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|  | Sweet Swing Blues on the Road by Frank Stewart, Wynton Marsalis
From Wynton Marsalis, one of the most intriguing artists of our time, and award-winning photographer Frank Stewart comes a spellbinding interplay of word and image. For every fan who has ever dreamed of traveling with the band, for anyone curious about the current state of America's greatest art form, here is a book that delivers the full, heady flavor of jazz life at the end of the twentieth century. Wynton Marsalis's absorbing text and Frank Stewart's stunning duotones capture the smoky intimacy of a late-night club scene, the high-voltage excitement of a concert hall premiere, the unbuttoned byplay of the band, the communion of artist and audience in the intensity of performance, interactions with fans, red-hot debate on the tour bus, and the romantic alliances that mitigate the loneliness of the road. Here are jive-talking cat daddies in the Amen Cadence, gorgeous and mysterious women in the Sweet Refrain, exotic vistas in the Bridge, and in the Chorus musicians, like the J-Master on piano, who live the music the way they play it. Swinging as hard and true as the music itself, the result is like nothing else that has ever been published on or from the world of jazz, a book that redefines what it means to be hip in today's America. AUTHOR: Frank Stewart, Wynton Marsalis
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Pasadena by David Ebershoff
On a World War I battlefield, a man named Bruder is given a California ranch by a dying soldier, and when he goes to claim it he falls in love with Linda, who lives on the premises. Their romance, however, is blighted by a terrifying experience they share, and when, years later, they reunite, new problems have surfaced, including a young woman named Rosa and Willis, the legitimate heir to the property. After the events of the story, a real-estate broker comes across the ranch and its history, and has doubts about his scheme to turn it into a housing development. AUTHOR: David Ebershoff
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs
In the third part of the Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs uses the cut-up technique to explore language systems in this continuing saga of the Nova Mob and its totalitarian hold on humanity. Known for exploding notions of plot, structure, logic, and rationality, and reducing narrative to an entirely personal, metaphorical account, Burroughs again uses science-fiction imagery to explore themes of greed, power, addiction, lust, and mediocrity. Characters morph, screech, shoot up, couple and uncouple with a surreality that zooms beyond Kafka, beyond Philip K. Dick. AUTHOR: William S. Burroughs
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Turn of the Century
255 characters or less!An end-of-the-millennium satirical novel about George and Lizzie, a New York couple who find that their marriage may be coming to an end along with the century.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Waste Land & Other Poems
Eliot's major work, The Wasteland , was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, in the end, an effective form for the expression of Eliot's view of the fragmentation and degeneration of modern life. Much of the poem's final shape was influenced by Ezra Pound, who served as Eliot's mentor in its writing--a fact which only emerged with the publication of a facsimile manuscript in 1972.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Tourmaline by Joanna Scott
Years ago, during World War II, Murray Murdoch was stationed on Elba, an island he came to love. After the war, he and his wife and their sons stay there for an extended period, trying--and failing--to make a living mining the blue tourmaline that is supposed to be prevalent there. Many years after that, one of the sons returns to the island, determined to understand the events that transpired there--and to look for tourmaline. AUTHOR: Joanna Scott
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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