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  • Television's Marquee Moon

    by Bryan Waterman ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs an awning with the new name for his venue. The place will be called CBGB & OMFUG which, he tells them, stands for “Country Bluegrass and Blues & Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers.” That's exactly the sort of stuff they play, they lie, somehow managing to get a gig out of him. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Republic of Intellect

    The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

    by Bryan Waterman ...
    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    In the 1790s, a single conversational circle—the Friendly Club—united New York City's most ambitious young writers, and in Republic of Intellect, Bryan Waterman uses an innovative blend of literary criticism and historical narrative to re-create the club's intellectual culture. The story of the Friendly Club reveals the mutually informing conditions of authorship, literary association, print ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

    by Horatio Alger, Bryan Waterman ...
    A plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically, Dick is also honest and hardworking. A quintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming-of-age, it is also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirty street urchin to gentleman. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

    Edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell, Bryan Waterman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    by Rob Trucks ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Route 19 Revisited

    The Clash and London Calling

    by Marcus Gray ...
    Twenty-eight years after its original release, The Clash’s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.” It topped polls on both sides of the Atlantic for the best album of the seventies (and eighties) and in publications as wide-ranging as Rolling Stone, VIBE, Pitchfork, and NME, and it regularly hits the top ten on ... Read more

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  • Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica

    by Kevin Courrier ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape.Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of music, much of the record's artistic strength is actually drawn from the ... Read more

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  • Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood"

    by Ralph F. Voss ...
    Truman Capote and the Legacy ofIn Cold Blood is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.Ralph F. Vosswas a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by “four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives,” an unimaginable horror in a quiet farm ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime

    by Mr. Michael T. Fournier ...
    Series series 33 1/3
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  • Cormac McCarthy

    All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road

    Edited by Sara Spurgeon ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac McCarthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    by Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines ... Read more

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  • Wire's Pink Flag

    by Wilson Neate ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more revolutionary musically than the rest of the competition. Few punk bands moved beyond pared-down rock 'n' roll and garage rock, football-terrace sing-alongs or ... Read more

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