Michaelangelo Matos Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year out now from Hachette Books. Newsletter on DJ sets: https://t.co/8IrY4XadoH he/him

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Sarah Schulman
@biketrouble Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York by Sarah Schulman
Hardcover, 2021
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
@nelsongeorge on Dylan the pulp fiction acolyte has my mind going like no one else's Philosophy of Modern Song review. https://t.co/L6iLa1Ao5P
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cary Grant: A Biography
Marc Eliot
from Marc Eliot's Nicholson: A Biography (2013) https://t.co/a4HZKKRWjt
Paperback, 2005
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hollywood Rock: A Guide to Rock 'n' Roll in the Movies
Marshall Crenshaw
One of many reasons to treasure the Marshall Crenshaw-edited film guide Hollywood Rock: this review of something so obviously misbegotten that I'm kinda dying to see it. https://t.co/xabc8uaOOn
Paperback, 2014
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jazz: Essential Listening
Scott Deveaux
My sister asked for a jazz primer and I sent her directly to this playlist made from Gary Giddins' arbitrary road map (49/57 tracks). And lo and behold, I am hooked yet again. It's so good! https://t.co/JOAXhXfy49
Paperback, 2019
$146.00$121.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Powers That Be
David Halberstam
@DigitalHistory_ David Halberstam, The Powers That Be, if you want to go mega. Marc Weingarten, The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight, for profiles of the New Journalists
Paperback, 2000
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hollywood: The Oral History
Jeanine Basinger
“PETER BOGDANOVICH: Charlie Chaplin said, “Just when we were getting it right, it was over.” Excerpt From Hollywood: The Oral History Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson https://t.co/GXElJKzZuj This material may be protected by copyright.
Paperback, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Menergy: San Francisco's Gay Disco Sound
Louis Niebur
@RobLives4Love @craigspoplife I'm in the middle of reading Menergy by Louis Niebur, much of which is _about_ Sylvester, and I wouldn't have guessed.
Paperback, 2022
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
Joel Selvin
@CharlesLHughes2 I do wish he'd pronounced Joel Selvin's name right--not "Silver"--but he's right about the Altamont book, too. It's great.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nicholson: A Biography
Marc Eliot
from Marc Eliot's Nicholson: A Biography (2013) https://t.co/a4HZKKRWjt
Paperback, 2014
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book