Excerpts

Carrie McNinch illustrates scenes from seven nonfiction books that she has checked out of the library: The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana by Tony DoKoupil, Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys Boys.: A Memoir, by Viv Albertine, Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St. James, Tinseltown, Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann, and Girl in a Band: A Memoir by Kim Gordon. These pieces cover everything from South Korean Shin ramen to the origins of the Hollywood sign to the experience of performing punk rock in Rome. -- Alekhya