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Chuck Klosterman

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Scribner/Simon & Schuster

In this bestselling collection of essays, pop culture critic and writer Chuck Klosterman speaks his mind on everything from "Saved by the Bell" to internet porn.  The Onion A.V. Club calls it “one of the brightest pieces of pop analysis to appear this century.”  Over 500,000 copies in print in six languages.

Dan Kennedy

Rock On

Algonquin/Workman

In this follow-up to his debut memoir Loser Goes First, Dan Kennedy relates the intensely disappointing—and intensely comical—realities of landing his “dream job” at a major record label.  The New York Times calls Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, “a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters.”  Film and TV rights have been optioned by HBO.

Greg Milner

Perfecting Sound Forever

Faber & Faber/FSG

Journalist Greg Milner follows the highs and lows of recording technology and the continuous debates its evolution has spurred in Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music.  Labeled “a compelling adventure story” by The Wall Street Journal and “illuminating” by The Guardian, this chronicle has received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.  New Yorker writer and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Alex Ross says “Milner tells the story with novelistic verve, ferocious attention to detail, and a soulful ambivalence about our quest for sonic perfection.”

Beth Lisick

Everybody Into the Pool

Harper/HarperCollins

Columnist and performer Beth Lisick bares all in the New York Times bestseller Everybody into the Pool: True Tales, a hilarious and intelligent essay collection tracking her journey from suburban homecoming princess to adult homemaker in the middle of alternative culture.  In an A+ review, Entertainment Weekly says, “The tales veer from razor sharp to hilarious, and it’s a voice—both offbeat and upbeat, wised-up yet curiously wholesome—that you’re going to want to hear a lot more of.”

Jerry Levitan

I Met the Walrus

CollinsDesign/HarperCollins

At the age of 14, Jerry Levitan entered John Lennon’s and Yoko Ono’s hotel room, pretending to be with a crew from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  Amazingly, the three became instant friends.  Last year, the documentary he produced under the same title was nominated for an Academy Award.  Now, Jerry tells the story from his point of view in this beautifully illustrated book, of how his life led him to an act of chutzpah that changed everything.

A.V. Club

Inventory

Scribner/Simon & Schuster

A collection of original pop culture lists on topics from film, music, television, books, comics, and videogames.  Also included are guest lists from such entertainment luminaries as Amy Sedaris, John Hodgman and Patton Oswalt.  The sub-title says it all: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by the Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop Culture Lists.  The A.V. Club is the arts-and-entertainment arm of The Onion.  It receives more than one million unique website visitors per month.