Mexican Pulp Art

From the Collections of Bobbette Axelrod and Ted Frankel
Introduction 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.

The Ministry of Truth

Kim Jong Il’s North Korea

By 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 of Kim Jong Il, who writes the nation’s statistics and authors its film script.

Opium for the Masses

Harvesting Nature’s Best Pain Medication

Jim Hogshire

With Opium for the Masses as the guide, Americans can learn how to supplement their own medicine chest with natural pain medicine without costly and difficult trips to doctors hamstrung by pernicious laws to prescribe proper pain relief.

Orgasmatron

The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno

By Joe Petagno, Foreword by Lemmy Kilmister, Introduction by Steffan Chirazi

Orgasmatron: The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno goes where no art book has ever gone before.

Packing Inferno

The Unmaking of a Marine

Tyler E. Boudreau

“I don’t know another book on any subject, let alone on war, let alone on Iraq or the Corps, that combines such breathtaking candor and self-awareness with such impressive insight (and extremely good writing, as well). Riveting, engrossing, simply terrific, a page-turner.” — Daniel Ellsberg on Packing Inferno

Pills-A-Go-Go

A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History & Consumption

By Jim Hogshire

Here it is: a cultural study of pills. Not medicine per se nor health nor pharmacology—just pills, all pills, any pills—pills that get you stopped at the border, pills that associate you with the rich and famous, and pills that link you to skid row.

Poop Culture

How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product

By Dave Praeger
Foreword 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.

Porn & Pong

How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture

Damon Brown
Foreword by Jon M. Gibson

When the VCR first became commonly available, and the modern porn industry’s sales skyrocketed, Atari systems, with their phallic joysticks, also seized the American mind. In Porn and Pong, Playboy journalist Damon Brown reveals how these businesses have blossomed, intersected and affected our culture.

Prisoner of X

20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine

Allan MacDonell

During his tenure in the Hustler trenches, punk-rock dropout Allan MacDonell ascends from entry-level comma-catcher to editorial overlord of the unseemly offerings at Larry Flynt Publications. Here’s the inside story of running America’s most influential porn domain. “Prisoner of X is hours of guilty pleasure that pass like seconds. Here’s the unsafe, hook-up sex of memoir. You’ll need to indulge before the restraining orders pull this great book off of store shelves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Choke, and Haunted

The Revolution®

Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R.U. Sirius

Introduction by Andrei Codrescu

A Little Red Book for the New Millennium.