November 20, 2009
New Arrivals · Popular Culture
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Inventory : 16 films featuring manic pixie dream girls, 10 great songs nearly ruined by saxophone, and 100 more obsessively specific pop-culture lists
November 19, 2009
New York : Scribner, 2009.
xiii, 233, [5] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Based on the popular weekly feature in the A.V. Club, "The Onion's" beloved arts and entertainment guide, this quirky, detailed list is peppered with challenging opinions and fascinating facts to delight pop culture enthusiasts.
Includes index.
Eating the dinosaur
October 19, 2009
Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-
New York : Scribner, 2009.
vii, 245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
The bestselling author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" returns with an all-original nonfiction collection of questions and answers about pop culture, sports, and the meaning of reality.
Includes index.
What the dog saw and other adventure stories
October 15, 2009
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
New York : Little, Brown and Company, c2009.
xv, 410 p. ; 21 cm.
Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from "The New Yorker" in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias, " and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
Previously published in the New Yorker.
Morbid curiosity cures the blues : true stories of the unsavory, unwise, unorthodox, and unusual
October 13, 2009
New York : Scribner, 2009.
xxii, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Featuring stories culled from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity," this highly-original anthology includes true tales of the unsavory, unwise, unorthodox, and unusual.
Canyon of dreams : the magic and the music of Laurel Canyon
October 7, 2009
Kubernik, Harvey, 1951-
New York : Sterling, c2009.
xvi, 368 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Laurel Canyon has been home to some of the biggest names in music: from Sonny and Cher to the members of Guns N' Roses. Kubernik presents this lavishly illustrated insider's look at 80 years of music and culture in the Canyon.
Includes index.
Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression
September 17, 2009
Dickstein, Morris.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
xxiii, 598 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.
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