There's never been a music memoir quite like Dessa's.

Dorothy Carvello's memoir is subtitled 'an A&R woman's story of surviving the music industry.'

Jessica Hopper's 'Night Moves' is as much a book of prose poetry as a memoir, about the texture of being in love with a city (Chicago) and its music scene in the first decade of this century.

A new edition marks the 50th anniversary of 'Country Music USA,' the book regarded as the genre's definitive history.

In 'She Begat This,' Joan Morgan explores the legacy of 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,' two decades after that landmark album's release.

In 'Trouble in Mind,' Clinton Heylin promises to tell readers 'what REALLY happened' during Bob Dylan's gospel years.

'Closer You Are' is an authorized biography of Robert Pollard, the famously shambolic center of Guided By Voices.

A strange and largely useless new book spotlights the long career of a post-punk legend.

Scholar Omise'eke Tinsley writes about the many doors opened by one of today's most vital artists.

In 'Strange Stars,' Jason Heller chronicles the many ways in which science fiction suffused popular music in the 1970s.