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One of our fastest-selling books in recent memory is Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip, by Nevin Martell. The book tells the tale of Watterson’s early years and his massive creative and commercial success, while documenting Nevin’s ongoing attempts to get in touch with the […]

Many congratulations to Carl Wilson – his book for the series on Celine Dion has made it on to Paste magazine’s list of the 20 Best Books of the Decade. If you haven’t read it yet, perhaps this might nudge you over the cliff. 20. Chuck Klosterman – Killing Yourself to Live19. Malcolm Gladwell –

[This is coming up over the weekend, so I thought I would bump it to the top of the page…] Michael Fournier and Zeth Lundy will be doing a pair of joint readings from their 33 1/3s on The Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime and Stevie Wonder’s Songs In the Key of Life in

One of the 33 1/3 books we’ll be publishing in the early spring of 2010 is Christopher Weingarten’s stellar study of Public Enemy’s second album. Here’s an early taste of the book: *** Around the release of Revolution, James Brown started noticing that radio was being segregated and formatted by genre. Despite the fact that

Those of you who’ve been waiting since, oh, 2005 for the books on “London Calling” or “Pretty Hate Machine” – we have good news. Both manuscripts are in, today. Genuinely amazing! Which makes me very happy, as does this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yMhU8k2afA&hl=en&fs=1&] (Although obviously the 10-minute version is better, and this video is crap, but whatever)

Four quick addenda to David’s post below about Geeta’s book on Mr. Eno: A link to the piece Geeta wrote for Rhizome, on Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics. A bit of info about Tom Phillips, painter of the cover art for Another Green World, via Ed Park at Disambiguation. Just posted at Pitchfork this morning,

We’re very pleased to announce that Geeta Dayal’s long-awaited book for the series about Brian Eno’s Another Green World album is finally on sale and fully distributed throughout North America. As Geeta herself would be the first to admit, it wasn’t the easiest book to write – but the results are well worth it. Here’s

D.X. Ferris, author of the 33 1/3 volume on Slayer’s Reign in Blood album, has a great piece on Rolling Stone.com about the making of the classic They Might Be Giants album, Flood. As a bonus, here are two chunks that didn’t make it into the final article: 1: Flood was the band’s major-label debut,

Those of you in NYC might be interested in an event that’s happening at Issue Project Room in Gowanus, Brooklyn on Saturday evening, to celebrate the publication of our book In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art by Seth Kim-Cohen. The evening will feature performances of works by Alvin Lucier, Marina

For those of you who’ve been patiently waiting for the 33 1/3 Brian Eno volume, I can finally announce that it is, indeed, real. We received our advance copies from the printers in Canada yesterday. It’ll likely be another 10-14 days before books reach Amazon, B&N, and all of the fabulous independent book and record