» Las palabras salen atropellándose, incontrolables, y las manos no pueden evitar tocar impulsiva y c ompulsivamente todo lo que tengan cerca. Es el sino de Lionel Essrog, criado en un orfanato y que, junto con sus tres amigos de la infancia, trabaja para un mafiosillo local, Frank Minna, en una agencia ilegal de detectives.. El asesinato de Frank le obligará a sumergirse en la trama, compleja y llena de sombras,...

Chase Insteadman is a handsome former child-star, living a routine of dinner parties and glamorous engagements on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Meanwhile, his astronaut fiancée, trapped on the International Space Station, sends him rapturous love letters. Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a pop-critic, whose conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers and a desperate ache for meaning. Together, Chase and ...

A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life-permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancée, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling Space Station....

Announcing the third annual collection of the year's best essays and articles on music. It's "music-geek rapture."-Entertainment Weekly

At the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders--home to a curious group of enigmatic aborigines that baffles and frightens human visitors.

Verfilmung von und mit Edward Norton und Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis und Alec Baldwin! »Lethem ist ein König der Sätze. Sein Talent ist riesig und sein Blick so scharf wie eh und je.« New York Times Ein ermordeter Mafioso mit großem Herz und großer Klappe. Ein kleiner Gangster mit Tourette-Syndrom auf der Spur des Verbrechens. Messerscharfe Dialoge und grandioser Sprachwitz vor der Kulisse der Unterwelt Brooklyns. Das Waisenhaus St. Vincents...

Chase Insteadman, ein ehemaliger Kinderstar, ist fester Bestandteil der New Yorker High Society. Sein soziales Ansehen verdankt er einem Unglück, das in der Klatschpresse für Furore sorgt: Seine Verlobte Janice Trumbull schwebt manövrierunfähig im Weltraum, von wo sie ihm herzzerreißende Liebesbriefe schreibt. Auch Chase treibt haltlos durch seinen Alltag, bis er den schielenden Kulturkritiker Perkus Tooth kennenlernt. Zwischen Migräneanfällen...

From the funked-up, messed-up Brookyn of the 1970s to the present day, this stunning novel spans thirty years in the life of two best friends, their families and an entire neighbourhood. From their stories comes the history of soul music, graffiti art, comic books, experimental film and 'rock writing'. A touching and intimate novel on an epic scale.