Biographies
Two Upcoming Mac Miller Books Are Mired in Controversy
The dispute prompts the question: who gets to tell artists’ stories after they die?
Hellbent: A Conversation with New Order's Peter Hook
We sit down with New Order and Joy Division bassist to talk sex, drugs, money, and abuse in the wild ride that is his new book, 'Substance.'
You Can't Take the Boy Out of the Replacements: An Interview with the Band's Biographer Bob Mehr
'Trouble Boys' is a new book chronicling the legendary band's influential career.
'Becoming Richard Pryor' Is a Nuanced Biography of a Comedy Icon Who Once Lit Himself on Fire
We talked with author Scott Saul about how the legendary stand-up comic became who he was, and how his comedy was the opposite of Bill Cosby's.
Phil Hartman's Mr. Potato Head Blues
Mike Thomas's new book, You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman, tells the whole of Hartman's story, from the average-looking face that made his career to the bizarre murder that cut it short.
John Cage Was a Gamer
Cage, a musician, writer, visual artist, and performer, wasn't the obsessive Steam achievement-unlocking type of gamer—especially since he died in 1992—but he had all the traits.