Sweet Pickles Books
Hey, guess what! We’re giving away 5 copies of I Want My MTV. Right the fuck now!
The First 5 people to email imremembering@gmail.com will get a book. You must put I WANT MY MTV in the subject line to be eligible.
Only winners will be notified. Good luck!
This wonderful oral history of the golden era of MTV is out today, and I suggest you buy it. Pitchfork has an excerpt on its front page today. If you’re around tonight, the authors are doing a little forum/Q&A thing at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble at 7pm with me, DMC and Ed Lover, along with whichever of the early execs decides to drop in. It should be interesting, but I’ll be honest: it will definitely be less sexy and drugsy than much of the goings-on in the book.
Anyway. Get your copy here and say goodbye to your weekend.
VHS: Absurd, Odd, and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era is a brand new book from the guys behind the always hilarious Found Footage Festival. I have one copy to give away. I secretly want to keep it for myself but I’m super selfless so here we go!
The first person to email imremembering@gmail.com will get a book. You must put VHS in the subject line of the email to be eligible.
Only winners will be notified. Good luck!
The Jedi Path is one of those books I thought you guys might like. Guess what? The author Daniel Wallace and his publisher Chronicle Books agree and were cool enough to offer a few copies for a giveaway.
The first 3 people to email imremembering@gmail.com will get a book. You must put JEDI PATH in the subject line of the email to be eligible.
Only winners will be notified. Good luck!
When I heard about John Ross Bowie’s new book Heathers on Julie Klausner’s podcast “How Was Your Week” I got so excited. It’s great. And I want you to have a copy.
The first 5 people to email imremembering@gmail.com will get a copy of Heathers. You must put MYRIAD in the subject line of your email to be eligible.
Only the winners will be notified. Good luck!
The lovely smurfologist Matt Murry has a beautiful new book out called The World of Smurfs.
The first person to email imremembering@gmail.com will get a copy of the book. You must put SMURFS in the subject line to be eligible.
Only the winner will be notified. Good luck!
Some of you will def appreciate this. Swing by the gallery for some serious nostalgery!
via jessbennett:
Oh, Sweet Valley, you’re back, and I love you, even if I’ve seriously outgrown you. And since I tried my very best to (unsuccessfully) convince the non-80s-reared editors in my office that you were a REAL phenom among us Gen X/Millennial gals, three interesting factoids from my profile of Francine Pascal, in advance of her latest, Sweet Valley Confidential:
1. Francine Pascal had never set foot in California when she birthed the Sweet Valley series. A lifelong New Yorker, she grew up in a Jewish family in Queens.
2. In 1985, Sweet Valley High was the first teen fiction to ever appear on The New York Times paperback bestsellers list, alongside John Updike and Norman Mailer.
3. In the beginning, Sweet Valley was deemed too “commercial” for many booksellers, who refused to stock it. The Times snubbed the series (despite it appearing on their bestseller list), and librarians fought to keep their stacks free of the “skimpy-looking paperbacks,” as one library journal put it. Nevertheless, the series became a case study in how to get young girls to read.
And now, all the 1980s chick-lit nostalgia to bring you back, in one tidy Daily Beast gallery.
