In Adam Wilson's Flatscreen (Harper Perennial), TV, drugs and suburban malaise are darkly, sometimes uproariously melded to create a moody coming-of-age novel.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/21/12

Ricky Powell has roots in the streets. Yet this old-school West Village native has become an international force, shooting celebrities with a gritty, honest eye as well as training his lens on the genuine characters who inhabit sidewalks from New York to Tokyo.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/16/12

In Scotty Bower's memoir Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars (Grove/Atlantic), the 89 year-old gloriously and honestly recounts his many debaucherous memories to Lionel Friedberg, who has helped arrange them into a stunning text.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/15/12

In Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift (Knopf), the legendary supernatural scribe reimagines the werewolf, and what happens when one young journalist's inner animal is unleashed.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/14/12

What we lose can shape our lives. For Claire Bidwell Smith, her parents' deaths, both from cancers, was both a loss that would inform how she made her own decisions.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/13/12

Everybody longs for home. K'naan, originally from Somalia, has lived in the States for over 20 years, but his music is still filled with melancholy.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/30/12

Vacations don't always involve physical travel. In Trinie Dalton's Baby Geisha (Two Dollar Radio), the author plays with fantasy and escape in trippy, travelogue-style short stories that stray from the jungles of Guatemala to Greek Islands.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/13/12

Everyone is nostalgic for the '90s. Yet Mike Doughty's trip down memory lane, The Book of Drugs (Da Capo), is not all fine flannel and gorgeous grunge.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/11/12