It began in earnest — as Touch and Go Records co-founder Corey Rusk reminisces at the beginning of the engrossing new Jesus Lizard coffee table book titled (in typical Lizard four-letter-word fashion) ...

Storied American noise rock unit The Jesus Lizard originally broke up in 1999, but reunited for a bit between 2008 and 2010, during which they played some memorable shows in NYC and elsewhere. The ...

THE CAVE AND THE ROCK (276 pp.)—Raoul C. Faure—Morrow ($3.50). The proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to George Orwell have found animals just as handy. Latest to study mankind ...

The great thing about being an obscure novelist is that it doesn’t matter what you write. “I could do pretty much whatever I wanted,” Michael Cunningham remembers fondly, “because nobody was likely to ...

How much of a role did drinking play in the Jesus Lizard universe? We could drink an awful lot. David, Duane and Mac were pretty good at not drinking too much before we played because they really want ...

Ready for a book that might make you uncomfortable? Should it ever be assigned in Florida’s K-12 public schools, Lizard People could be challenged on that basis, but it would take a parent both ...