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New York Magazine
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Cursed from Birth
Being the son of counter-culture author William S. Burroughs is bound to be a trial. After all, the man who frequented lesbian dives and had a fascination with firearms couldn't possibly make that great of a father. Perhaps inevitably, William Jr. (called Billy) referred to himself as "cursed from birth" and in the book of the same name editor David Ohle collects parts of Billy's third and unfinished novel Prakriti Junction, his last journals and poems, and correspondence and conversations to recreate this tortured life. Endowed with the sufferings — but not the patience — of Job, Billy's life was often characterized by tragedy and frustration, although there were also pockets of success and levity. More than just the memoir of a casualty of the Beat Generation, Cursed From Birth provides rare insight in Billy's father, as well as his scene, friends, and times. It also provides an all-too-familiar story of familial difficulties that anyone with difficult parents can understand and appreciate.
The Homestead
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The Animated Movie Guide
Going beyond the box-office hits of Disney and Dreamworks, this guide to every animated movie ever released in the United States covers more than 300 films over the course of nearly 80 years of film history. Well-known films such as Finding Nemo and Shrek are profiled and hundreds of other films, many of them rarely discussed, are analyzed, compared, and catalogued. The origin of the genre and what it takes to make a great animated feature are discussed, and the influence of Japanese animation, computer graphics, and stop-motion puppet techniques are brought into perspective. Every film analysis includes reviews, four-star ratings, background information, plot synopses, accurate running times, consumer tips, and MPAA ratings. Brief guides to made-for-TV movies, direct-to-video releases, foreign films that were never theatrically released in the U.S., and live-action films with significant animation round out the volume.
The Organ Grinders
Paul is a committed environmentalist. He`s committed to saving the baboons from his arch-enemy`s experimental farms. Georgette is a committed environmentalist. She`s committed to saving the environment from the scum of the human race. Whatever it takes. And Landis is committed. He`s committed to saving his own ass from a genetic disease. Even if it means experimenting on the baboons Paul wants to save. And he`ll stop at nothing to prevent Paul interfering, including taking out a contract on him. But Georgette and Paul realise they will have to do anything and everything to stop Landis making a monkey out of them. And to save the baboons, guerrilla warefare is only the beginning . . .
Cocaine and Rhinestones
From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple—George Jones and Tammy Wynette. By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After taking honky-tonk rockers like “White Lightning” all the way up the country charts, he revealed himself to be an unmatched virtuoso on “She Thinks I Still Care,” thus cementing his status as a living legend. That’s where the trouble started. Only at this new level of fame did Jones realize he suffered from extreme stage fright. His method of dealin...
William Faulkner and Southern History
One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place--the mythical Yoknapatawpha County--peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons, Sartorises, Snopes, and McCaslins. Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored his own region--the history and culture and people of the South. Now, in William Faulkner and Southern History, one of America's most acclaim...
Oscar Peterson
Der kanadische Jazzpianist Oscar Peterson (1925-2007), der am 15. August 2025 seinen 100. Geburtstag gefeiert hätte, war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende. Johannes Kunz, der Peterson persönlich gut gekannt hat, porträtiert diesen Ausnahmekünstler in einem reich bebilderten Werk. Oscar Peterson hat in seiner Karriere 200 eigene Alben veröffentlicht und ist auf etwa 400 weiteren zu hören, hat mehr Platten verkauft und mehr Konzerte gegeben als jeder andere Pianist in der Geschichte des Jazz. Kein Pianist hat mehr zur Anerkennung des Jazz als Kunstform und zur weltweiten Popularisierung dieser Musik beigetragen. Quincy Jones, Produzent, Trompeter, Komponist und Bandleader, urteilte: "Oscar Peterson war einer der letzten Giganten des Jazz. Seine Musik wird ewig Bestand haben". Johannes Kunz, der Peterson seit den 1960er-Jahren persönlich kannte und mit ihm Konzerte veranstaltet hat, zeichnet anhand von Gesprächen mit ihm, seinem Manager Norman Granz und musikalischen Mitstreitern wie Ray Brown oder Ella Fitzgerald ein faszinierendes und reich bebildertes Porträt dieses umjubelten Künstlers.
