Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.

Savage guns: When a tavern owner double-crosses the wrong man, he and his posse get revenge by shooting up the bar and then burning it down. The owner and several of his patrons are killed, but one man survives and is able to pull himself from the burning wreckage. After he is taken in by strangers and nursed back to health, the lone survivor takes a vow of vengeance and begins a quest to stalk down the killer and his cohorts. The sundowners: James...

“That’s NOT the way it was!” say five characters from some of the world’s most beloved fairy tales. In reality, Cinderella wasn’t the sweetest belle of the ball. She was an annoying chatterbox. Jack was a petty thief. And Little Red Riding Hood? Spoiled rotten! It’s all about point of view. Pull up a chair, and get the full scoop straight from the mouths of the wicked stepmother, the giant, the prince, Baby Bear, and the wolf. Get the...

This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in...

The definitive visual guide to explore 1,000 years of classical music, the composers and their music.

In the late sixties and early seventies, Los Angeles was a hotbed of musical creativity--the home base of Joni Mitchell, the Eagles, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, among many others. Now, drawing on exclusive interviews with many of the leading players, music journalist Hoskyns recreates the excitement, ferment, and energy of those years. We see the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell's...

Looks at the history of rock music, its different styles, and its impact on a generation.

A look at how superhero characters have evolved in the comic book industry.

White Comanche: A pair of half-white, half-Comanche Indian twi brothers -- both played by William Shatner -- constantly find themselves at odds and at war with each other. after much conflict and after a desperate struggle with their identities, they find an even ground and even a little brotherly love. Great American West: The legacy of famed film director John Ford is the focus of The Great American West and involves the comprehensive, intimate...

"This is a book about the whirlwind of creativity, the passionate drive to make art born of individuated experience that is both unique and unduplicatable... This singular new book of profiles represents not so much a summation as a culmination of Peter Guralnick's groundbreaking work over the years, covering not only the vast sweep of the American musical landscape but its profound personal impact on the author as well"--Adapted from jacket flap....