David Roscoe Hickey

25 Women: Essays on Their Art

Newsweek calls him “exhilarating and deeply engaging.” Time Out New York calls him “smart, provocative, and a great writer.” Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him “My hero.” There’s no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey—and a new book of his writing is an event. 25 Women will...

War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict*

* (in which the author explains why he no longer readsThe New York Times)Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from TheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe “paper of record,”by way of pretty, heroic, ...

Open Air Bindery

David Hickey’s second collection builds upon the myriad strengths of his first. In a specimen book of songs, stories, and covenants, Hickey’s subjects range from art and astronomy to snowflakes and suburbia. These poems "take their time / Covering the roadside trees in forms of their careful willing...

Whitman (Images of America)

Most commonly known as the home of the world-famous Toll House cookie, Whitman has a rich history that goes well beyond the cookie jar. Centrally located between Boston and Cape Cod, the town played a significant role in the formative years of the country. Early industries included various mills, fo...

The Babe in Red Stockings: An in Depth Chronicle of Babe Ruth with the Boston Red Sox, 1914-1919

Although certainly not ignored, his beginnings in major league baseball -- five plus seasons with the Boston Red Sox -- tend to be somewhat glossed over. The extent of Ruth's accomplishments on the field with Boston, as well as his enormous popularity of that period, have never been fully appreciate...

Todd Eberle: Empire of Space

Contrasting ultramodernist photographs taken over a thirty-year period constitute the first book by one of the most celebrated photographers working today. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1963, and first coming into prominence in the early 1990s with his iconic photographs of Donald Judd’s works and arc...

Fenway Park (Images of America)

Five days after the sinking of the Titanic, Boston's Fenway Park held its grand opening. Since that day, millions have witnessed the Red Sox play baseball. Their "Royal Rooters" evolved into the "Fenway Faithful" and are now commonly referred to as "Red Sox Nation." Nine World Series have been stage...

Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they depic...

Whitman

Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone

Earth and Environments Through Time: A Laboratory Manual in Historical Geology