New Stuff: Werner Herzog

 

New Stuff: Jörg Buttgereit

 

New Stuff: John Lurie

 

New Stuff: Sibylle Anderl - Das Universum und ich. Die Philosophie der Astrophysik

 

New Stuff: Gil Scott-Heron

New Stuff: Ta-Nehisi Coates

New Stuff: Françoise Hardy

New Stuff: David Lynch

New Stuff: George Grosz

First Lines: Gabriel García Márquez - Living to Tell the Tale

My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house.

First Lines: Claude Brown - Manchild in the Promised Land

"Run!"

First Lines: Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

I pulled back the plastic sticky tape from the cardboard box.

First Lines: Albert Jay Nock - Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

From first to last, my schooling was so irregular, so out with the whole technique of modern pedagogy, that I suppose I might fairly be said to have had no schooling at all.

First Lines: Gilda Radner - It's Always Something

Like in the romantic fairy tales I always loved, Gene Wilder and I were married by the mayor of a small village in the south of France, September 18, 1984.

First Lines: Rinker Buck - Flight of Passage

My brother dumbfounded us with his plan on a Saturday afternoon in October.

First Lines: Donald Fagen - Eminent Hipsters

The first jazz I remember hearing was in my cousin Barbara's basement.

First Lines: Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the coices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.

First Lines: Chelsea Handler - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands

I was seven years old when my sister told me she'd give me five dollars to run upstairs into my parents' room while they were having sex and take a picture.

First Lines: Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe

When this creature was twenty years of age, or somewhat more, she was married to a worshipful burgess of Lynn and was with child within a short time, as nature would have it.

First Lines: Emma Goldman - Living My Life

It was the 15th of August 1889, the day of my arrival in New York City.