Books: Other
Other books of interest
Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)The FiftiesWomen of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th An...
by William S. Burroughs
$10.20
Burroughs' quasi-noir novel of 1940s New York's bohemian drug culture.
The Fifties
by David Halberstam
$12.21
If it's Halberstam, it's a comprehensive tome. A good overview of a decade much more complex than it's usually portrayed.
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, ...
$13.46
Profiles, photos, and original writings of 40 women who helped shape a cultural revolution.
Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold WarAdvertisements for MyselfMore than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Co...
by Woody Haut
$15.99
Haut positions the pulp crime writers of the 1940s, 50s and 60s as unconscious, and sometimes quite conscious, social and poli...
Advertisements for Myself
by Norman Mailer
$21.79
Essays, short stories, criticism, abandoned novels. Proceed with caution. As a cultural and intellectual document of the 1950s...
More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
by James Naremore

Excellent study of noir films by an avid jazz fan and Indiana University professor.
Art Chronicles: 1954-1966Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
Art Chronicles: 1954-1966
by Frank O'Hara
$11.21
Musings from a man better known for his poetry, but whose day job was curating for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the...
by Gerald Nachman