As seen in Vanity Fair: A rollicking, funny, raunchy, and moving oral history of the adult film industry–from Deep Throat through today.
 As a recent New York Times Magazine cover story pointed out to average Americans, the adult film industry is a $10 billion–per–year business. It has infiltrated the American mainstream, with its stars showing up as mainstream TV hosts, making guest appearances in Hollywood feature films, and gracing the CD covers–and arms–of rock stars and Hollywood actors alike. But what most people don't know is how the porn industry got started–with a $22,000 Mafia investment in a film called Deep Throat–or how it mushroomed over the next quarter–century despite efforts by politicians, the FBI, and others to bring it down.
 The Other Hollywood tells that story, through hundreds of interviews by the people who lived through it. In the riveting oral–history format that made his first book, Please Kill Me, one of the most memorable accounts of 1970s underground culture, Legs McNeil now pulls back the grimy satin sheets on one of the most astounding success stories in the history of American business. Careening back and forth between two groups–the actresses, directors, and others who made the films and the shady underworld figures who financed them–The Other Hollywood offers scores of never–before–told stories, all in the voices of those who lived them.
 Witty, always compelling, and ultimately moving, The Other Hollywood is a Hollywood Babylon for today.

The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry

Humor & Entertainment

MCNEIL, Legs

Osborne, Jennifer

Pavia, Peter

Movies

It Books

A raucous and revealing oral history of the birth of the adult film industry, The Other Hollywood peels back the candy coating to let the true story be told -- by the stars, movie makers, and other industry players who lived it. And what a story it is: Through hundreds of original interviews, contemporary newspaper accounts, police reports, court testimony, and more, Legs McNeil and coauthors Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia trace today's billion-dollar industry from its makeshift, mob-connected origins to the Internet age. Along the way we encounter porn stars such as Linda Lovelace, John Holmes, Traci Lords, and Savannah -- along with countless mainstream stars, politicians, FBI agents, and more. 
Epic, hilarious, and moving, The Other Hollywood contributes to the porn industry the one thing missing in all previous accounts: a vivid, tragicomic, irresistible humanity.

Reference

Regan Books/Harper-collins

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Artists, reporters, and groupies chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground and give backstage accounts of drugs, sex, and power struggles

Arts & Photography

MCCAIN, Gillian

Music

Penguin??Books

Please Kill Me : The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Little,Brown

Chronicles Pepsi-Cola's alignment with popular culture as a marketing strategy, describing the corporation's subsequent influence on world culture through one hundred vignettes that highlight such figures as James Dean, Elvis, and the Beatles.

Pop Culture: 100 Stories from Pepsi-Cola's First 100 Years

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Byron Preiss Multimedia Books

Ranks up there with the great rock &amp; roll books of all time.”Time Out New York Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity.”The New York Times No volume serves juicier dish on punk’s New York birth . . . Tales of sex, drugs and music that will make you wish you’d been there.”Rolling Stone A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era. This 20th anniversary edition features new photos and an afterword by the authors. Utterly and shamelessly sensational.”Newsday

GROVE PRESS

A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to this definitive account of that outrageous, explosive era. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol’s New York reign to its last gasps as eighties corporate rock, the phenomenon known as punk is scrutinized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there and who made it happen.

A real teen's diary so raw and edgy it will not be forgotten.
They say that high school is supposed to be the best time of your life. But what if that's just not true? More than anything, Mary Rose wants to fit in. To be loved. And she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. 
Even if it costs her her life.
Told through the raw and unflinching diary entries of a real teen, Mary Rose struggles with addiction, bullying, and a deadly secret. Her compelling story will inspire you―and remind you that you're not alone.
"Mary Rose's diary is a heart-wrenching tale of a young girl trying to figure everything out."―VOYA "The writing style has a beautiful lyricism... Readers will appreciate this unflinchingly honest work."―School Library Journal

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

Sourcebooks Fire

They call me a freak. I'm sick of it. It makes me want dangerous, bad things. Drugs-hard drugs-and people who are bad for me, but I don't care, because I'm so lonely and no matter what their intentions are at least they're talking to me...
They say that high school is supposed to be the best time of your life. But what if that's just not true? More than anything, Mary Rose wants to fit in. To be loved. And she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. 
Even if it costs her her life.
Told through the raw and unflinching diary entries of a real teen, Mary Rose struggles with addiction, bullying, and a deadly secret. Her compelling story will inspire you-and remind you that you're not alone.
"Mary Rose's diary is a heart-wrenching tale of a young girl trying to figure everything out."-VOYA "The writing style has a beautiful lyricism... Readers will appreciate this unflinchingly honest work."-School Library Journal

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The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry

The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Please Kill Me : The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Pop Culture: 100 Stories from Pepsi-Cola's First 100 Years

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose

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