Monday, August 29, 2011

Kicks Books NYC

Kicks Books (NYC) delivers the world's only hip pocket paperbacks-- select first-run originals -- perfectly packaged, portable, pocket-size perusables-- designed for the book lover... and the book lover's pocket!


Stock the growing crop of Kicks Books!


KB1 • SWEETS AND OTHER STORIES by ANDRE WILLIAMS 
The first fiction effort from Andre Williams! Sweets is a narrative which takes you for a wild ride from Chicago to Houston, New Orleans, and New York City, as a teenage girl finds herself in a family way, without a family. Forced to fend for herself, she is taken under the wing of a local pimp who entices her into prostitution. The adventures that follow are a free-for-all foray through the fantastic world of pimps and their women, funeral directors, gangs and drug running, with sidebar anecdotes that are guaranteed to appall, alarm and astonish. Extreme entries remain unedited, and none of Williams' raw drawl storytelling style has been tampered with in this standout fiction debut.


KB2 • THIS PLANET IS DOOMED: THE SCIENCE FICTION POETRY OF SUN RA
(foreword by Amiri Baraka)
THIS PLANET IS DOOMED serves up a traumatic torrent of future shock from Afrofuturist Sun Ra - deeply personal and critical commentary and unsettling advice to the people of Earth, who fail to acknowledge this planet’s role in the universe. 

These lost poems, culled from the vaults by Sun Ra Music Archive director Michael Anderson, are available for the first time in this hip pocket paperback from KICKS BOOKS. 
Poet Amiri Baraka’s estimable foreword, together with science fiction historian Bhob Stewart’s revealing introduction, set the stage for the heavy dose of the real and the unreal, which are delivered in the pages of THIS PLANET IS DOOMED.


KB3 • NICK TOSCHES - SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR SATAN
A new Nick Tosches original is set to hot-foot onto bookshelves, and into hip pockets, across America, bringing this long anticipated scorcher to fans of the inveterate scribe, who is correctly described as “the story-teller from Hell” by French magazine L’Officiel Homme.  SATAN delivers Tosches at his storytelling best, tackling the squirming roots of rock ’n’ roll history with a finesse previously reserved for night workers at a rendering plant. Nick Tosches is the author of COUNTRY, HELLFIRE, UNSUNG HEROES OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL, CUT NUMBERS, TRINITIES, DINO, THE LAST OPIUM DEN, KING OF THE JEWS, THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON, POWER ON EARTH, FRANKIE PARTS 1 AND 2 (with Richard Meltzer), CHALDEA/I DIG GIRLS, WHERE DEAD VOICES GATHER, NEVER TRUST A LOVING GOD and THE NICK TOSCHES READER.





ALSO! THE ROCCO BOOK- LAST COPIES!


LARGE FORMAT (8.5 x 11") Photo book in posh soft cover edition- these photos have not been published elsewhere, excepting a select few that were only printed scarce 1950's music publications like Sepia and Ebony Song Parade!


KICKS MAGAZINE ROCK N ROLL PHOTO ALBUM #1: THE GREAT LOST PHOTOGRAPHS OF EDDIE ROCCO  Insane collection of unknown, unpublished 1950s & 1960s snaps by R&B fotog king Eddie Rocco, staff snapper at Charlton Publications (HIT PARADER, EBONY SONG PARADE, ROCK AND ROLL, RHYTHM & BLUES, etc) and also freelanced for Fort Worth's insanely great SEPIA, home of HEP and BRONZE THRILLS! Includes early Texas pix of Esquerita plus Ruth Brown, Treniers, Roy Orbison, Dion, Yardbirds, Dylan! Gorgeous lush duotones throughout.


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