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An American journalist who now lives in New Zealand, Nik Dirga writes whenever the mood strikes him about books, music, movies, pop culture and more.
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Haruki Murakami puts fiction aside for a breezy memoir about his great passion for running.
One of the shining lights of 'alt-country' music gets an overdue retrospective.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds revisit their dark and brooding 1984 debut.
The angriest man on earth or one of our great writers? Meet Harlan Ellison in this great documentary.
Hard-rocking but sincere, The Hold Steady release their first live album.
Forgotten comic book heroes of the 1930s and 1940s are revisited in this great sampler
Some of the best alternative rock of the late 1980s is cleaned up with bonus tracks in the second half of the Replacements reissues program.
The third collection of James Kochalka's daily diary cartoon continues a winning mix of humor and honesty about living your life.
The spunky underdogs of alt-country return from hiatus with two new albums of good-time rock 'n' roll.
Superheroes jump off the comics page and into prose in this entertaining first novel.
