It’s spring, so you’re going on a Bigfoot hunt. Here are seven highly rated books to ensure your success.

Rock is dead, they say. But Steven Hyden says, Long live rock!

Greg Prato—author of The Yacht Rock Book—presents his top 10 yacht rock album covers: a cavalcade of bare chests, feathered hair, and stylized ampersands.

Five books to make your move more Jane Austen and less Stephen King.

Author Joe Hagan on Rolling Stone magazine, Jan Wenner, and the dawn of the modern celebrity.

John Hodgman tells me how long it will take my family to move on after I die. (“Sooner than you think.”)

Jim Herrington on The Climbers, his 20-year quest to photograph the pioneers and legends of mountaineering.

Marc Maron talks about his influential podcast, WTF, and his book Waiting for the Punch. Do it up.

Firestorm author Edward Struzik presents 10 of the most destructive wildfires—and their impact on policy, people, and the environment.

Seriously, don’t. Annie Leibovitz on Portraits: 2005 – 2016.

Wherein I revisit my first literary love - The Hardy Boys - and discover some weird shit.

We’re all gonna die, unless you read this.

Tell your old man just how old he is with these books for Father’s Day.

Director John Waters offers his advice for entitled brats and damaged students.

Jeff Guinn unmasks cult leader and mass murderer Jim Jones through interviews with the people who knew him: townspeople, his parishioners, and the “reverend’s” own family.

SEMI-RAD’s Brendan Leonard’s Cocktail Party Primer of some of the greatest adventure narratives.

Ian McGuire discusses his suspenseful, sometimes shocking thriller set aboard an ice-bound whaling ship.

You have to hand it to today’s hermit: despite the challenges of our crowded and noisy world, a dedicated recluse will find a way.