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The Best of Books

By Brian Pettus

1. Make Your Moment: The Savvy Woman’s Communication Playbook for Getting the Success You Want, by Dion Lim (hardcover) 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball (Book 14), by Jeff ... Read More
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The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Brian Pettus

1. Sophia of Silicon Valley: A Novel, by Anna Yen (paperback) 2. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (... Read More
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The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Brian Pettus

1. The Goldfinch: A Novel, by Donna Tartt(paperback) 2. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, by Mike Isaac (hardcover) 3. A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel, by Amor Towles (paperback) ... Read More
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The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Brian Pettus

1. The Wedding Party, by Jasmine Guillory (paperback) 2. Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel, by Celeste Ng (paperback) 3. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens (hardcover) 4. A Wom... Read More
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The life of curator and eccentric raconteur Walter Hopps in ‘The Dream Colony: A Life in Art’

By Sharon Anderson

Many of us can’t remember a world where Andy Warhol’s soup can paintings and Roy Lichtenstein’s ben day dots weren’t a ubiquitous part of modern art’s visual landscape. O... Read More
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San Francisco is ready for its close-up

A new look at the city’s personalities is a biography of the ever-changing city by the bay
By John Zipperer

San Francisco is having an identity crisis. People are arguing and legislating and propositioning about what the city is and what it is becoming. Who are these new people filling u... Read More
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Author Jed Rasula presents a new history of Dada in Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and The Unmaking of the Twentieth Century

By Sharon Anderson

Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to ... Read More
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‘The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers,’ by Noah Charney 

By Sharon Anderson

Hold! You crafty ones, strangers to work, and pilferers of other men’s brains! Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works. Beware! Know you not that I have a ... Read More
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‘Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960–2010,’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

By Ernest Beyl

I just finished reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s latest book Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015, $35). Usually I a... Read More
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Ki Longfellow on writing ‘The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall’

By Sharon Anderson

Musician, singer, writer, and artist Vivian Stanshall is perhaps best known as the charismatic front man of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, whose albums and stage antics brought them... Read More
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Sigmar Polke, founder of Capital Realism art movement

By Sharon Anderson

"You can't exist in a vacuum, you are rooted in time."... Read More
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Charles Plymell’s early writings revisited in ‘Benzedrine Highway’

By Sharon Anderson

“Plymell has as much to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about it in terms of the present generation stillborn into a world that can offer nothing.”  —... Read More
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Duchamp revisited in book of interviews by Calvin Tomkins

By Sharon Anderson

“I don’t believe in art. I believe in the artist.” — Marcel Duchamp When he first met Marcel Duchamp in 1959, Calvin Tomkins was not the famous art critic he wo... Read More
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Ed Ruscha Revisits ‘Some Los Angeles Apartments’

By Sharon Anderson

“My pictures are not that interesting nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts.” — Ed Ruscha Fifty years ago, contemporary artist Ed Ruscha publi... Read More
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Punk poetics: Richard Hell in his own words

By Sharon Anderson

“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.” — Comte de Lautréamont The ripple effect of an influential life creates plot developments to rival the greatest novels. ... Read More

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