Kodachrome moments in the ‘Fire Island Pines,’ circa 1975-1983 Even if you aren’t a “boy of summer,” you might pine for more decadent times after paging through Tom Bianchi’s new “Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983” (Damiani, 212 pgs.). With an … Read More
Spring’s page-turners range from the real king of pop to the real king of the tennis courts, with some dinosaurs and sizzling meat in-between. 1. “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (Harper), by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield. The memoir of … Read More
New biography on the easy-riding raging bull arrives. Tom Folsom’s biography, Hopper: A Journey Into the American Dream, was feted this past Tuesday night at New York’s SoHo House, with an oddly special performance by No. 1 fan Molly Ringwald and … Read More
Bespoke bookbinders Thornwillow publish singular drink recipes in unforgettable libretto imprints. We’ll drink to that! This spring, be a gentleman in repose, by keeping in your wet bar several “neat” volumes of Manhattan-based stationer-bookmaker’s pocket-sized custom-designed booklets, featuring the recipes … Read More
The great ‘60s street-style photographer’s work showcased in the new William Klein: ABC book. This book is beautiful and gritty and sexy. A visual survey of William Klein’s career–with images shot in New York, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo, and Paris–there’s 196 … Read More
‘The Boudoir Bible’ guides you through the ‘Genital Gym’ and other bedtime activities, post V-Day and onward. Rizzoli enters the steamy world of Taschen with its new illustrated sex-guide book, The Boudoir Bible, by Betony Vernon, illustrated by François Berthoud, … Read More
This festive season, Belgraves is swapping pine needles for book pages. The stylish Belgravia hotel has collaborated with leading art book publisher TASCHEN to create an alternative Christmas tree – a bespoke TASCHEN Tree window installation. The TASCHEN Tree installation … Read More
New photo book reveals the true meaning of sexy-time come holiday time. We enjoyed Taschen’s The Big Butt Book, but for some steamy winter imagery that’s a shy more tasteful, Room 100 recommends The New Erotic Photography Vol. 2 (424 … Read More
Last night at Hotel Victor, soon to be Thompson Ocean Drive we threw a launch party to celebrate Ruvan Wijesooriya’s latest book titled LCD. The book of photography, created by Ruvan Wijesooriya, will be released on December 11th, 2012. LCD chronicles the existence of … Read More
Don’t be a ‘phony.” Raise high the roof-beams with singular looks inspired by J.D. Salinger’s most famous of characters. Hardly a clothes hound himself–academic prep he was–J.D. Salinger, in real life and in fiction, railed a great deal about the … Read More
New photo tome on the history of that classic American luxury auto comes in limited edition black rubber slipcase. Vah-vah-vah-voom! Here’s what publishers Assouline has to say about it: “In celebration of 110 years of one of the most iconic … Read More
Room 100’s book-of-the-month club pick. Phaidon’s spectacular new photo-coffee table book ‘The Art Book’ features 600 works of art, photographed distinctly. The obvious will stop being so when you roll through history here. It’s the autumn tome to slap down … Read More
A new non-fiction thriller on the plight of Sea World’s performing orcas will make you want to stay out of the water parks. Our fish tale pick of late summer’s beach reads. Author David Kirby’s “Death at Sea World” (St. … Read More
The success of Keith Richards’ tell-all has spawned a mother-load of other snaggletooth musician’s memoirs. At least that’s how we see it. Or maybe they’re all fearing that time isn’t on their sides anymore, and they better find a co-ghost-writer … Read More
