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:

Rob Neyer, Power Ball (Baseball) 

Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous (Biography/Photography)

Billy Bragg, Roots, Radicals and Rockers (Music) 

William McKeen, Everybody Had an Ocean (Music) 

Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (Essays)

Dave Hickey, Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy (Essays)

Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Music)

Sarah Churchwell, Behold America (History)

Jill Lepore, These Truths (History) 

Robert Forster, Grant & I (Music)

Joseph McBride, Two Cheers for Hollywood (Movies)

Daryl Sanders, The Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Bob Dylan, Nashville and teh Making of Blonde on Blonde (Music)

Philip Zeigler, Between the Wars (History)

Ted Kotcheff, Director' Cut (Movies)

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

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)

Colin Westerbeck, Vivian Meier: The Color Work (Photography)

Jane Leavey, The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created (Baseball)

Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography (Biography/Humor)

Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical (Art)

DVDs

Wes Anderson, Isle of Dogs

Armando Ianucci, The Death of Stalin

Lucrecia Martel, Zama