<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Your FLESH mag &#187; Books</title> <atom:link href="http://yourfleshmag.com/category/books/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://yourfleshmag.com</link> <description>A periodical since 1981</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:31:09 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>IT&#8217;S SO EASY: AND OTHER LIES by Duff McKagan; Touchstone, 2011</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/its-so-easy-and-other-lies-by-duff-mckagan-touchstone-2011/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/its-so-easy-and-other-lies-by-duff-mckagan-touchstone-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:29:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Miller</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Axl Rose]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction in Rock and Roll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Duff McKagan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ed Quilen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Exile On Main Street]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guns N Roses]]></category> <category><![CDATA[It's So Easy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ray Charles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rolling Stones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Slash]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steve Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Substance Abuse in the Entertainment Industry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=6308</guid> <description><![CDATA[Veteran journalist Ed Quillen once pointed out that “Ray Charles did his most brilliant work during the year he was addicted to heroin” and that the magnificent Stone’s LP Exile on Main Street “has more great loud and dirty rock and roll on it than any dozen recordings by people who could pass blood tests.” [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/its-so-easy-and-other-lies-by-duff-mckagan-touchstone-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN: AN ORAL HISTORY OF GRUNGE by Mark Yarm; Crown Archetype, 2011</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/everybody-loves-our-town-an-oral-history-of-grunge-by-mark-yarm-crown-archetype-2011/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/everybody-loves-our-town-an-oral-history-of-grunge-by-mark-yarm-crown-archetype-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:48:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Miller</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[7 Year Bitch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alice In Chains]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Wood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bruce Pavitt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candlebox]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cat Butt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Courtney Love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crown Archetype]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ECW]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greg Prato]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grunge is Dead]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Heroin death and addiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jonathan Poneman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[L7]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Layne Staley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Crticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Arm]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Yarm]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Melvins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mother Love Bone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MTV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nirvana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pearl Jam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pixies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Seattle Sound]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Starbucks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stefanie Sargent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steve Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sub Pop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U-Men]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=6265</guid> <description><![CDATA[It was the age of needy validation in music, fueled by MTV and massive major label deals that sprung from the newfound oasis of money that was the CD. Seattle became ground zero for expense account excess from industry players, and eventually the town became part of the problem rather than part of the solution. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/everybody-loves-our-town-an-oral-history-of-grunge-by-mark-yarm-crown-archetype-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HÜSKER DÜ: THE STORY OF THE NOISE-POP PIONEERS WHO LAUNCHED MODERN ROCK by Andrew Earles; Voyageur Press, 2010</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/husker-du-the-story-of-the-noise-pop-pioneers-who-launched-modern-rock-by-andrew-earles-voyageur-press-2010/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/husker-du-the-story-of-the-noise-pop-pioneers-who-launched-modern-rock-by-andrew-earles-voyageur-press-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:14:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bruce Adams</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Earles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Flag]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bob Mould]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Discharge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grant Hart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Husker Du]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terveet Kadet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voyageur Press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=6109</guid> <description><![CDATA[There’s been a plentitude of reading opportunities for anybody interested in digging into Our Precious Hardcore Punk Rock Heritage recently.  Your browser is set to this url so you know the deal: the Touch and Go archives in book form, Why Be Something You’re Not, etc. Andrew Earles has made an invaluable contribution with this [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/husker-du-the-story-of-the-noise-pop-pioneers-who-launched-modern-rock-by-andrew-earles-voyageur-press-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CHEETAH CHROME: A DEAD BOY&#8217;S TALE FROM THE FRONT LINES OF PUNK ROCK by Cheetah Chrome; Voyageur Press, 2010</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/cheetah-chrome-a-dead-boys-tale-from-the-front-lines-of-punk-rock-by-cheetah-chrome-voyageur-press-2010/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/cheetah-chrome-a-dead-boys-tale-from-the-front-lines-of-punk-rock-by-cheetah-chrome-voyageur-press-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:18:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Miller</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anita Pallenberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Autobiography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CBGBS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cheetah Chrome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cleveland Punk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dead Boys]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hilly Krystal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Schaeffer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rocket From The Tombs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Seymour Stein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steve Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stiv Bators]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Warner Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=6059</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cheetah Chrome’s saga includes his many identities: a dumbass, a loser, a hooligan, a loveable lug, a rock hero, and finally, a family man. Or does he clumsily wrap all of those characters into one loveable punk? A Dead Boy’s Tale, Chrome’s humorous, anecdote-jammed autobiography, is also his self-deprecating journey through Cleveland’s flats into NYC’s [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/cheetah-chrome-a-dead-boys-tale-from-the-front-lines-of-punk-rock-by-cheetah-chrome-voyageur-press-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>I’M IN THE BAND: BACKSTAGE NOTES FROM THE CHICK IN WHITE ZOMBIE by Sean Yseult; Soft Skull Press, 2010</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/i%e2%80%99m-in-the-band-backstage-notes-from-the-chick-in-white-zombie-by-sean-yseult-soft-skull-press-2010/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/i%e2%80%99m-in-the-band-backstage-notes-from-the-chick-in-white-zombie-by-sean-yseult-soft-skull-press-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:45:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Miller</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anecdotes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beavis and Butthead]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caroline]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Danzig]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Geffen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[I'm In The Band: Backstage Notes From The Chick In White Zombie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marilyn Manson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Stipe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Name-Dropping]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sean Yseult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Soft Skull Press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Soul Crusher]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sounds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steve Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Xeroxed Flyers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=6028</guid> <description><![CDATA[Goddamn I loved Soul Crusher.  I bought it for the cover alone, this miasma of psychoglo paint and fleecy-headed rockers with hot Crayola lettering—thinking magenta?—and inside was wax worthy of anything coming forth at the time.  White Zombie was on the map, first releasing Crusher on its own and then getting picked up by Caroline. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/i%e2%80%99m-in-the-band-backstage-notes-from-the-chick-in-white-zombie-by-sean-yseult-soft-skull-press-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PUNCHING OUT: ONE YEAR IN A CLOSING AUTO PLANT by Paul Clemens; Doubleday, 2011</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/punching-out-one-year-in-a-closing-auto-plant-by-paul-clemens-doubleday-2011/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/punching-out-one-year-in-a-closing-auto-plant-by-paul-clemens-doubleday-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:42:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Miller</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arkansas Boys]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Budd Company]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Buy American]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dave Scarlin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Detroit Three]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eddie Ray Stanford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Factory Dismantling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticisim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Local 306]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Motor City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[One Year In A Closing Auto Plant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Clemens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Punching Out]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ray Dishman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rust Belt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steve Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Big Three]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wayne State University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=6020</guid> <description><![CDATA[In mid-January, TV funnyman Stephen Colbert joined an ages-old tradition with a shot at Detroit. “What if we turned Detroit into a bombing range?” Colbert pondered.  “Would anybody notice?” As one who has spent most of his life in these environs, thanks. Punching Out is a tale of a factory turned into…well, what looks like [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/punching-out-one-year-in-a-closing-auto-plant-by-paul-clemens-doubleday-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PUNK ROCK PRATTLE: Is Talk Cheap?</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/punk-rock-prattle-is-talk-cheap/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/punk-rock-prattle-is-talk-cheap/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:30:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Miller</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American Hardcore]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AMERICAN HARDCORE: A Tribal History (Second Edition)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barry Henssler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dave Stimson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Easy Action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Feral House]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jack Klugman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Brannon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Laughing Hyenas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Legs McNeil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Midwest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Negative Approach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pagans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Patti Smith]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Please Kill Me]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Punk Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quincy M.E.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Revelation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steve Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steven Blush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tesco Vee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Clubhouse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fix]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Freezer Theater]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Necros]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tony Rettman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Touch & Go magazine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WHY BE SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE NOT: DETROIT HARDCORE 1979-1985]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=5645</guid> <description><![CDATA[WHY BE SOMETHING THAT YOU&#8217;RE NOT: DETROIT HARDCORE 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman; Revelation, 2010 AMERICAN HARDCORE: A Tribal History (Second Edition) By Steven Blush; Feral House, 2010 To begin with, it&#8217;s hard to believe that the people who built the house of punk rock are part of history. Weren&#8217;t we ageless warriors who could defy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/punk-rock-prattle-is-talk-cheap/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SEX, STUPIDITY AND GREED: INSIDE THE AMERICAN MOVIE INDUSTRY By Ian Grey; Juno Books, 1997</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/sex-stupidity-and-greed-inside-the-american-movie-industry-by-ian-grey-juno-books-1997/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/sex-stupidity-and-greed-inside-the-american-movie-industry-by-ian-grey-juno-books-1997/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:12:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bo Pogue</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bo Pogue]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ian Grey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inside The American Movie Industry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex Stupidity and Greed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=5623</guid> <description><![CDATA[Former Hollywood insider Ian Grey turns a critical eye on his former stomping grounds in search of crass over-commercialism, clichés, unscrupulous practices, insipid scripts, an overall standard of homogenous, formulaic, unimaginative product and—Shazam!—he finds it! Along the way, Ian offers up some revealing, often hilarious tales of self-obsession in the movie industry. The conclusions he [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/sex-stupidity-and-greed-inside-the-american-movie-industry-by-ian-grey-juno-books-1997/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SONNY LISTON WAS A FRIEND OF MINE by Thom Jones; Little, Brown, Inc. 1999</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/sonny-liston-was-a-friend-of-mine-by-thom-jones-little-brown-inc-1999/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/sonny-liston-was-a-friend-of-mine-by-thom-jones-little-brown-inc-1999/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:45:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Miller</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Little Brown Inc.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steve Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thom Jones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=5619</guid> <description><![CDATA[A collection of pulpy tales, most of them dirty—as in the neighborhood tavern with a Rourke character as the bartender. Sonny Liston is a beautifully exercised piece about love and hate and dysfunction. The author’s veteran status also provides for some colorful Vietnam stories which are not written from a victim point of view as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/sonny-liston-was-a-friend-of-mine-by-thom-jones-little-brown-inc-1999/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>WILLEFORD by Don Herron; Dennis McMillan, 1997</title><link>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/willeford-by-don-herron-dennis-mcmillan-1997/</link> <comments>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/willeford-by-don-herron-dennis-mcmillan-1997/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:36:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Lord Ouch</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Actor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boxer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Burnt Orange Heresy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Willeford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cockfighter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dennis McMillan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Don Herron]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Henry Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lord Ouch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scholar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Soldier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your Flesh book review]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://yourfleshmag.com/?p=5615</guid> <description><![CDATA[In a letter to a friend sent shortly before his death in 1987 Charles Willeford wrote, “The plot really doesn’t matter that much, as long as you have one; the important thing is the characters.” Likewise, Don Herron’s study Willeford offers a collection of biographical anecdotes culled from Willeford’s published works and personal papers that [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://yourfleshmag.com/books/willeford-by-don-herron-dennis-mcmillan-1997/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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