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Illustration: Vulture Remember when you were a kid and you’d feel around the edges of your wrapped presents, dreading the telltale outline of a spine and pages? Well, you’re older and wiser now, and with age comes the understanding that books are the perfect gift. They’re by far the best bang for your buck when shopping for something personal. “I know you love the Rolling Stones — here’s Charlie Watts’s biography!” for example.
$45 at Amazon Buy $45 at Amazon Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } For Promotional Use Only $52 $52 If you’re the type of person who scours eBay for crew gifts, exclusive posters, and other associated movie swag, this book will make you swoon with a mixture of excitement and jealousy.
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$108 at Amazon Buy $108 at Amazon Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } ➽ The Secret to Superhuman Strength, by Alison Bechdel $17 $24 now 31% off $17 In The Secret to Superhuman Strength, cartoonist Alison Bechdel examines her lifelong pursuit of fitness and how exercise colors her relationship with her body and the world around her.
I honestly believe that Minding Your Own Damn Business is the salvation and pathway to peace that we all need. We, all of us, could stand to chill out and mind the business that minds us. If we spent half as much time concerned about our own villages, maybe the entire town wouldn’t collapse when one house was set on fire. Maybe we all would have the resources to help that house, because we’d been harnessing our own tools for months.
$21 at Amazon Buy $21 at Amazon Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } ➽ You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar $14 $28 now 50% off $14 Photo: Publisher Sisters Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar mine their experiences with racism for humor in this book of essays.
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$15 at Amazon Buy $15 at Amazon Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } ➽ Intimacies, by Katie Kitamura $16 $26 now 38% off $16 Photo: Publisher Katie Kitamura’s novels are, as Molly Young writes in her profile of the author, “crammed with ideas and deliberately devoid of catharsis.
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$16 at Amazon Buy $16 at Amazon Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } ➽ Going There, by Katie Couric $19 $30 now 35% off $19 Even before it hit shelves, Katie Couric’s gossipy memoir was making headlines.
$22 at Amazon Buy $22 at Amazon Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } Nonfiction ➽ The Book of Mac, by Donna-Claire Chesman $17 $28 now 39% off $17 In The Book of Mac, Donna-Claire Chesman explores the legacy of Mac Miller through the lens of fandom and celebrity.
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, at last, met in the NBA Finals, to the delight of the new visionary commissioner, David Stern. In keeping with the free-market embrace of the Reagan ’80s, the Los Angeles Olympics turned a profit; a New York real-estate magnate entered the national conversation via his crass capitalism and his ownership of a pro football team . This was the season that cable television roared into American homes.
$23 at Amazon Buy $25 at Bookshop Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } ➽ A Little Devil in America, by Hanif Abdurraqib $16 $27 now 41% off $16 Photo: Publisher In his most recent book of essays, poet Hanif Abdurraqib writes “in praise of Black performance” from Josephine Baker’s vaudeville shows to Beyoncé at the Super Bowl.
“FDT” represented much more than just two rappers dissing a controversial politician. A Blood and a Crip had come together to make a song repping for Mexicans — whose L.A. street culture dates back even farther than the Slausons and the Businessmen. As hard as Nip and YG went in their verses, they still made space for open-minded white folks to join the movement.
$24 at Amazon Buy Buy at Bookshop Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } ➽ Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters, by Mike Edison $17 $17 Mike Edison’s biography of Charlie Watts was published in 2019, but following his death this summer, Vulture excerpted the story everyone wanted to hear again: the time Watts punched Mick Jagger in the face.
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