Book Sale! Everything Must Go!

Featuring the work of a bunch of great writers, and me

Normally, I would only email you fine people once a week. And there will be a regular dispatch on Wednesday. But I was down in the basement yesterday, and found a box containing copies of two of my books, both of which are out of print, and I need to get rid of them, so I’m offering them to you.

New York Is Now!: The New Wave of Free Jazz, my first book, was officially published on September 11, 2001, though I had copies a few months before that and was selling them at the Vision Festival that year. Anyway, it’s a short book about a particular community within the NYC avant-garde jazz scene of that time; it includes chapter-length profiles of David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Charles Gayle, Roy Campbell, Joe Morris, and Daniel Carter, among others. It’s also got some really nice photos by Susan O’Connor. I’ve continued to write about many of these artists in the 20+ years since, but I’m still pretty happy with this book as an introduction. I have seven copies of this.

Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs is an anthology I edited, which was published in 2007. It’s a sequel to Greil Marcus’s 1979 anthology Stranded: Rock ’n’ Roll for a Desert Island, and Marcus actually wrote the foreword, which is nice. It includes essays from John Darnielle, Greg Tate, Tom Breihan, Michaelangelo Matos, Simon Reynolds, Douglas Wolk, Geeta Dayal, Jeff Chang, Rob Harvilla, Anthony Miccio, Ned Raggett, Matt Ashare, Daphne Carr, Ian Christe, Kandia Crazy Horse, Laina Dawes, Dave Queen, Scott Seward, and Derek Taylor. (I’m not gonna tell you which albums they chose, but every essay is great.) I have fifteen copies of this.

If you want one or both of these books, I will sell them to you for $20 each, plus shipping pretty much anywhere in the world. (I think I can ship to Australia now; I couldn’t for a while.) Anyway, email me at burningambulance@gmail.com if you’re interested, and thank you.

See you on Wednesday!