Reading is Fun: Please Take Me Off the Guest List by Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez, and Stacy Wakefield
Documenting the highs and lows of living fast, Please Take Me Off the Guest List is the latest collaboration by NYC-based artists and friends Zachary Lipez, Nick Zinner, and Stacy Wakefield. Like with the trio's previous releases -- No Seats On The Party Car, Slept in Beds, and I Hope You Are All Happy Now -- Zinner lends his photographic eye, Lipez contributes text, and Wakefield designs the book.
Shooting on tour with his band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zinner captures the seemingly endless stream of images during these peripatetic periods, including hedonistic late nights as well as ebullient, sun-dappled landscapes. The book's clever layout presents these photographs as a continuous narrative, while interspersed throughout are Lipez’s comically self-deprecating essays, chronicling everything from cocaine-induced ramblings to dreary shifts as a bookstore clerk. 
Please Take Me Off the Guest List will be officially released on October 1, but Akashic Books is offering a special limited edition pre-order for a signed copy of the book, a 7" with original songs performed by the authors, and a one-of-a-kind photograph signed and numbered Zinner. Get it here.
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Advance copies will also be available at the The Music and the Making of I'm Here Pop-Up Shop, opening this Thursday in the Gallery Space.
