books about: interzone (twentieth districts)

books about: interzone

books:

Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century

1 review
Kevin Mumford

Columbia University Press, 1997

1920s: Miscegenation as Vice???
Nowadays, most of us would assume some (and I stress, some) people may turn up their noses to interracial couplings or encourage their children not to partake of it, Little would most of us realize that the government and various police departments were actively engaged in keeping people of different races from getting sexually or romantically involved with each other. Well, just like now, the ...

Bar Code: Your Personal Pocket Decoder to the Modern Dating Scene

7 reviews
Stephanie Naman, Wendy Tatum, ...

Conari Press, 2006

I loved it. I hated it.
PENS ENVY [penz en-vee]. n. The green-eyed fury that you haven't either the wit or the perception of the authors of this hilarious definitions book.

Last Dance in Havana

4 reviews
Eugene Robinson

Free Press, 2004

The beat of modern Cuba throbs on every page
Eugene Robinson is a fine journalist who writes with style and confidence. His reportage is highly original. He completely avoids the well-worn path of hoary political analysis and gets out onto the streets and into the clubs of Cuba to produce a fascinating account of modern Cuba at the end of the Castro era. Some of the passages in this book really resonate - travel writing of a high order that ...

Interzone

9 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990

essential reading to really fully grasp burroughs genius
Burroughs has incredible insight and an unmatched knack for spotting a con. This book contains an invaluable collection of short stories and journal rants that really showcase an emerging writer exploding with ideas in the transient surroundings of Tangier, which he describes as "the listening post of the world": "Here East meets West in a final debacle of misunderstanding, each seeking the ...

Native Sons: A Friendship that Created One of the Greatest Works of the 20th Century: Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin, Sol Stein

One World/Ballantine, 2004

James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son , established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book?s reception than Baldwin?s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, and playwright, Stein had suggested that Baldwin do the book and coaxed his old friend through the long and sometimes agonizing ...

Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds

11 reviews
Robert Coover, Maureen Gibbon, ...

Chronicle Books, 2007

buy it cheaper
Just as Taschen are releasing a 2nd edition of the massive 'Stanley Kubrik Archives' on October 8, so too are Chronicle Books, releasing a 2nd edition of this huge book of Playboy centrefolds with a $50 retail and $36.50 Amazon pre-order price. - Oct.4 At this moment, Amazon has a very large discount ($150, not $500) on the first printing, probably due to the spreading awareness of the future ...