The New Sins is the longest work of prose David Byrne has ever published. It is singularly Byrnian: simultaneously profound, bizarre, hilarious, beautiful and deadly serious. In addition to his elucidation of the qualities that are considered sins in contemporary life, the book contains approximately eighty color photographs taken by the author

The New Sins / Los Nuevos Pecados

DAVID BYRNE

McSweeneys Books

McSweeney's is excited to release Songbook \226 a brand-new collection of short, personal essays by Nick Hornby on 31 of his favorite songs and songwriters. This hardcover book has 4-color illustrations by Marcel Dzama throughout and comes complete with a CD featuring 11 songs discussed within. 
Proceeds from Songbook will benefit TreeHouse and 826 Valencia. 
The TreeHouse Trust is a U.K. charity based in central London, established in 1997 to provide an educational Centre of Excellence for children with autism and related communication disorders. 
826 Valencia is a nonprofit learning center in the Mission District of San Francisco, providing free writing-based tutoring and workshops for students throughout the Bay Area. Students can drop in for individual one-on-one tutoring, register for workshops, or attend field trips through local schools and community organizations.

Songbook

Arts & Photography

DZAMA, Marcel

Hornby, Nick.

Music

For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar pretenders would find the means to put out a series of reference books aimed at children but filled with ludicrous misinformation. These books would be distributed through respectable channels and would inevitably find their way into the hands and households of well-meaning families, who would go to them for facts but instead find bizarre untruths. The books would look normal enough, but would read as if written by people who have eaten too many lead-based paint chips. 
Well, sadly, that day is upon us. We offer to you the first in a proposed series of 377 reference books, all written by a couple, Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, married 50 years and now getting their chance to twist and tickle the brains of the impressionable. 
Giraffes? Giraffes! is the first in the series, and puts forth the following novel theories: that giraffes were not part of any evolutionary chain, but came here from Neptune, by way of very long (but convenient and fast) escalators; that giraffes are expert dancers, but they become angry if you ask them about their dancing; that giraffes control over 90% of what we see in mirrors; that the Giraffe Navy is as strong as ever, contrary to recent claims in the popular press. 
This is a book to be feared. If you have young people in your life, keep it far away from them. 
Giraffes? Giraffes! is a 9" x 12" hardcover reference book, with 64 lavishly-illustrated pages, and includes a set of giraffe trading cards carefully attached to the inside back cover. Cover is blue faux-leather, de-bossed with gold foil detail and a special 4-color illustration. 
Doctor-approved for all age groups.

Giraffes? Giraffes! (The Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance)

Wasserman, Mark

Reference

The fourth issue of Wholphin will feature Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard lying to one another; the FBI mistaking an artist for a bioterrorist; Scottish 9-year-olds singing "Satan Rocks" at their country fair; an episode of the Russian "Married... with Children" re-scripted; an Academy Award nominated short; nuns; retired chimpanzees; plaster casters; and films from France, Morocco, New Zealand and the U.K. This issue will also include a bonus disc featuring the final installment of Adam Curtis¹s The Power of Nightmares. Part Three: "The Shadows in the Cave."

Wholphin No. 4

Brent (Editor) Hoff

Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine, lovingly encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes, you know, do it. Each issue of Wholphin will contain a variety of extraordinary short films, documentaries, instructional videos, foreign sitcoms, and other cinema hybrids that deserve to be seen on very expensive televisions. Recent issues have included films from Steven Soderbergh, Spike Jonze, David O'Russell, Errol Morris, and Alexander Payne, with scripts from Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), the writers of The Daily Show and Bob Odenkirk. And unique performances by Dennis Hopper, John C. Reilly, Andy Richter, Donald Trump and Miranda July, as well as a trap-jaw ant, a pregnant squid and a monkey-faced eel.

Wholphin No. 5: A DVD Magazine of Unseen Things

Brent Hoff

Photography & Video

How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators?along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists?Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.

How Music Works

Byrne,David

Humor & Entertainment

The Every: Or at Last a Sense of Order or the Final Days of Free Will

EGGERS, Dave.

Literature & Fiction

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