As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wiv...

Telegraph Avenue

On the shady side of LA in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot. So when Saul Lynx needs a missing woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work.  Elizabeth Eady - ‘Black Betty’ - is as dark as midn...

Easy Rawlins: Black Betty (BBC Radio Crimes)

This definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan, features decades of unpublished interviews and unparalleled access to members of the group and their associates. This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang...

From the Streets of Shaolin

Over the last few centuries, magic has developed a bad reputation - thanks to the unsavory tactics of shady practitioners and to a successful propaganda campaign on the part of religion and science, which denigrated magic as backward, irrational, and...

Magic

In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos.  A star-s...

Letters of Note: Art

In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror.  A star-studded ...

Letters of Note: War

A splendid new volume of missives about art, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections. Vincent Van Gogh curses the stare of the blank canvas. Salvador Dali contemplates mailing a piece of his "lobster-colored pajamas" to Federi...

From Napoléon Bonaparte and Frida Kahlo to Nelson Mandela and Ayn Rand, glimpse the ardors of artists, painters, writers, and more in this touching volume of beautiful missives, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections.  Beetho...

Letters of Note: Love

Brought to you by Penguin.   Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and magic. Over the last few centuries, magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe and that the universe responds ...

The History of Magic

In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and to mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child.  A star-studded cast of readers br...

Letters of Note: Mothers

In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. Wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating, it will delight music lovers of all stripes.  A sta...

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