DescriptionNancy Franklin joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1978 as a typist, and was subsequently a fact checker and a nonfiction editor. Since 1989, she has contributed Talk of the Town pieces, essays, Profiles, and humor pieces to the magazine. From 199…
DescriptionFor decades, the United States has been the dominant exporter of pop culture. In the 21st century, it has a powerful new competitor: Japan. Young people across the globe watch anime, read manga comic books from right to left, listen to J-pop, and play with Japanese toys and video games. What's so cool about Japan? Will the ancient nation rise again, this time as the world's leading exporter of fantasy? An entertaining journey, from Tokyo to middle America. Produced in collaboration with the center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
DescriptionIn The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard gracefully weaves biblical teaching, popular culture, science, scholarship, and spiritual practice into a tour de force that shows the necessity of profound change in how we view our lives and faith. In an era in which many Christians consider Jesus a beloved but remote savior, Willard argues compellingly for the relevance of God to every aspect of our existence. Masterfully capturing the central insights of Christ's teachings in a fresh way for today's seekers, he helps us to explore a revolutionary way to experience God by knowing him as an essential part of the here and now, rather than only as part of the hereafter.
DescriptionWhere did popular culture come from? How does it influence Americans in general and Christians in particular? Myers provides fascinating answers to these questions. He sees pop culture as a culutre of diversion, preventing people from asking questions about their origin and destiny and about the meaning of life. This culture is one of novelty and instant gratification, and it offers the very appealing illusion that you are the master of your own fate.
DescriptionFrom 1934 to 1954, Bing Crosby utterly dominated American entertainment. Nobody has ever had as many hit records, and Crosby was the number one movie star for five years in a row. The rise of Bing Crosby was the rise of American popular culture itself.
DescriptionIn a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces", Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession, in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink…
DescriptionFrom the best-selling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live ... Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts: THINGS THAT ARE TRUE Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Val Kilmer, McDonalds, '70s rock band nostalgia cruises. With new introductions and asides. THINGS THAT MIGHT BE TRUE Opinions and theories on everything from monogamy to guilt, and (of course) Advancement, with new hypothetical questions and asides. SOMETHING THAT ISN'T TRUE AT ALL This is new fiction. There's an introduction, but no asides. Well, there's an aside in the introduction, but none in the story.
DescriptionThe sequel to Chili Palmer's hit movie Get Leo tanked, and now Chili's itching for a comeback. So when a power-lunch with record label executive and former associate Tommy Athens ends in a mob hit, he soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with…
DescriptionFrom the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City, the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo, comes Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, the first book in…
