Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically. From accolades to agony, Girlvert illuminates the surreality of a life lived beyond all comprehension.

Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

Oriana Small

Humor & Entertainment

Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book

In this collection you’ll encounter starry-eyed sinners, street corner revolutionaries, Hollywood hustlers, over-heated politicians, rightwing assholes, a ghost or two, cavorting cops, architects with issues, and a little old lady with a popgunall out to make their mark in the city of dreams and despair.

Monkology: 15 Stories from the World of Private Eye Ivan Monk

Literature & Fiction

Phillips, Gary

United States

Balls: A Novel

A New York story, a dark comedy, Balls tells of the thirty-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player, in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than himself, one with her eye on other men and the rise of her own career, whose crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer.

Tepper, Julian

In 2008, Tosh Berman—author and publisher of TamTam Books—got on a plane with a single motive: Sparks Spectacular. It had been announced that the band Sparks would perform all twenty-one of their albums in a succession of twenty-one nights in London...a monumental experience for any Sparks fanatic, which Tosh certainly is. Part travel journal, part personal memoir, Berman takes us through the streets of London and Paris, observing each city's history and culture through the eye of an obsessive Sparks fan. Including album-by-album reviews of all twenty-one shows and beyond, Sparks-Tastic defines a place and time in music history that's too defining to be ignored.

Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London

Arts & Photography

Berman, Tosh

Music

Ventriloquist: Two Plays & Ventriloquial Miscellany goes deep into the world of notable American playwright Rick Mitchell’s performative and diabolical examination of ventriloquism and the duality of man, featuring two of his most respected and autobiographical works: Ventriloquist Sex and Ventriloquist Adrift; as well as Bone, a poem with a nod to Jasper Johns’s Ventriloquist; Radical Ventriloquism: Mimesis, Violence, and the Caste War of Yucatán; Dr. Mitchell’s Ventriloquism & Comedy Workshop; How to Build a Quick and Cheap Puppet; an introduction by Mitchell; and a foreword by the acclaimed author of No ApplauseJust Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, Trav S.D., a modern-day vaudevillian and theater critic.

Ventriloquist: Two Plays

MITCHELL, Rick

Dramas & Plays

Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it. Hipsters scoff at it. Yes Is The Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters, the first literary collection devoted to the sub-genre. Featuring acclaimed novelists Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, Charles Bock, and Joe Meno, as well as musicians Nathan Larson, and Peter Case, Yes Is The Answer is a book that dares to reclaim prog-rock as a subject worthy of serious consideration.

Yes Is The Answer: (And Other Prog-Rock Tales) (The Mixtape Series)

Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, Typee was immensely popular and regarded in Melville's lifetime as his best work. It established his reputation as the literary discoverer of the South Seas and inspired the likes of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson. Two common sailors jump ship and are held in benign captivity by Polynesian natives. Through the narrator's eyes we see a literate (if romanticized) portrait of the people and their culture presented in vivid, even scientific, detail. Melville's racy style and irreverence toward Christian missionaries caused a scandal, and critics denounced the narrator's suggestion that the native life might be superior to that of modern civilization. An adventure story above all, albeit one with a philosophical bent with evil and mystery lurking beneath the idyllic setting, Typee is a combination of elements that even early in Melville's career hinted at the towering ambition he would fulfill with Moby-Dick.

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas

MELVILLE, HERMAN

Classics

Bad Sex On Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerge are at once devastating, hysterical, and—perhaps most terrifying of all—going on all around you, all the time. Stahl digs deep into the psyche of the most demented and dispossessed among us, returning with a vision so unsparing that those not prepared to experience the screaming depths of speed psychosis up close and on the page should back slowly away and return to their lives unscathed.

Bad Sex On Speed: A Novel

Stahl, Jerry

His most personal work to date, award-winning photographer Carlos Batts explores the often stigmatized world of the "fat girl" in his fourth published collection of photographs with wife, adult film actress, and plus-size model, April Flores. Featuring new and intimate photographs (including Flores' never-before-seen, highly mythologized early "blonde" Polaroids), Fat Girl captures an exquisite perspective unique to the celebrated "culture of beauty."

Fat Girl

Photography & Video

A no-holds-barred memoir of legendary Dead Kennedys and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer D.H. Peligro, Dreadnaught chronicles Peligro from his pre-DK years growing up in a deprived St. Louis ghetto to his years in San Francisco with Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Klaus Flouride—from Los Angeles with the Red Hot Chili Peppers through years of drug and alcohol abuse all over the world amidst a backdrop of some of the most defining periods of late twentieth century cultural, social, and music history.

Dreadnaught: King of Afropunk

Peligro, D.H.

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