Dear Santa

Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things I wouldn’t mind finding under my Christmas tree.  If anyone reading this would like to share their list in the comments, I’ll pass it along to St. Nick as well.

Books:

R.J. Smith, American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank (Biography/Photography)

Dave Kehr, Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade (Movies)

Kurt Anderson, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (History)

Devon Powers, Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism (Music)
Billy Bragg, Roots, Radicals and Rockers (Music) 
Daniel Wolff, Grown Up Anger (Music)

Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination (Music)

Stephen Petrus, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Music)

Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (History)

David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Cari Beauchamp, My First Time in Hollywood (Movies)

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History)

Simon Napier-Bell, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music (Music)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History)

Johnny Rogan, Byrds: Requiem for the Timeless, Volume 1 (Music)

Danny Goldberg, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea (History)

Robert Coover, Huck Out West (Fiction)

DVDs:

Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)

Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver)

Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver)

Napoleon (Abel Gance)

J’Accuse (Abel Gance)

In No Great Hurry- 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

I can also always use SD memory cards for my cameras, any brand or amount of memory but preferably class 10.