In its current form, Go the F*ck To Sleep, is a perfectly fun “bedtime book for parents.” Written by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by author/artist Ricardo Cortes, the soothing collaboration does not coddle the child rearing experience, it subverts it. And yet, the book just got even better with this audio version narrated by Samuel L. “Fucking” Jackson. Available free for a limited time here.
Swedish illustrator Oscar Nilsson is so fond of lowrider culture that he created a coloring book in homage to it. Big Body Caddys, Chevy Impalas, Buick Rivieras and other classics are all represented in this 64 page softcover published by Dokument Press. It’s perfect for car enthusiasts or those who don’t think coloring book choices should be limited to cuddly animals and fairy tale characters.
Maksim Aleshin has already hired a craftsman who’s agreed to peel him when he dies and make human skin bindings for two very limited edition books… but he’s only half-way through writing the damn thing. The 40-year-old author is hoping to get $100,000 in postmortem moneys, all willed to his daughter. She’s eight and thinks Dad’s “crazy.” Aw…
An Istanbul council wants a William S. Burroughs’s 1961 novel banned for “vulgarity,” “slang,” “a fragmented narrative,” “attitudes permissive to crime,” myths and “hurting people’s moral feelings.” Bill, you immortal badass.
A graffiti artist with far too many names to list is rereleasing a book that will enamor some and completely bore the shit out of others. Preview it here.
To complement his Street Art and Graffiti MoCA Extravaganza coming in April 2011, gone-west curator/critic Jeffrey Deitch is releasing a new book – Art in the Streets. It will feature a long chronology of graffiti and street art that his sort have figured out how to sell, from Jean-Michel Basquiat on, but do we really need another book on graffiti? Will it be on par with some of the movement’s cult classics or merely be a hefty gallery guide? On the book cover: TWIST’s Deitch Wall, appropriately.
The Diary of Anne Frank, Robert Greene’s rapper-approved Machiavellian manual The 48 Laws of Power and anything by Sylvia Plath – those are some con-popular books, a Boston prison librarian’s memoir reveals. Read more »
Here’s a travesty brought to light by The eXiled: Christopher Hitchens wrote an introduction to Ancient Gonzo Wisdom (a Hunter S. Thompson interview book) and shat on it. Read more »
The New Yorker staff scribbled up a list of book-inspired perfumes that will have the literate chortling contently. Great Expectations Splash has a hint of moldy old mansion and the Sex and the City Eau de Toilet is “an aged blend of vodka, vermouth, spermicide, and buttercream frosting, bottled in a flask. Slosh it on, ladies.” Suggestions? Read more »
The owner of the Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, Oregon is changing the store’s name to Tigress Books, because, no, they don’t know when the next rally will be, but here’s a schedule of this month’s Pagan meet ups. Read more »
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