America has lost its moral authority to huge corporate interests, say Secession movement leaders. This remarkable book shows how a seemingly wild political idea continues to grow and create debate on our unsustainable, ungovernable and unfixable empire. From Kirkpatrick Sale’s introduction: “Secession may seem like an outlandish idea at first, but when considered forthrightly and [...]
Secession
How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire
Thomas H. NaylorIntroduction by Kirkpatrick Sale
Twilight of the Machines
John Zerzan
“The crisis deepens. Everyday life is plundered as much as the physical environment. Our predicament points us toward a solution. The voluntary abandonment of the industrial mode of existence is not self-renunciation, but a healing return.” — from Twilight of the Machines The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his [...]
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Revised Edition
Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky and Sylvia Wallace
The Wallace family revisit their classic historical romp, and rework and update it with acerbic behind-the-scenes entries on Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain, Anna Nicole Smith, Malcolm X, Jim Morrison and others who have impacted our times. The Wallace family is the famous publishing phenomenon responsible for many bestsellers, including The Book of Lists and The [...]
The Secret King
The Myth and Reality of Nazi Occultism Revised and Expanded Edition
Stephen E. Flowers and Michael Moynihan
What role did the occult really play in the Third Reich? Sinister tales circulate about the occult roots of Nazi Germany, but little documentation has ever been uncovered — until now. The Secret King reveals the true story of Heinrich Himmler’s “Rasputin,” the magus Karl Maria Wiligut, commissioned by Himmler to write private reports on runes [...]
Hollywood’s Hellfire Club
The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and “The Bundy Drive Boys”
Gregory William Mank with Charles Heard and Bill Nelson
They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mama’s boy, and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts. They were [...]
Tales of Times Square
Expanded Edition
Josh Alan Friedman
This classic account of the ultra-sleazy, pre-Disneyfied era of Times Square is now the subject of a documentary film of the same name to be theatrically released this year. With this editionTales returns to print with seven new chapters. “Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes [...]
The Ministry of Truth
Kim Jong Il’s North Korea
Christian Kracht, Eva Munz, Lukas Nikol
Kim Jong Il’s People’s Republic of North Korea is a gigantic installation, a simulation, a play. Eva Munz, Christian Kracht and Lukas Nikol traveled to this land to take pictures of a country from which there are no pictures. What they show in The Ministry of Truth is a window view of the gigantic 3D production [...]
Jim Goad’s Gigantic Book of Sex
Jim Goad
Merely owning this book will make you sexier. This book will teach you how to have thunderous, crashing orgasms, the kind you’d never learn to have without it. Don’t you want to be more sensuous? Don’t you want members of the opposite sex to like you? Realize that you will be inadequate both as a [...]
Poop Culture
How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product
Dave PraegerForeword by Paul Provenza
Is “The Origin of Feces” a Darwinian concern? Perhaps not, but it is the title to the preface of this tongue-in-cheek and unexpectedly revealing exploration of human behavior by the webmaster behind the popular PoopReport.com. This book is not a history of poop, but a study of today. Its goal is to understand how poop affects [...]
Mexican Pulp Art
From the Collections of Bobbette Axelrod and Ted FrankelIntroduction by Maria Cristina Tavera
The lurid cover art of Mexican pulp novels is a pop culture revelation. Never before seen in an English or even Spanish-language collection are the often surreal and psychedelic images of extraterrestrials, robots, dinosaurs, dastardly killers, Zorro, Santo, and many other icons from stories involving suspense, mystery, romance and the supernatural. Mexican Pulp Art features [...]
