Miss Misery

10 best books like Miss Misery (Andy Greenwald): Shakespeare On Love, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, Better Than Running at Night, The Big Shuffle, Pete's Dragon (Little Golden Book), Getting Over Jack Wagner, Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky, A Worldly Country, How the Mistakes Were Made

AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0735201749
Shakespeare on Love is a romantic collection of poems and quotes selected from the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare. Fine art, and book illustrations from Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, Richard Dadd, Henry Fuseli, Sir John Everett Millais, William Blake, Noel Paton, and William Holman...
AuthorJen Sincero
ISBN0743453913
At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:
1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.
2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.
3) Hang out in...
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
AuthorDavid N. Meyer
ISBN0375505709
Gram Parsons lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful corpse–a corpse his friends stole, took to Joshua Tree National Monument, and set afire in its coffin. The theft and burning of his body marked the end of Gram Parsons’ life and the beginning of the Gram Parsons legend.

As a singer...
AuthorHillary Frank
ISBN0618250735
Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then...
AuthorLaura Pedersen
ISBN0345479564
“We’re approaching Cat in the Hat level chaos and no one’s even had breakfast yet.”

When the death of her father leaves her mother bereft and incapacitated, card shark Hallie Palmer returns home from college to raise Hallie’s eight younger siblings. Hallie’s older brother has...
Pete's Dragon (Little Golden Book)
AuthorWalt Disney Company
ISBN0307600564
Awalnya mengira seperti kisah how to train your dragon, ternyata bedaaaa. Kisah Pete yang bertemu naga hijau yang dia beri nama Elliot ini beneran bikin saya trenyuh, alih alih sampai mewek. Haha.
Ini buku anak anak yang cukup membuat saya terkesan. Kisahnya yang simple tapi ngasih anak anak sebagai...
AuthorElise Juska
ISBN0743464672
Where are all the real rock stars?
Eliza is looking to date a rock star -- though she uses the term loosely. None of her boyfriends have been famous. Most have unbearable habits and overbearing mothers. A few only played show tunes. Still, they're intense. Pierced. Tragically stubbled. With a...
Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky
AuthorVladimir Mayakovsky
ISBN0374281351
From the time his first, futurist poems were published in 1912 until his suicide at the age of thirty-six, Vladimir Mayakovsky made theatrical appearances in his written work and perfected an iconoclastic voice James Schuyler called "the intimate yell." As the poet laureate of the Russian Revolution,...
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0061173835
Thrill of a Romance

It's different when you have hiccups.
Everything is—so many glad hands competing
for your attention, a scarf, a puff of soot,
or just a blast of silence from a radio.
What is it? That's for you to learn
to your dismay when, at the end of a long queue
in...
How the Mistakes Were Made
AuthorTyler Mcmahon
ISBN0312658540
Laura Loss came of age in the hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s. The jailbait bass player in her brother Anthony’s band, she grew up traveling the country, playing her heart out in a tight network of show venues to crowds soaked in blood and sweat. The band became notorious, the stars of a shadow music...
AuthorJanine M. Benyus
ISBN1579129684
Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures? from the Adélie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant panda?in this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book.



In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside...
AuthorIrvine Welsh
ISBN0224050036
Ended up thinking in Scottish for a week afterwards, with the way the books were written. I think that in itself was an interesting method of really allowing a reader to get into the head of the protagonist (or antagonist, in the case of Maribou). Trainspotting was done brilliantly by the film, and I feel...
Too Much, Too Late
AuthorMarc Spitz
ISBN1400082935
I remember reading articles by Marc Spitz in Spin Magazine in the nineties and always thought he was an entertaining writer. Overall, this book was a fun, fast read, good for people who have been in bands, dated people in bands, or just followed indie/alternative/whatever music for a long time. The narrator,...
Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star
AuthorIan Hunter
ISBN1897783094
I read Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star by Ian Hunter back in the 1970s however all I could remember was that I'd enjoyed it. In the intervening years its reputation has grown. Q Magazine reckon it "may well be the best rock book ever" and whilst I think that might be overstating it a bit, it's certainly a brilliant...
A Model Summer
AuthorPaulina Porizkova
ISBN1401303269
An incisive, beautifully written first novel by a former supermodel that explores the glamorous and gritty world she inhabited Only a handful of women in the world have experienced what Paulina Porizkova has--being whisked away to model in Paris while still a teenager, reaching the pinnacle of the...
40 Watts from Nowhere : A Journey into Pirate Radio
AuthorSue Carpenter
ISBN0743229886
When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start her own radio station, everyone laughed. Getting on the air (legitimately) in San Francisco was a multimillion-dollar ambition. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive techies and pirate-radio gurus, Sue built her first...
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen
AuthorErik Jensen
Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.

In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. A publisher wanted it, Cullen said. He was sick and ready to talk. Everything would be on the record.

What...
The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture
AuthorRichard DeGrandpre
ISBN0822338815
America had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substances that are widely demonized today. Heroin was marketed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and marijuana was available...
20 Jazz Funk Greats
AuthorDrew Daniel
ISBN0826427936
In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel (of the experimental band Matmos) creates through both his own insights and exclusive interviews with the band an exploded view of the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, shot through with a sequence of thematic entries on key concepts,...
New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century
AuthorJed Perl
ISBN1400041317
A fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics.
"New Art City "takes us from the solitude of the artist's studio to the uproarious bars where artists gathered, from the ramshackle bohemian...
My Ear at His Heart
AuthorHanif Kureishi
ISBN0571224040
'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' Esquire

'This is an ambitious book. Kureshi - free-associating with what feels like unmitigated honesty - successfully conveys the impression...
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
AuthorSteve Weinberg
ISBN0393049353
Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), a fearless and ambitious reporter...
A Dull Roar: What I Did on My Summer Deracination 2006
AuthorHenry Rollins
ISBN1880985799
A Dull Roar chronicles a tumultuous five-month period in Henry Rollins’ life. During April through September 2006, he reunited with the Rollins Band, prepared for and toured North America with them, wrapped up the second season of the The Henry Rollins Show, filmed Wrong Turn 2, and slaved over his...
Tripping : An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures
AuthorCharles Hayes
ISBN0140195742
Taking a balanced, objective approach, the book depicts a broad spectrum of altered states, from the sublime to the terrifying. Included are fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life. Supplemental essays...
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