No More Dirty Looks
Siobhan O'Connor & Alexandra Spunt
Da Capo Lifelong Books
10/10
Finally, finally, finally- the book I have been waiting for! I hav... Read More...
Just Kids
Patti Smith
HarperCollins Publishers
9/10
New York City, summer, 1969. A hot, sweltering mess full of sweat and musk and bodies colliding agains... Read More...
Serious As Dog Dirt
Bam Margera
MTV Books
5/10
Oh, good. Offensiveness, stupid stunts, DiCo, and the usual bits that you would attribute to the Jackass st... Read More...
Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith
Titan Books
6 of 10
I have a long-harbored affection for Kevin Smith. His Clerks movies are two of my all-time favorite ... Read More...
C. Albritton Taylor, Donovan Leitch, Jim Rugg
One Model Nation
Image Comics
6/10
It’s rare for us here at Racket to review a graphic novel, let alone admi... Read More...
Max Brooks & Ibraim Roberson
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
Three Rivers Press
9/10
Max Brooks rules pretty good. If you're not hip to th... Read More...
Grunge
Photos by Michael Lavine, Text by Thurston Moore
Abrams Image
7/10
At 27, I am old enough to have owned a Nirvana album while Kurt Cobain was still... Read More...
Ballads of Suburbia
Stephanie Kuehnert
MTV Books
8/10
While on the whole, I enjoyed my time in high school, I do NOT miss high school. Kuehnert’s sec... Read More...
Lenore - Noogies
Roman Dirge
Titan Books
9/10
With the percentage of his body covered by tattoos firmly in the double digits, Roman Dirge is the G that ... Read More...
Ed. Julia Wertz
I Saw You
Three Rivers Press
7/10
Ever wanted to know what it’s like to be one of the thousands of Craigslist posters who pine for lost ... Read More...
Vera Ramone King
Poisoned Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone (The Ramones Years)
Phoenix Books
6/10
Vera Ramone King’s Poisoned Heart recounts the story of t... Read More...
Mohsin Hamid
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Harcourt, Inc.
8/10
Some of you who have read the interview with Rachel Taylor Brown may have picked up on a ref... Read More...
The Pocket Wine Encyclopedia
Eds. Danielle Daggett, Fiona Doig, Alan Edwards, Kate Etherington, Mary Halbmeyer
Barnes and Noble
8/10
It’s no secret that eve... Read More...
Japanese Goth
Tiffany Godoy & Ivan Vartanian
Universe Publishing
4/10
What I expected to be a history of Japanese Goth culture was simply a picture book. ... Read More...
The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles
Edited by Jeff Martin
Soft Skull Press
9/10
As I have been a retail employee for the last decade, I r... Read More...
