Daniel Nester’s new book, How to Be Inappropriate, is an interesting, mostly humorous look at people’s overly polite and politically correct attitudes. We talk with him about putting it together, farts, mooning, and Robot Gene Simmons.

Eugene Rubin’s memoir Headlock: Chronicles of a Psychiatrist’s Son explores teenage angst in 1970s New York City as framed by the powerful hold of his celebrated psychiatrist/author father. Rubin explores the finer points of male adolescence while breaking down each anecdote in a way that only a psychiatrist can.

“If I were selling, I would, as they say in the Match.com ads, clean up good. Shopping for a house is like dating, minus, unfortunately, the cocktails and sex.”
The following is an excerpt from Gimme Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams. Read Larry Smith’s interview with Williams here.
A Tomb With a View
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