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Cool books to read, or to just leave around so that people will them and be impressed. Hint: leave a bookmark sticking out near the end of the book.
A full-color tour of the King's bedazzling 1970s stage wardrobe. details
1961 was truly the year of the Boodleheimer. Well, it should have been. "Now you have to sing it again or else you will turn into a bathtub." details
The pulpiest of Jim Thompson's fiction. According to Stanley Kubrick, "Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered." details
According to the author, " It's chock full actual vintage and vintage-inspired craft projects that are clever, charming, sometimes hysterically campy." details
Model rockets, space robots... the sky's the limit. details
Jane and Michael Stern's classic work on cool local food wherever you happen to be. (Hint: no fancy restaurants or national fast food chains are included.). USA Today called it "a bible for motorists seeking mouth-watering barbecue or homemade pie," and People magazine called it "a cross-country culinary guide that should be stashed in every food lover’s glove compartment." details
Clement Greenberg helped convince the world the Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning were important artists and that New York had really become the center of the post-war art world. details
"Some are deadly, some practical, some wacky, but all are genuine and used today on the streets of Japan, at home, and in manga and anime." Much easier than learning spoken or written Japanese. details
Edited by Art Spiegelman, featuring Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, David Sedaris, and more. Get it for your favorite strange kid. details
What we talk about when we talk about—Raymond Carver! details
As its cover describes it, "The legendary underground classic of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets." A classic of hardcore dirt. details
Sarah Vowell can make any historical tour sound interesting and funny, even pilgrimages to the sites of the first three American presidential assassinations. details
Cool comics long before there were "cool" comics. details
When Hollywood was Hollywood, a man was a man, and Bob Evans was that man, baby! details
Legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus' autobiography. More about his sex life than music; chock full of useful tips for the guys! details
Learning French in Paris and other difficult adventures by a funny, sarcastic guy: David Sedaris. details
We thought that there were too many "Zen and (whatever)" books out there, but this clearly fills a market need. Includes the 24 habits of highly effective zombies! details
"Ware's graphically inventive, wonderfully realized novel-in-comics follows the sad fortunes of four generations of phlegmatic, defeated men while touching on themes of abandonment, social isolation and despair within the sweeping depiction of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of a century," but don't let that scare you off. details
By Anaïs Nin. We like our porn nice and classy. And that umlaut over the "i" in her name—ooh la la! details
by Susan Sontag. Reached "Penguin Modern Classic" status a few years ago, and with good reason. details
By Los Brothers Hernandez. Much more interesting and entertaining than the Eric Clapton song with a similar name. details
As in Friars Club Roasts. 2,417 one-liners, straight lines, stories, gags, roasts, ribs and put-downs. details
