The ‘L.A. Confidential’ author is back with ‘The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women.’ We’re scared. In his memoir “My Dark Places,” the author of “The Black Dahlia” and L.A.’s resident natty curmudgeon, provided readers a spooky look in the … Read More
Windy City chefs, this is your wake-up call. The famed Michelin Guide to the world’s best restaurants has announced plans to publish a 2011 Chicago edition come November, a big boost to the underrated culinary scene in the city that’s … Read More
Chuck Close and Julian Schnabel put their enduring images to page. It’s a cracking good summer for art books, with two new monographs devoted to the great Chuck Close and a third to an overlooked facet of larger-than-lifer Julian Schnabel’s … Read More
Here comes ‘True Prep,’ the follow-up to that ’80s publishing artifact. Remember 1983? Us neither. But that’s the year the original “Official Preppy Handbook” was published, kicking off a pop culture phenomenon and opening the J.C. Penney shoppers of the … Read More
The Spanish satellite of that over-sized glossy shows us Yankees how it’s done. A photo teaser. Spain’s most beautiful models bare their charms buried inside V Magazine’s new “Sexy Body” issue, which comes with limited edition scratch-off covers. Shot by … Read More
J. Crew brings back the original preppy handbook. “Take Ivy,” with photos by T. Hayashida, was released way back in 1965 (in Japanese).Boasting a huge cult following, original editions sell for thousands of dollars on eBay. For the re-launch of … Read More
In time for the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis’s legendary album Bitches Brew, SkiraRizzoli is publishing We Want Miles: Miles Davis vs. Jazz. The book features personal essays and reflections from the jazz great’s longtime friends and collaborators, along with photographs from live … Read More
New Book Shows Creative Geniuses in Their Own Little Corners For artists and designers, a home is more than just a place to hang your fedora – it’s also a “canvas on which they can project themselves, a testing ground … Read More
New Stones Book Features First Views of Vintage Images Turning up unpublished images of the world’s most famous rock band is no easy task, but that’s what Mark Hayward has done for his cool new book The Rolling Stones: On … Read More
New Helmut Newton reissue exhibits why we first fell for him and his “White Women.” In 1976 Helmut Newton published his first book, White Women, which forever established him on the cutting edge of cool eroticism. Now for the 90th … Read More
Gary Indiana Puts the Lit-Lid on Warhol’s Can Unveiled at Andy Warhol’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in 1962, the artist’s now legendary Campbell’s soup can paintings shocked the art world and kick-started the Pop Art movement in America. … Read More
Inside the Rooms of Greatest Hotels in America The luxe Overnight Sensations: Hotels for the Discerning Traveler series from Chronicle Books ($100) highlights the most exquisite accommodations on the planet. So it comes as no surprise-to us, at least–that Gild Hall, … Read More
New Special Edition, Plus Latest Bret Easton Ellis Novel, Prods Us To Look Back On The Year 1985. As weird as it may seem, Bret Easton Ellis’s breakthrough novel about non-parented L.A. nihilists and a new Lost Generation-doing blow and … Read More
