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Neal Pollack made a name for himself as a brash, occasionally annoying hipster writer, hanging with the likes of Dave Eggers and wreaking havoc on book tours.

“I need a war. Any war will do,” author Axe says to an editor boss midway through this illustrated memoir from NAL Trade.

Sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll are all well represented in Guns N’ Roses’ drummer Adler’s memoir, along with almost every detail of life on tour.

A new book uses the hit show Mad Men as a jumping-off point for a dazzling pop-culture history of the 1960s.

How did Facebook get so ubiquitous that to not be a member can be “tantamount to self-ostracism”? Kirkpatrick, with cooperation from company founder Mark Zuckerberg, has the answer.

For this riveting account from Twelve books, Junger made five trips to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, where he was embedded for weeks at a time with the men of Second Platoon, Battle Company.

A new photo book skewers bohemian wannabes from coast to coast.

This Harper Perennial collection by an editor at The New Yorker is a slim, powerful volume of 14 tales that immediately absorb your attention with their intimacy.

Many baseball enthusiasts are gifted with a head for statistics, or a powerful memory of the game’s history, or a knack for analyzing a team’s needs.

Porn legend Vanessa Del Rio gets her due with a gorgeous, high-quality art book packaged with a 140-minute documentary on DVD.

A new coffee-table book of essays and candid photos shows porn stars doing everything—except their day jobs.

A new volume from the late, lamented dirty old man, Charles Bukowski.

Inside-baseball types are not going to learn anything new here, but they will be entertained by this collection of funny, intelligent essays from Villard, and they’ll recognize a kindred spirit in Span, who briefly covered the New York baseball beat for The Village Voice.

The Ask By Sam Lipsyte With the same dark humor he brought to Home Land, Lipsyte sketches a downon-his-luck young father, Milo, who’s been tapped to reel in a big donor (aka an “ask”) who’s also a friend by the university that used to employ him. With less emph asis on plot than on loony characters and [...]

A new memoir looks back with unflinching honesty and keen insight on one woman’s life as a dominatrix.